How many of the 15,000 were paid to be there?
I’ve lived in both cities.
The Mpls rally did not need any paid attendees or union thugs to be a success. There are 150,000+ far left liberals living within a few mile radius of the stadium. Getting less than 10% of them to show up to see their god is not any great accomplishment or sign of general population support.
But, getting much bigger numbers of honest, hard-working, usually-subdued normal Americans to show up in the almost-exclusively liberal city of Wash. D.C. is NOT a small accomplishment. And IS a sign of discontent amongst the masses.