Has anyone gone to a Trump rally in the past few months?
What is the process for “checking in” once you get there?
Do you really have to get tickets?
Suppose you just want to hang out in the overflow area and watch the jumbo tron and have no interest in trying to get into the main event?
Can you bring lawn chairs?
Any info would be appreciated.
Yes, Monday in Tucson.
What is the process for “checking in” once you get there?
Stand/walk in mile-long line, and then go through metal detectors as if you were at an airport.
Do you really have to get tickets?
No, though they do give out wrist bands before you get to the metal detectors.
Suppose you just want to hang out in the overflow area and watch the jumbo tron and have no interest in trying to get into the main event?
There was no jumbo tron inside the venue. At the last part of the line, where the crowd winds through barriers outside the gate, there was a very large TV screen.
Can you bring lawn chairs?
You can't bring anything larger than a medium-sized purse into the venue.
You can bring a lawn chair if you want to use it while you're waiting. By the time I got there (about 90 minutes before the scheduled start) the line was moving pretty continuously so there wasn't much opportunity to sit. If you bring anything of size with you, you have to leave it on the ground outside the venue and hope that no one else decides to take it. (Perhaps a safe bet with Trump fans.)
Any info would be appreciated.
Anything else?
don’t know much, but I did see an old guy sitting in a lawn chair waiting to get into a rally.