Posted on 07/02/2023 2:56:57 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
We tend to forget but prior to candidate Donald J. Trump, in 2015, it was very rare to see presidential rallies with more than a few thousand attendees.
Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders each had sporadic big venue rallies at mostly schools and universities where attendance would top 10,000; however, no one consistently has rallies anywhere near the scale of Trump rallies.
According to the Greenville News, citing the police chief in South Carolina today, over 50,000 people showed up to support President Donald Trump in Pickens. That is a massive crowd of people traveling to one town venue.
(Via Daily Mail) – If anyone thought Donald Trump’s legals woes would eat into his public support in red state America then no one thought to tell the people of Pickens, South Carolina.
Its population of 3,300 was swollen by thousands more who crammed into its main street to see the former president hold his first rally since being being charged with mishandling classified documents. Supporters behind him waved ‘witch hunt’ signs as he described how he had been charged under the Espionage Act.
‘Me? the espionage act?’ he said, describing how it was a an ‘act for crimes so heinous’ that the death penalty was needed.
‘it’s one of the most vicious legal theories ever put in a court of law. there’s never been anything like this,’ he added.
Insiders said the words were not the most important thing. The size of the crowd was what mattered about the day, making it a huge show of support.
The tiny city of Pickens closed its streets for the former president, packing in supporters who had traveled from North Carolina and Georgia, as well as South Carolina.
They stood on Main Street, between the county courthouse and Biven’s hardware store.
They heard Trump describe how as president he had ‘absolute right’ to declassify documents. And he said he was changing up his language because of the way he had been forced to appear in court earlier this month.
‘Now the gloves are off from that standpoint, what they’ve done is so terrible,’ he said.
‘So I’ll speak differently than I would have three weeks ago, because you never heard me use this kind of language. I wouldn’t want to out respect for our country and for the office.
‘But we really have no choice. These people are sick. They’re sick people.’
And he called special counsel Jack Smith a ‘thug’ for the way he had been pursued. (read more)
This is just the overflow of people wanting to get into the venue to see Donald Trump in South Carolina . The Left becomes more terrified every time they see this display and immediately look to the DOJ to find news charges to indict Trump for. Democrats will never find a way to… pic.twitter.com/d7upeBYgOq
— ꧁༒☬ 𝔹𝕦𝕕 ☬༒꧂ (@bud_cann) July 1, 2023
WOAH
Tens of thousands of Magadonians have assembled at dawn outside of Trump’s July 4th celebration in South Carolina
This is insane pic.twitter.com/UZLgkhvjUj
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) July 1, 2023
But Joe Biden had two rallies in AZ and nobody showed up, yet he clearly won the State. Fox even called it with only 3% of the votes counted. /s
Mmmmmmm......I cant wait till Biden has his rally.
He got (gag) 81 million votes......should be quite a crowd........snx.
I musta missed it on the “evening news.” I’ll tune in tonite to see if they covered it.
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really a joke how some of you take an old saying and fk it up trying to be cool...
Sad thing is. Media will kill him And Demx will cheat
“..I cant wait till Biden has his rally.” he won’t even Primary debate. I hope RFK Jr, pushes JB into a ‘corner’, insisting on a debate.
The professional class lawyer politicians from both parties hate Trump rallies because none of them can draw tens of thousands like Trump, with hundreds of thousands viewing streaming video on line and do this as a matter of routine.
And this is the reason people like DeSantis have barbeques or small venue townhalls with donors in more or less private settings. And these small townhalls can easily be rigged with planted, staged, rehearsed questions and the audience can be seeded with their own people etc..
Go Trump!
I wonder how many people Trump would attract if he held a rallies in the 6 problematic states that he supposedly “lost” in 2020 ….
RE: “ I cant wait till Biden has his rally.”
I’m still scratching my head trying to figure out how he got the most votes in American history without being able to draw a few hundreds in his rally even with Bon Jovi on board, and his spending most of his time hiding in his basement…
Hard to get the dead and those invisible ones living in vacant lots to attend.
The Slimes will report it as a couple dozen.
Almost what one would see on an autumn afternoon at Death Valley (and that’s not a put-down).
I was there... I’m a below the knee amputee.... I was treated like royalty.... The wife and I got there around 1PM and the crowd was huge.. I asked a staffer if I could bring in a lawn chair.. he said No, but escorted us to the grand stand behind the podium..... looking out on that crowd was awesome
In before the MSM finds the one angle where it looks empty.
That is so cool! Bless you.
The one in Butler had 60,000+ and the one at the Latrobe airport about the same.
When the polls closed he was up by 700,000 votes.
No f**kin' way PDJT, legitimately, lost PA.
100%
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