Trump boasts that ‘every rally is packed’ as camera pans to empty seats

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During his rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, on Saturday night, Trump boasted: “We’ve had the largest rallies in the history of any country, and every rally is packed. You have no available seats. You had nothing.”

But immediately after this comment, the NTD.com cameraman energetically panned the stadium: increase in areas of free space and people leaving the arena, although it is unclear whether these patrons are leaving the arena entirely.

News Nation reporter Libby Dean also captured dozens of empty seats in a post on her X (formerly Twitter) account, including locations Trump likely could have seen from his position at the podium.

Even the Kamala Harris-Tim Waltz campaign’s X account got in on the action. accommodation nearby Trump’s statements and photos of completely empty places. “He is addressing several sections that are completely empty,” the campaign said in a post on the X account.

Trump has previously addressed reports of people leaving his rallies early. claiming that this “never happens”. But two weeks ago, Guardian interviewed Trump supporters who left his rally early in Marietta, Georgia.

“We had to wait a little bit to get him on stage,” Haley Lummus of Jasper, Georgia, told the publication. Trump took the stage an hour and a half late. “Everyone was waving and a lot of people were very happy to see him applauding.”

But Lummus said, “I’ve been working and I’m tired.”

Guardian reported that by the time Lummus left, about 50 more people had left. In less than 30 minutes, the newspaper reported, “a steady stream of people streamed toward the exits.”