The line stretched for more than six blocks as thousands waited to attend the first Harris-Walz rally in Philadelphia.
Line video:
In Philadelphia, the line for the first Harris/Walz rally stretched for more than six blocks pic.twitter.com/LFkEabZCJh
—Nancy Cordes (@nancycordes) August 6, 2024
This is the delay for this line:
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This is a time-lapse of one of the longest lines I’ve seen so far this election cycle.
Thousands of people waited in the rain to attend the first Harris-Walz rally. Attendance here will likely exceed the 10,000 that Harris had in Atlanta last week. pic.twitter.com/yf7xtXGcxl
—Nnamdi (@NnamEgwuon) August 6, 2024
Some believe Harris and Walz will draw bigger crowds in Philadelphia than Harris did in Georgia.
as The New York Times recently reported Trump was troubled by the size of the crowds Harris drew after the rally in Atlanta, “but Ms. Harris’s star turn on the same stage was unsettling to Mr. Trump. He seemed nostalgic for the glory days of his first campaign, His lively rallies were only a harbinger of the astonishing victory that was to come.”
Trump appears to believe crowd size predicts victory. This is not true. American political history is littered with candidates who could draw crowds but failed to get votes. The most recent example is Trump himself, who held campaign rallies in 2020 and still lost by millions of votes.
Crowd size is a measure of enthusiasm, so what really bothered Trump was not the number of people but the level of enthusiasm for Harris.
If Trump is uncomfortable with the crowds Harris drew in Atlanta, He might actually be scared of what he’s going to see in Philadelphia.
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