{"id":214500,"date":"2016-09-26T17:37:35","date_gmt":"2016-09-26T21:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/172.24.32.11\/daily\/2016\/09\/26\/trump_s_crowds_does_size_matter_\/"},"modified":"2016-09-26T17:37:35","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T21:37:35","slug":"trump_s_crowds_does_size_matter_","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2016\/09\/26\/trump_s_crowds_does_size_matter_\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Crowds: Does Size Matter?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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RUSH: You know the stories about the size of the crowds that go to Trump rallies versus the practically invisible crowds that visit Hillary rallies.  I\u2019m guilty of this, too.  The rule of thumb in discussing that is to say, “Don\u2019t attach too much to it.”  A lot of candidates who lost in landslides drew huge crowds, the story goes.  That is not data.  Massive crowds showing up at a campaign rally is not an indication of how they\u2019re gonna vote at all.  It\u2019s not even an indication if they\u2019re gonna vote.  It\u2019s nothing more than anecdotal.  By anecdotal, means people telling stories to each other.  It\u2019s not rooted in data.  Therefore there\u2019s nothing you can project from it. <\/p>\n

But it\u2019s gone on long enough now, like Romney\u2019s big crowds happened the last five days of his campaign, in 2012.  And that\u2019s why people thought, maybe there\u2019s something happening here.  ‘Cause Romney had not been drawing big crowds.  Romney\u2019s not the kind of guy that does.  He\u2019d been drawing loyal crowds, Republicans that wanted to be elected, but he wasn\u2019t drawing star type crowds until the last five days, and then 30,000, 25,000 and people said, “You know, something might be happening here.”  It turned out nothing was happening.  The crowds didn\u2019t mean anything.  Obama won and won handily and the crowds didn\u2019t. <\/line><\/p>\n

But with this, it\u2019s been so consistent.  Hillary can\u2019t draw 300 people.  Hillary can\u2019t draw 2,000 people.  Whatever the event, the crowd that shows up at a Hillary event is minuscule, particularly compared to Trump\u2019s.  They are not energetic, and it\u2019s not personal.  The people that show up are not there because they\u2019re deeply personally invested in Hillary, they love her, they want to be like her, they want to be with her.  It\u2019s not that.  It\u2019s party loyalty or it\u2019s they\u2019re being paid to show up, who knows, or they have paid to show up, it could be either way. <\/p>\n

On the Trump side, it\u2019s gone on long enough now, since last summer, every Trump rally is a near, if not full, sellout.  Every Trump rally is loud and raucous and is made up of people personally committed to Trump.  And there\u2019s been months and months and months of it.  And as that has happened, the people on the left who would be frightened by it, would be worried, “Oh, my gosh, look at all that energy and we don\u2019t see any,” it\u2019s not helping. People are not showing up in greater numbers at Hillary rallies to try to offset what\u2019s happening at Trump rallies. <\/p>\n

Now, the Breitbart people have done some statistical analysis with numbers here.  One week of Trump rallies drew over 26,000 people.  It was less than a thousand.  It was hundreds of people that showed up at two different Clinton rallies. “Donald Trump saw many thousands of supporters gather at several rallies this week, far outpacing his opponent, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, who again cancelled one of her few campaign events.<\/p>\n

“A conservative estimate of those who attended Trump\u2019s rallies added to those who attended his ‘America-First\u2019 energy plan presentation total over 26,000 for the week. That\u2019s compared to the around 700 that gathered for Clinton events in Philadelphia and Orlando. Those numbers are based on news reports,” detailed later here in the story.  “Both made stops in Pennsylvania and Florida. Trump held two events in North Carolina and Clinton postponed a fundraiser in that state.”<\/p>\n

So this has been going on long enough now that maybe — it\u2019s still not data, and it still is anecdotal, but there has been plenty of time for this energy for Trump to wear off.  The rule of thumb is that at a Trump rally where you know what you\u2019re gonna get; you\u2019re gonna get Trump.  So after a while you would expect the crowds to either remain the same or start to fade away a little, not because of any less excitement, just it\u2019s been going on for so long.  Trump\u2019s crowds are continuing to build.  The enthusiasm for Trump is continuing to build. <\/line><\/p>\n

There isn\u2019t any enthusiasm for Hillary outside of the perfunctory and the required, and that is there\u2019s a Democrat running for president, and so people are gonna vote for the Democrat and are gonna show up at rallies. But it isn\u2019t personal, not like it is with the crowds showing up for Trump.  Hillary just does not have that effect on people. <\/p>\n

And what happens at these rallies is also crucial because in many of Trump\u2019s cases, they\u2019re televised, and many more people than just those in attendance see it.  So Trump\u2019s out there talking to real voters. He\u2019s talking to real Americans about real things that matter to them.  He even went to a small town, he drew, what was it, three or four thousand people in a town of a population of 800 in North Carolina. <\/p>\n

You might say, “Why go there?  Why go to a town with a population of 800?”  Well, why go to Connecticut if you\u2019re Trump?  He goes to these places to get there.  He goes to these places \u2019cause he loves doing this.  He likes meeting these people and he likes going places where people would otherwise not be able to see one of these rallies.  He\u2019s breaking every rule that\u2019s out there. <\/p>\n

Practically every rule in the election handbook that is written and monitored by the Washington establishment, he\u2019s violating every important rule.  And nobody knows how to deal with it.  And while Trump\u2019s out doing all this, she\u2019s holed up at the family compound in Chappaqua doing who knows what.  But she is not out making her case.  She\u2019s not out building her support base.  She\u2019s not out validating the supporters she already has. <\/p>\n

That\u2019s an important factor, too.  You got people supporting you.  You have to go out and validate their reason.  You have to show up and make it worth their while.  You have to convey that it\u2019s a just and proper decision they\u2019re making.  Hillary\u2019s not giving her supporters a chance to do any of that because she\u2019s not even having rallies anymore, one or two a week.  And we\u2019re told it\u2019s because she has to conserve her energy.<\/line><\/p>\n

She has been getting prepared for 11 days for this debate.  And now we learn that the primary thing that she\u2019s been doing is to get her people to get hold of the media to pressure Lester Holt to actually be the one debating Trump and not her.  Well, that\u2019s what they mean when they\u2019re demanding that Lester Holt fact checks him.  Isn\u2019t that her job?  They want Lester Holt to debate Trump. <\/p>\n

Now, back to an example I gave in the previous hour.  Imagine, if you will, an entire debate of things like what Candy Crowley did to Mitt Romney.  Well, I have been reminded — and it\u2019s a good point — do you remember the crowd reaction when Candy Crowley stepped in and defended Obama and told Mitt Romney that he was wrong, that Obama had done whatever it was, do you remember the crowd reaction?  It was almost standing ovation applause.  And I had forgotten that, but when I was reminded, I had to admit, yep, that\u2019s what happened. <\/p>\n

The studio audience or the arena audience, wherever that debate was, roundly supported — there were very few, if any, boos for Candy Crowley.  I don\u2019t know how they stack the audience at these debates.  I don\u2019t know what steps candidates can take to get a preponderance of their supporters in there. The no-applause rule is gonna be broken, you know that countless times during this debate.  So we will just see. <\/p>\n

I still think if Lester Holt does come across as the one that\u2019s debating Trump, if every time Trump opens his mouth and Lester Holt demands that he prove it, Lester Holt acts as fact checker, I\u2019m telling you, folks, the way things are trending, Hillary cannot have surrogates win this for her.  Lester Holt cannot get her elected president.  She\u2019s got to do it.  She\u2019s not the incumbent.  You know, Obama had an incumbency to rely on.  She\u2019s not.  We\u2019ll just see.  <\/p>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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