Posted on 10/20/2020 7:14:54 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
In President Donald Trump’s favored narrative of how elections are won and lost, the candidate who holds the most events with the biggest crowds wins.
"Every RALLY is BOFFO," he said in a Monday tweet about his confidence of winning re-election, telling campaign staffers on a call the same day that he was now more confident of winning than he was two weeks ago, when he appeared at no campaign events while recovering from Covid-19.
Now, with two weeks to go, he heads into the final stretch of the race relying heavily on his rallies to change the dynamic of the contest - a risky strategy for a persistently unpopular candidate, and one that has failed to demonstrate success in moving voters into his column.
In fact, there are no objective indications that Trump's rallies have any relation to boosting his support, with some suggestion they are just as likely to energize his opponents' supporters as they are his own.
In a study of the 2016 race, researchers looked at fundraising on the day of a Trump event and found that in the regions where the events were held, Clinton saw a significantly greater uptick in donations.
A separate study of the 2018 midterm elections found a similar effect, where Trump’s endorsement of congressional candidates in some areas sparked a backlash effect that was ultimately detrimental to those he was backing.
While Trump has done about half the rallies over the past two months compared to the same time in 2016, in those places where he has been aggressively campaigning for re-election his rallies don’t appear to have moved the needle in his direction.
Biden hasn’t held any large, in-person rallies this year, opting for small, social distanced events to show the seriousness with which he is taking the pandemic.
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NBC...just following orders.
Things that don’t surprise me...NBC “news” campaigning against highly effective Trump rallies.
KAG2020!
What a ridiculous article.
Pettypiece
Who exactly is NBC trying to convince? Trump? Good luck with that. Trump supporters? Yeah, right... Themselves, perhaps? Bingo!
The rallies must be working incredibly well, if NBC is writing this kind of concern trolling to warn Trump against it
Is this the babylon bee?
Yeah, six months of these rally’s and Trump supporters are dropping like flies.
Hey, how are all those Sturgis attendees doing? What about that big Memorial day thing with all the people in the pool at lake of the ozarks (or something like that). How’d they do?
We know how the president, Tom Hanks, and many others did.
My take away from this is that the virus is pretty harmless, but ventilators can kill you.
Their scared to death.
They’re trying to settle the feeling of impending doom among the Biden/Harris supporters.
NBC IS Russian disinformation
The National News Media is just ticked that Trump doesn’t lean on them to “help” his campaign, like the good little RINOS!
Trump has given more spine to the GOP than I can remember in my life!
Yup....LMAO...That's how he got elected as a non-politician!..by being so unpopular.....
Do these people actually believe what they write????..or worse yet..expect us to......SMH .....CONcast is right!
Shannon Pettypiece (now there’s a name [not her fault though]) — writes out of her butt it would appear. Her main drift is that the rallies are having a negative effect on DJT’s poll #s.
Gotta give her high marks for dreaming, though.
Just the enemy handing out advice again. Reminds me of the movie Little Big Man
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“Trump is campaigning and this could be a mistake for him”
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