Posted on 02/04/2016 11:55:32 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
There's a reason why Donald Trump is taking his loss in Iowa so hard - it's been devastating to his national standing. His standing in the polls might already be falling like a rock, and now it appears that the rolling concert tour that was his national campaign might be coming to an end. Now comes pretty convincing evidence that his crowds are shrinking, and he's trying to hide it (poorly).
Trump was in Little Rock last night, and he tweeted a picture that seemed to show a typical Trump full house, and that specifically claimed that the crowd was a "record" and that it was "12K."
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
THANK YOU to everyone in Little Rock, Arkansas tonight! A record crowd of 12K. #Trump2016https://www.facebook.com/DonaldTrump/posts/10156603612740725:0 .. 8:31 PM - 3 Feb 2016 Little Rock, AR, United States
The problem, as IJ Review notes, is that the total capacity for the arena where Trump held this event, including floor capacity, is 10,195. So in order for this count to be accurate, this would truly have been an absolutely astounding overflow crowd. The only problem is, it wasn't. Media was there at the event, and documented how, during Trump's speech, large sections of the seating were completely empty and the floor was at most half full.
Here is video that was taken during the event, you can clearly hear that Trump is speaking, and the arena looks at least half empty.
As the Daily Mail notes, Trump at one point claimed that the Fire Marshal said it was a record and they were turning people away. Trump asked the Fire Marshal to come up on stage and confirm it for the benefit of the media, and the "Fire Marshal" allegedly obliged. The only problem is that the man who came on stage was not the fire marshal, but rather the general manager of the state fair.
Of course, the bigger question might well be, what the heck is Donald Trump doing in Arkansas in the first place? Is he really so sure that he will win New Hampshire that he has no concern over New Hampshire's historically late break? Or the optics of being off across the rest of the country while the rest of the field is camped in state?
Sorry, posted too fast. It was probably half empty because Trump was 2 hours late. People left.
The Establishment drive against Trump is not for Cruz. It wants Rubio at best, and if it doesn’t get what it wants, it will support Hillary directly or through inaction.
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Cruz and/or Trump 2016
Even at 10k it is well over what all the others get except for maybe an occasional kooky Bernie crowd.
Isn't that the truth! Can I steal that for my tagline?
If Trump’s crowds truly were falling, that would be the time the media would start to pan the camera around.
Loves him some Bernie? Boy, you Trump fans complain about lies, and you post that crap? What he SAID was that he agrees, with Sanders, that Washington is corrupt but that Sanders’ solution is nuts.
“In diagnosing the problem, I agree in many ways with Bernie Sanders,†he said, according to Politico‘s Katie Glueck. “I enjoy watching the media folks. They’re very puzzled when they say, ‘Gosh, Ted, you sound exactly like Bernie, saying it’s all big money and lobbyists and corruption.’ Well, you know what? That’s right. It is. Washington is corrupt.â€
He went on to say that the real division in politics is not between Republicans or Democrats, but between career officials in Washington and their constituents before concluding that the only difference between him and Sanders was their proposed solutions to the mutually agreed-upon problem.
Sanders, by Cruz’s description, wants to fix Washington by creating “even more Washington,†which, he said, “is nuts.â€
Whomever the Dems tell us they would like to face, that is the candidate they fear the most. Whomever the Dems tell us they fear or dislike the most, that is the candidate they want to run against.
How many did Cruz have in Arkansas last night? None. Funny. I do know that he had a coffee house that he stopped by with 20 people so I can see why you would laugh at Trump getting a nice large number supporting him.
Keep it up. Maybe we can get Cruz out of the Senate in 2018.
A ringing endorsement indeed (toilet bowl ring, that is).
And Trump has a huge anti-Cruz cabal here as well. Mutually assured destruction brought on by Trump’s unnecessary deployment of 6 months of Democrat style attacks on his fellow republicans. This tactic has both severely damaged his republican competition as well as himself. Trump’s republican legacy will be ensuring an establishment candidate receives the republican nomination. It may well also include handing the general election to the democrats.
“Amnesty PAC $$ paying very well, these days, no?”
That’s what ALL this is about...from Levin & Rush to Red state and the rest of the sold out GOP who are happy to be owned by open border Grover Norquist as long as they get their 30 pieces of silver. We MUST start boycotting the sponsors of them all.
Get back to policy? What policy?
Never mind I looked at the by line. It is an article from the nutty Leon Wolf. The coo coo bird.
He has policy?
You’ve got mail....
[snip] Rubio is the candidate with the real momentum in the race. He’s up 8 points from his 13% standing in our poll right before Christmas. Beyond that he’s seen a large spike in his favorability rating— it’s improved a net 28 points from +15 at 49/34 to +43 at 64/21. That ties him with Ben Carson as being the most broadly popular candidate on the Republican side. [/snip]
Hint: Jimmy Carter.
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