David Corn: "This is what a half-empty Trump rally looks like in Reading, Penn., a day before Election Day."

[Miles Archer]

Link to tweet

David Corn
@DavidCornDC
This is what a half-empty Trump rally looks like in Reading, Penn., a day before Election Day.

[Dennis Donovan]

1. Another angle

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On edit: this isn't 10 min before Trump spoke.

[Miles Archer]

4. I've been away from DU for a while...just came back recently...

...I know that in the past we could just right-click an image, grab the link, and post it here to embed a photo.

Then we had to use the link from photo hosting sites?

What's the current protocol? How do you embed a photo in a post? Thanks...

[Dennis Donovan]

10. I use Imgur

https://imgur.com/

Post them there, link them from here.

[littlemissmartypants]

22. It depends...

Where's the image's origin?

[herding cats]

33. I just had to relearn myself!

I used https://postimages.org/
After the image uploaded I used the direct link to it from the list. Which is the second one down from the top in the list. It worked like a charm.

Welcome back!

[Attilatheblond]

34. Use that image hosting site too. Love that they have different links for posting on different types of sites

Pretty reliable and easy.

[Xavier Breath]

6. Boy, you can just smell the winning.

Or it could be ass. Yeah, it's ass.

[magicarpet]

27. The rank smell could be,... two day old dirty adult diapers.

[live love laugh]

42. I smell a rat. The republican owned media won't even show this stuff. They're poised to cover for him no matter what.

[Quixote1818]

16. Are we sure? I searched and it says the rally starts at 2pm Eastern time. nt

[whopis01]

55. Yeah - it is past 3pm and Trump hasn't even taken the stage yet. n/t

[Joinfortmill]

38. I just tap the image and download to my phone

[whopis01]

54. That wasn't taken 10 minutes before Trump was to speak.

Trump still has not started speaking at the event. It is 3pm and Marco Rubio is currently speaking.

That pic was at least 90 minutes prior to the first speaker.

[Dennis Donovan]

57. I was going by this David Corn tweet:

Link to tweet

[whopis01]

59. David Corn is about 2 hours off in his timing.

I will say that his later treat about the campaign playing "It's a man's world" was accurate - that's what I heard when looking at it just before Rubio started speaking.

[Prairie Gates]

2. If he's not on the stage in the picture it is meaningless

Even a concert fills up only just before the headliner.

[TheRickles]

5. Exactly. People shouldn't waste our time with these misleading images.

DUers are a pretty sophisticated lot. If Trump was on the stage, this picture would matter.

[Miles Archer]

7. If you think I'm wasting your time and posting misleading content...

...you can direct it to me, personally. Because making an accusatory statement like that as a reply elsewhere in the thread is a cowardly thing to do.

Just my take on civility. You need to do what makes sense to you. Clearly, that's your motivation.

[H2O Man]

14. Right.

Not to mention that the felon always lies and says there were ten thousand people in line the night before, and a crowd of 100,000 are outside because the venue is packed.

I will also note that everyone who has been here on DU for long recognizes you as being as good of a contributor as exists.

[TheRickles]

15. I'm upset with David Corn, not you. It's fine by me that you posted the image.

I was trying to add context that I thought was missing in the original post by David Corn and your posting of it. Sorry that you feel I was being cowardly by calling that misleading, but how else would I let my views be known? I thought that's what the Comments section is for.

[arthritisR_US]

68. You're not the problem and what you did and said was totally

reasonable and realistic. I think David Corn was setting up people to reply and repost his post because he loves controversy, he could have done his homework but no, he wanted to foment BS.

[PeaceWave]

13. Yeah. I've seen one too many of these Trumpless photos to put any stock in them.

[LAS14]

18. There should be a rule that we could alert about. Misleading...

... "news" is a big enough problem without our having to watch for it on DU.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

19. If I disagree w/you am I an OTHER? Sounds gaslighty to me. You said: "DUers are a pretty sophisticated lot."

Uh Oh, I want to be sophisticated, I want to be a DUer. BUT wait a minute - I agree w/the OP.

By the way that great movie "Gaslight" with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer will be showing on TCM this Wednesday - I'm recording it.

EDIT to add: "w/you" to reply title for clarification

[TheRickles]

36. You can disagree with me, and I with you, as fellow DUers. That doesn't make either of us an Other

or a gaslighter. We're folks who agree about a lot (that's why we're both on DU) while disagreeing about this one thing. And to reiterate, my major gripe is with David Corn (who should know better) - why didn't he include a photo showing the same empty seats WHILE Trump was speaking? I'd have preferred that version. Wouldn't you?

[AnotherMother4Peace]

48. I was involved w/hi control manipulation & was made to feel "less" if I wasn't in step w/the group. So I'm

very, very suspicious when someone speaks for me, puts me in a group to push a belief, makes me part of the "in crowd" to prove their point w/out my permission.

I try to always speak for myself, and never speak for others.

[Dem4life1234]

64. Really now?

[oasis]

8. Are you taking a shot at David Corn's credibility?

[H2O Man]

20. Respectfully disagree.

This isn't a concert. It is a fight. I was ringside in MSG for Frazier vs Ali. The place was packed by the time the undercard started.

[3Hotdogs]

32. The difference between this and a concert, is the security check. At a presidential campaign rally, you show up hours

early in order to get screened and in. There is no way that auditorium is gonna fill in 10 minutes.

[MagickMuffin]

3. Doesn't matter he sees Dead People, his Covid Dead are a loyal lot

However, they can’t vote!

[RT Atlanta]

9. those poor lost souls in the crowd...

n/t

[Initech]

11. Eh... he'll go on Fox News and complain about it tonight.

[Sky Jewels]

12. SAD.

Wait, strike that.

HILARIOUS.

[Kid Berwyn]

17. Has-Been Hitler Wannabes for Putin

[AllyCat]

23. This photo has always been so full of meaning for me.

Other foreign leaders glaring at Putin the madman as they should. It is the most sincere smile from TCF I’ve ever seen.

[tanyev]

29. I always think of it as the "Pick me, pick me!" smile.

[Kid Berwyn]

31. It is an amazing moment in history: a POTUS looks up to a dictator.

Trump's smile in the pic may be his most sincere expression of "Putin has the kompromat" or "I owe it all to him." Either way, Dimdonnie's countenance shows the then-POTUS was compromised.

Has anyone seen Trump smile at US allies, opposing politicians or anybody with integrity?

[Skittles]

65. the others are looking at Putin like a bug in a jar

Trump looks like he wants to blow him.

[Kid Berwyn]

66. Sad. Epstein thought they were best friends.

Although Dimdonnie does dance like he’s best friends with both of them at once.

[Skittles]

67. OMFG

[Emile]

21. What a loser.

[berksdem]

24. This actually makes me happy

to live in the greater Reading area. Tomorrow can't come soon enough! Hopefully we take home the prize and it is called earlier than predicted!!!!

[DownriverDem]

25. Reading PA

My Mom grew up in Reading. Reading is now a Latino majority city. Why would he go there? Is it near an airport?

[durablend]

40. Nah, my thinking...

He's desperate to insult more of them shore up support.

Hopefully he brought enough paper towels.

[Deminpenn]

26. For those who might not know,

the city of Reading is majority Latino with a Latino mayor.

[J_William_Ryan]

28. Unfortunately,

That people aren’t attending Trump’s fascist rallies doesn’t necessarily mean they won’t be voting for him.

[mahina]

30. Not wrong but deceptive. I loathe the man and all his slime trails he's leaving behind but this photo was taken before

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that shitbag started speaking.

[Wednesdays]

37. Still, it contrasts with Harris rallies I've seen live

Kamala's rallies are like big parties, with packed crowds dancing to music an HOUR before the scheduled start.

[lees1975]

39. There's no way they're going to fill a venue 10 minutes before he's scheduled to start.

There's no one outside in line, and they have to go through security to get in. Secret service closes the entrances at least an hour before he arrives so if you plan to see the candidate, you have to get there at least an hour before the speech starts. Venue in Raleigh this morning was only half full when he was on stage. These are borefests. And they're depressing, not exciting. Hand a crowd a bunch of signs and expect cheering and then he gives them nothing to cheer.

[whopis01]

52. This photo was posted at noon. The event didn't being till 2pm.

It is 3pm now and Trump has not yet taken the stage. They are still going through other speakers before him.

[redstatebluegirl]

35. Is it true alot of people follow him all over like the deadheads followed the grateful dead?

I have heard that a bunch are retired and jump in their motor home and follow their fearless orange leader.

[durablend]

41. Do these people have jobs?

[twodogsbarking]

43. Maybe this is their job.

[redstatebluegirl]

44. The people I know personally who do it are retired.

I just wondered if this was commonplace.

[NBachers]

45. Instead of a Full House, it looks more like a Dead Man's Hand.

[PedroXimenez]

46. they must have gotten raptured n/t

[dchill]

47. As of 2:30pm, venue is filling up, but not really full...

...I guess Trump is late again...
https://www.youtube.com/live/CREcow0cR8c?si=9SQuBNBXxpJCpUyG

[Wiz Imp]

50. That video doesn't pan the arena at all so you can't tell if it is filling up or not

All you see is a tight shot of the stage and the small portion of the arena you can see was already filled up in David Corn's & Josh Sanders tweets.

Link to tweet

[dchill]

51. Thanks, but I'm not worried - I live near Reading...

...and considering the deep, crackling redness of the area, I'd have expected an overflow crowd on a day like today.

[Wiz Imp]

53. Based on what you can see of the crowd in both videos & photos, it is overwhelmingly white

Hard to see in Latino's in the crowd. Given the majority Latino population of the city, that would seem to be telling.

[dchill]

56. Good point.

[Wiz Imp]

49. Trump roasted by Harris campaign over 'ghost town' election eve rally

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-rally-empty-seats-2669585291/

Former President Donald Trump held an election eve rally in Raleigh, North Carolina on Monday — but it packed nowhere near the punch of the former president's past campaign events.

The New York Times' Michael Gold reported on Monday morning shortly before the rally began that the arena where the rally was being held was "far from a full house, and no line outside."

Gold wasn't the only one who noticed how sparsely attended the Trump rally was, as MSNBC's Vaughn Hillyard estimated that the arena in Raleigh was only around 70 percent full, whereas in past years Trump rallies would be packed to the rafters.

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[LAS14]

61. Where was this? And when was Trump scheduled to appear? The video is at about 11 a.m. nt

[Wiz Imp]

63. Raleigh NC this morning

The rally was scheduled to begin at 10:00 am and you can hear a pre-Trump speaker speaking in the video.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-trump-attends-campaign-rally-in-raleigh-north-carolina-as-2024-presidential-race-nears-end

[peggysue2]

58. This is what losing looks like

Since the Madison Square Garden event with MAGA's freak flag proudly displayed, Trump's campaign has collapsed. The speed of that collapse has increased with every subsequent rally. Agent Orange is more erratic, angrier and hateful.

He knows he's losing. We know he's losing. Tomorrow the whole world will know.

Wait for a Hallelujah chorus to rise into the stratosphere!

[Mike 03]

60. Haha. It's even worse than I imagined!

In fact, it's even worse than the crowd at Trump's 2020 in-the-midst-of-the-COVID pandemic rally.

[Cha]

62. Somebody said on that thread that" he's not expected for 2 hours.". So

there's still hope.

TY