Jamie on Trump crowd sizes and Congress
by Jolyon: Donald Trump
Jamie's read on this: votes counted on election day are the only numbers with real weight. Should the GOP lose its grip on Congress, a past crowd of 117,000 at a New Jersey rally stops meaning anything. And the verdict on Trump's second term, in Jamie's view, lands among the biggest abject failures any American president has produced.
Transcript (en)
I'd noticed a trickling of people. They're all the way to the back, the corner of the press. Look at all the press. That's a lot of fake news. A lot of fake news. You know, I saw Barack Hussein Obama was in Michigan and the place was empty. And they were saying, oh, this is a large crowd coming. The people are trickling through. They don't talk about my crowds. I never talk about them. My biggest was 117,000. That's even big for Jason. 117 in New Jersey on the beach. Well, in Butler, we had 115. Butler, Pennsylvania. That was an interesting time. We had 115. No, we have the biggest crowds ever by anybody ever. And we're very proud of them. But the fake news, I said,
