It seems that the Biden campaign is resorting to questionable tactics in its bid to rival former President Donald Trump’s popularity. In a recent turn of events, Trump has been seen holding rallies in traditionally Democratic areas, with the latest one held on June 22. The Biden team hastily claimed their rally at the same venue saw a larger turnout. However, they conveniently omitted crucial details about how a massive barrier had halved the arena for their event.
As Potus Paper reports,
On Sunday, the Biden campaign immediately responded, claiming the current president drew a larger crowd at the same venue. However, they neglected to mention that a giant barrier blocked off half the arena for the “Biden rally.” While Trump did have the upper deck cordoned off, video shows that the entire lower deck was open, suggesting that the crowds were likely very similar in size.
The irony is hard to miss – the 2022 rally that Biden’s team is boasting about wasn’t even a Biden-led event. It was attended by Barack Obama to promote now-Senator John Fetterman’s candidacy. Even more embarrassing is how Biden couldn’t fill up even half of a high-school gymnasium during his recent rally in Philadelphia for his 2024 campaign.
Furthermore, crowd size comparisons are inherently unreliable as measures of electoral success. It’s not prudent for Republicans to assume larger crowds guarantee victory any more than it is for Biden to claim his crowds surpass those of Trump’s. Such claims from the latter only come across as desperate and unconvincing.