The size of Trump's rally crowds: Has there been an objective report on them?

[Nexus2]

I've heard/read from several different sources that they've been getting steadily smaller until recently I began hearing they were actually getting larder from Non-Fox/Non-WH sources including Andrea Mitchell at one point (!?).

That was disturbing to say the least.

What's the real deal about them if its been lain out anywhere?

[samnsara]

1. im totally convinced they are packed with paid actors

[Nexus2]

4. I have wondered if many of his fans are plants or the equivalent of 'Deadhead'

Drifting from performance to performance to hear the old hits over and over. But he's doing so many its hard to imagine how they'd keep up.

[Maeve]

12. Saw an interview with on guy who said it was his 32nd or so rally

He finds tRump entertaining. Saw several charter buses at the Circleville Ohio rally Saturday--they do bus them in!

[dawg day]

6. The Amish men and Catholic nuns behind him recently

were obviously actors. It's just absurd.

[Mariana]

21. He still has tens of millions of Trve Believers.

I don't know why you think he couldn't scrounge up a few thousand of them to attend a rally.

[David__77]

2. Why disturbed?

Even a small political party with a highly ideologized core can mobilize big crowds. There are a lot of people in this country.

[Nexus2]

5. Anything that hints of positive news for that 'man' worries me.

[Demsrule86]

3. No it wasn't disturbing at all. Votes are what matters.

[Solomon]

7. The Florida rally did look to me to be a lot bigger than usual.

[GoCubsGo]

8. They have been a bit larger, but a fair bit of it is repeaters.

Many of these loons follow him from rally to rally. He also gets a lot of cultists who drive in from neighboring states. His rallies in Nevada were like that. A fat chunk of the crowds drove in from California and Arizona. They might be bigger, but they're having to draw from a much, much wider population.

[moonscape]

15. Great. Bringing more cvid back to CA. n/t

[SKKY]

9. Wasn't there a story recently about a good number of them being paid actors???

Like, a Trump supporter was paying to bus folks in and paying them to "participate"?

[Nexus2]

13. I've only seen some 'questionable' figures in the crowds or pointed out online recently.

I did read some accusations awhile back that there were plants in the audience that stir things up, start chants, etc, like undercover hypemen.

[doc03]

10. I don't know about the rallies but his supporters are even more energized than in 2016

in Ohio. They have those stupid flags and shrines built to Trump in their yards. Every week end their caravan
tours the valley. That worries me because I do know some people that have turned for Trump. I worry that many of those new
voters may be Trump supporters.

[Nexus2]

16. Yeah, it might be overly cynical, even paranoid but I do feel some worry about the new voters.

But we'll see on election day.

[Codeine]

11. Who cares how big his rallies are?

Senator Sanders had some big-ass rallies in the last two cycles as well. How’s he doing?

[DeminPennswoods]

14. MSNBC, iirc, showed a picture of a

Trump rally from a distance. I think the report was related to crowds with neither masks nor distancing on Deadline:WH. Anyway, Wallace or one of the pundits said the crowd was tightly packed to make it look bigger on close up shots. You could easily see all the open space on either side and behind the stage. It was a decent crowd, but closer to hundreds than thousands.

[Nexus2]

17. Thanks, I was wondering if there some camera tricks employed along with Trump's delusions of

grandeur. It so strange how much of his staff/followers time seems to be devoted to catering to his mental issues and delusions.

[DeminPennswoods]

22. Both sides use these visual tricks

I did a little volunteering for Kerry/Edwards in Philly. That was also Sen Casey's first campaign for Senate (vs Santorum). Anyway, Casey was going to be interviewed on one of the news channels, so about 10-12 of us were asked to stand directly behind Casey, hold signs, make noise and make it seem like we were scores more supporters than our actual numbers since the camera shot wouldn't show all the open space behind and around us.

[Statistical]

18. Who cares? Thankfully the media is mostly ignoring it.

Talk of "huge crowds" in 2016 only helped Trump.

[Ms. Toad]

19. Per the police report in Nebraska -

25,000 people were bussed in to the rally in Omaha.

[Nexus2]

20. Thanks!