Thread: This Donald Trump crowd shot from Florida will wow you

This Donald Trump crowd shot from Florida will wow you
By Chris Cillizza January 13 at 10:14 PM

By Chris Cillizza January 13 at 10:14 PM

Donald Trump took his front-running campaign for the Republican presidential nomination to Pensacola, Fla., on Wednesday night. And, holy cow, did people come out in droves to see him.

Here's a photo of the crowd taken by WaPo's own Jenna Johnson.

Trump's campaign claimed it gave out 20,000 tickets; the arena holds 11,500 people. According to Jenna's reporting, there were "at least 11,000" in attendance and "several thousand more were turned away."

Large crowds are the rule, not the exception, at this point for Trump. He had 8,000 people in Lowell, Mass., earlier this month; more than 2,000 showed up in Burlington, Vt., -- not exactly a conservative enclave -- to hear Trump speak last week.

I've written a lot about crowd sizes this election and how they remain an uncertain indicator of actual support. But, Trump's ability to draw thousands and thousands of people to hear him speak this close to actual voting -- we are 19 days from the Iowa caucuses -- suggests to me that the enthusiasm and passion he has sparked among a certain segment of the GOP base isn't going anywhere any time soon.

And, judging from the packed house in Pensacola, Trump might be getting stronger, not weaker, as Iowa draws ever closer -- a prospect that will send a shiver down the collective spine of the Washington political establishment.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...-will-wow-you/

Here's the picture. Wow!




Jenna Johnson
✔ ‎@wpjenna
Thousands packed into the Pensacola Bay Center to see Donald Trump tonight...


5:42 PM - 13 Jan 2016

Thank you, Jean! It's such a beautiful picture!! Thanks so much for posting it for me.

You're most welcome Judy. Please feel free to send me a pm if you need help posting a pic again and I will if I can. It is a real 'wow' picture. Mainstream media sure doesn't want to show the size of his crowds do they?

Mainstream Media does everything possible not to show these beautiful pictures of his nice rallies! It's very frustrating. Trump spends a lot of money to hold these events and make them as nice as possible for everyone who comes and the people travel miles and miles and wait hours and hours in lines to get in and participate. For the media to try to hide this is just so wrong. It's wrong in its treatment of Donald Trump and even worse in its treatment of many Americans participating in our election process and all the effort it takes for them to be there. Just Wrong As It Can Be!

I was so happy to see the Washington Post show the crowd in this picture and it's such a beautiful photo with the lights and flags and angle from up high looking down. Great photo with a tremendous story behind it. Americans are very excited about Donald Trump, and that's a story in and of itself which should be reported. Hopefully the media will soon see that and start showing the crowds.

I hope so anyway!

Scarborough on Trump Pensacola Rally: ‘I Never Saw Anything Like That in My Hometown Before’ — ‘I Don’t Get It’

by JEFF POOR
14 Jan 2016
3,618 comments

Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” host Joe Scarborough, weighed in on Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s rally in Pensacola, FL, a city of which was in the district that he represented in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Scarborough indicated that it was unprecedented for Pensacola to draw such attendance for a presidential campaign event.

“I was at George W. Bush’s campaign rally in 2004 at the final stages of that unbelievable presidential race in early November,” Scarborough said. “I saw Reagan come to Pensacola twice in 1980. I saw the crowds. I never saw anything like that in my hometown before. It’s absolutely staggering, here we are — in early January. I’ll be honest with you — I guess seeing it in your own hometown, I don’t get it as far as the size of these crowds go. It’s like nothing I saw with Reagan. It’s like nothing I saw with Bush. It’s nothing I saw with any political candidate what I saw come out of Pensacola last night.”

Later in the segment, Scarborough said he doubted any of Trump’s opponents could draw a crowd close to that of Trump’s crowd.

“I think it’s very safe to say Marco [Rubio] would get 150 people at an event,” Scarborough added. “Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) would probably get double — probably get 300-400 people at an event.”

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2016/...i-dont-get-it/