Democratic Occasion presidential candidate Kamala Harris and working mate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz held a rally in Glendale, Arizona outdoors of Phoenix on the Desert Diamond Area Friday night time that was solely partially crammed, with massive sections blocked off. However that didn’t cease Harris from mendacity that her rally was “the most important in Arizona political marketing campaign historical past.”
The Desert Diamond Area has a capability of 20,000. The Harris marketing campaign dubiously informed reporters attendance was 15,000 when movies present about one-third of the sector’s seating was blocked off within the higher deck and two membership degree sections.
Whereas 12,000, and even the claimed 15,000 can be a very good crowd, it isn’t the report and never even near capability.
In 2016, then candidate Donald Trump held a rally in Prescott Valley, Arizona that drew 20,000 supporters in accordance with police.
Pictures and video posted by reporters and the Harris-Walz marketing campaign present large black curtains blocking hundreds of empty seats virtually fully across the higher deck of the sector together with empty membership degree sections.
Video posted by Jessica Swarner with the Copper Courier taken from the one open to seating higher deck part exhibits that three higher deck sections have been both curtained off or left empty:
The view from the 200 degree of Desert Diamond Area in Glendale on the Harris Walz rally. @CopperCourier pic.twitter.com/IDJsvaMpFg
— Jessica Swarner (@jessica_swarner) August 9, 2024
Harris: “About final night time: Some are calling our rally the most important in Arizona political marketing campaign historical past.”
About final night time: Some are calling our rally the most important in Arizona political marketing campaign historical past. pic.twitter.com/f1jlv498mw
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) August 10, 2024
Walz boasted in regards to the measurement of the gang throughout his speech:
Walz: , it’s not as if anyone cares about crowd sizes or something. pic.twitter.com/ML1XXGfRqY
— Acyn (@Acyn) August 10, 2024
The marketing campaign informed reporters attendance was 15,000:
Governor Walz takes the stage. The Harris marketing campaign estimates the gang at 15,000.
“It’s not like anybody cares about crowd measurement or something,” Walz laughs pic.twitter.com/yQwvGBQ6wv
— Natalie Model (@NatalieABrand) August 10, 2024
Excerpt from the Related Press, October 6, 2016:
Police estimate turnout for Trump occasion in Arizona at 20,000
Prescott Valley police estimate as many as 20,000 folks confirmed up for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s marketing campaign rally in an enviornment within the Yavapai County neighborhood on Tuesday.
Roughly 7,500 folks have been allowed contained in the Occasion Middle and police Sgt. Jason Kaufman says that left an estimated 13,000 folks left outdoors.
Video posted by a Harris-Walz marketing campaign staffer exhibits the higher decks of the sector blocked off by large black curtains:
The biggest crowd of the marketing campaign to this point out right here in Arizona, letting @KamalaHarris know they’re together with her.
However as @Tim_Walz mentioned, who cares about crowd measurement? pic.twitter.com/OTPXFEoCzc
— Daniel Wessel (@da_wessel) August 10, 2024
Video posted by ASU journalism pupil Emily Holshouser exhibits the higher deck and membership part of the sector blocked off.
I’m on the Kamala Harris rally in Glendale, Arizona as we speak, the place I’ve been speaking to younger voters (and experiencing my first presidential marketing campaign occasion). Chappell Roan blasting on the audio system, with folks doing the Sizzling to Go dance within the viewers. Very excessive power. pic.twitter.com/OQF9Cg4rry
— Emily Holshouser (@emilyytayylor) August 9, 2024
A 360 diploma view posted by the marketing campaign exhibits the blocked off sections:
Arizona is fired up for @KamalaHarris and @Tim_Walz pic.twitter.com/aPTgSFcZ7q
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) August 9, 2024
Information retailers like The Guardian falsely reported the sector was “packed”:
Harris and Walz whip up crowd at packed Phoenix rally – however ‘we’re the underdog’ https://t.co/cLAnVz5eVC
— Guardian US (@GuardianUS) August 10, 2024
And the Harris marketing campaign posted a phony comparability picture from Trump’s rally in Billings, Montana taken effectively earlier than the gang crammed that enviornment to capability with no sections blocked off.
In the meantime at @realdonaldtrump’s rally… https://t.co/uZ73w1de7D pic.twitter.com/lhCZvG4KxF
— Kamala HQ (@KamalaHQ) August 10, 2024
The Republican Occasion’s RNC Analysis famous the rally was by invitation solely (did they get 6,000 rejects?) and that ID was required to enter:
IT’S ALL FAKE: Loopy Kamala’s rally in Arizona tonight is “invitation solely.”
Why wouldn’t they need an occasion open to the general public? Except… pic.twitter.com/soajXLLE9K
— RNC Analysis (@RNCResearch) August 10, 2024
