{"id":122334,"date":"2024-11-05T12:44:58","date_gmt":"2024-11-05T05:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=122334"},"modified":"2024-11-05T12:44:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-05T05:44:58","slug":"empty-seats-become-a-more-common-sight-at-trumps-final-rallies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=122334","title":{"rendered":"Empty seats become a more common sight at Trump&#8217;s final rallies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>PITTSBURGH, Pa. (AP) \u2014 <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a><\/span> has spent nearly a decade bragging about his crowds. Lately, he\u2019s been making the same boasts to swaths of empty seats.<\/p>\n<p>In his third presidential bid, Trump for the first time is facing an opponent who stages her own massive rallies, calling further attention to the fact that his crowds, however enthusiastic they are, sometimes have failed to fill large venues and often thinned out as he spoke.<\/p>\n<p>In North Carolina this weekend, the former president and Republican nominee spoke at First Horizon Coliseum in Greensboro, where the lower level of the 22,000-seat arena remained unfilled, with the upper level blocked off altogether. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve had the biggest rallies in history of any country. Every rally\u2019s full,\u201d he falsely claimed anyway. \u201cYou don\u2019t have any seats that are empty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He began Monday, the eve of the election, in Raleigh, North Carolina, where a late-arriving crowd came close to filling the venue but left a smattering of empty seats. In Reading, Pennsylvania, Trump took the stage in Santander Arena, where there were sections of empty seats in the 7,200-seat arena. The campaign hung a large American flag near the back of the arena, blocking the view of several seating sections that remained unfilled.<\/p>\n<p>He then went to PPG Paints Arena in Pittsburgh, where the upper level seating was again blocked off. <\/p>\n<p>The former president\u2019s crowds still routinely number in the thousands and they roared regularly as he spoke. And his supporters this year remain engaged enough that his final event in Grand Rapids, Michigan, was inside a packed arena even though it started after 12:15 a.m. Tuesday, nearly two hours late. Some rallygoers told a reporter they arrived at 7 a.m. the day before.<\/p>\n<p>But the occasional scenes of empty seats offered a notable contrast to Democratic nominee Kamala Harris\u2019 biggest events this fall \u2014 and to the volume and vibe of Trump\u2019s crowds eight years ago when he sought and won the presidency for the first time. <\/p>\n<p>To be sure, crowd sizes aren\u2019t necessarily predictive of electoral outcomes. Still, Trump has been drawing smaller crowds in the closing stretch of the campaign than he did in previous races, especially his first campaign, when his mass events became a political phenomenon. Trump\u2019s crowds this fall also have often thinned out as the former president\u2019s <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ap.org\/news-highlights\/spotlights\/2024\/inside-the-weave-how-donald-trumps-rhetoric-has-grown-darker-and-windier\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">long stump speeches<\/a><\/span> extend into their second hour. <\/p>\n<p>People routinely leave while he\u2019s speaking, sometimes in droves, after waiting several hours for a spot. <\/p>\n<p>There are reasons why some might be fatigued. <\/p>\n<p>Trump has been returning again and again to the same battleground states, sometimes speaking in the same places and even the same venues. Trump\u2019s smaller Greensboro crowd, for example, came eight days after he had campaigned in the same city. <\/p>\n<p>He also often runs late, starting <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/trump-joe-rogan-austin-immigration-texas-election-7ed6b971a86c69ed4344205ab2db668b\">three hours behind recently<\/a><\/span> in Traverse City, Michigan, after taping an interview with podcaster Joe Rogan.<\/p>\n<p>But whatever the explanation, the former reality television star and consummate showman clearly remains invested in the performative aspect of presidential politics and obviously concerned that Harris, unlike Democrats Hillary Clinton in 2016 or Joe Biden in 2020, can match and even exceed his signature campaign tactic. Harris, for example, recently filled the large coliseum in Greensboro. <\/p>\n<p>Democrats have embraced the dynamics as a way to get under Trump\u2019s skin. Former President Barack Obama, the last national figure before Trump and Harris to make mass rallies a key part of his campaigns, noted Trump\u2019s \u201cweird obsession\u201d with crowd size during his speech at the Democratic National Convention in August. Obama added mocking hand gestures about size that evoked Trump\u2019s own comments during his first campaign on hand sizes and his implication that they reflected his manhood. <\/p>\n<div class=\"Infobox\" data-module=\"\" data-gtm-region=\"The 2024 election is here. This is what to know: Complete coverage: The latest Election Day updates from our reporters. Election results: Know the latest race calls from AP as votes are counted across the U.S. Voto a voto: Sigue la cobertura de AP en espa\u00f1ol de las elecciones en EEUU. News outlets around the world count on the AP for accurate U.S. election results. Since 1848, the AP has been calling races up and down the ballot. Support us. Donate to the AP.\" data-align-center=\"\">\n<div class=\"Infobox-items RichTextBody\">\n<p><b>The 2024 election is here. This is what to know:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>News outlets around the world count on the AP for accurate U.S. election results. Since 1848, the AP has been calling races up and down the ballot. Support us. <\/i><span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/donate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Donate to the AP<\/i><\/a><\/span><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Harris invoked crowd sizes during her <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/video\/kamala-harris-donald-trump-political-debates-national-national-22d4ce0e1fdc4a95a715ee24fbd47c2b\">lone debate<\/a><\/span> against Trump, one of many times that she knocked the former president off course during their 90-minute exchange. She urged people to attend Trump\u2019s rallies as a way of understanding his time had passed. <\/p>\n<p>Trump on Monday night in Pittsburgh directed barbs toward <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/beyonce-kamala-harris-6b3f928bb7fd5a705f32ac3d04b89ed8\">Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s appearance<\/a><\/span> at a recent Harris rally that drew more than 30,000 people. The megastar introduced Harris in Houston but did not perform. <\/p>\n<p>Harris has campaigned with a bevy of <span class=\"LinkEnhancement\"><a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/harris-trump-beyonce-celebrities-2024-presidential-election-3964ecb38c8355dade2a0d3dd19d624f\">celebrities and pop stars<\/a><\/span> in the campaign\u2019s final days, ending with a Philadelphia rally featuring Oprah Winfrey and Lady Gaga. The star of Trump\u2019s show, meanwhile, remains the former president. <\/p>\n<p>In recent days, he\u2019s shown a wistful side both about the rallies and the crowds coming to see him \u2014 however big they really are. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have one left,\u201d he said in Pittsburgh, wistfully looking ahead to his late-night event in Grand Rapids, Michigan. \u201cAnd remember, the rallies are the most exciting thing. They\u2019ll never be rallies like this. This is never going to happen again.\u201d \u2014\u2014<\/p>\n<p>Barrow reported from Washington. Jonathan J. Cooper in Phoenix and Joey Cappelletti in Grand Rapids, Michigan contributed to this report. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>\n  window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n      FB.init({\n              appId : '870613919693099',\n          xfbml : true,\n          version : 'v2.9'\n      });\n  };\n  (function(d, s, id){\n     var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n     if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n     js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n     js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n     fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n   }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/donald-trump-crowd-size-beyonce-kamala-harris-dfba0b3cdfa3b92009d7ed7bc938157e\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PITTSBURGH, Pa. (AP) \u2014 Donald Trump has spent nearly a decade bragging about his crowds. Lately, he\u2019s been making the same boasts to swaths of empty seats. In his third &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=122334\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}