“Do you seriously think that out of a million tickets the campaign says were requested, Republicans couldn’t get 20,000 to show up?”
For part of the answer, see this article:
https://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jun/20/anti-trump-protesters-interfere-presidents-rally-f/
Lots of scammers out there registered for tickets. Turns out it wasn’t just the Dems but the “Never-Trumpers” through the “Lincoln Project,”
led in part by Steve Schmidt, former campaign manager for John McCain in 2008.
Lincoln Project was also co-founded by George Conway. One, huge POS.
So some SJW anti-Trump teens played follow the leader and got a whole bunch of tickets, probably because they thought it would hold a seat for them.
Oh, bullshit. The Trump campaign could have easily handed out 20K tickets to “friendlies” or matched tickets requests with known supporters.
Just a colossal failure of organization by the Trump campaign. The “1 million ticket requests” talking point backfired on them bigtime.
Be smarter next time, Trump campaign.