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LetMyPeopleVote

(145,242 posts) Sun Aug 13, 2023, 08:00 PM Aug 2023

TFG plays games with attendance at Iowa state fair

TFG is always lying about crowd size. Here TFG used the Secret Service to try to create a false impression of crows size and the line about the actual crowd size
TFG attempted to manufacture the appearance of a large crowd by using the Secret Service

Link to tweet

The actual crowd size was much smaller than TFG claimed

Link to tweet

https://www.meidastouch.com/news/trump-lies-about-crowd-size-iowa-fair

Donald Trump continues to lie about his crowd sizes, but this one was especially egregious. The Iowa State Fair runs 11 days total, and typically averages about 110,000 people per day, with slightly more on weekends.

When Trump rolled into the fair yesterday at 1:00, he immediately proclaimed that it was a "record crowd" despite the fact that the fair still had many hours to go and attendance figures aren't released until the following afternoon. He only stayed 45 minutes.....

When attendance figures were released for the day, the total attendance was 118,286, which is pretty much average for a Saturday. The record attendance for a Saturday is 127,277 in 1991. Last year on the same day they had over 5,000 people MORE than this year.

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TFG plays games with attendance at Iowa state fair (Original Post) LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2023 OP

Few people go to the Iowa State Fair to see politicians rurallib Aug 2023 #1

We deliberately didn't go this year because of the circus the GOP (and Drumpf in particular) create. progressoid Aug 2023 #5

Like the "record crowds" at his inauguration. tanyev Aug 2023 #2

Wow! 12,000 people in that picture - if you count the 3 in the upper right & the 2 policemen. Wonder Why Aug 2023 #4

The TFG campaign is adept at creating the illusion of larger crowds LetMyPeopleVote Aug 2023 #3

rurallib

(62,415 posts)

1. Few people go to the Iowa State Fair to see politicians

Reply to LetMyPeopleVote (Original post)

Sun Aug 13, 2023, 08:21 PM

Aug 2023

We don't go anymore because of age, but the percentage of people who would come to trump would be well below 1%.

There are carnivals, livestock, talent contests and all sorts of food and plant judging.

Don't know if he spoke at the Des Moines Register's Soap Box. If he did I can't imagine he would draw more than 100 to 150.

Plus he had to share the bull shit and pig shit with a lot of real, natural producers.

progressoid

(49,990 posts)

5. We deliberately didn't go this year because of the circus the GOP (and Drumpf in particular) create.

Reply to rurallib (Reply #1)

Mon Aug 14, 2023, 08:55 PM

Aug 2023

I know the IDP was looking for volunteers to man their booth. I've done it in the past but I just couldn't deal with that amount of stupid this year. I guess I'm still shell shocked from TFG's reign of errors.