TexasAggiesWin said:

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Democrats/MSM: "Crowd sizes don't matter"

Democrats/MSM after their next breath: "Look at how many people are here in support of Kamala"

Republicans are fighting a non-stop battle against the media and Democrats who change their views based upon the wind

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Caring about crowd size is silly. It's not a good measure of a candidate's popularity. Some people will go to numerous rallies, some follow candidates across the country, some are paid to be there, and most are going to be far more motivated than your average voter.

I really don't think Democrats or the Harris/Walz campaign care about crowd sizes either. I think they only bring it up because they know how much Trump cares about crowd sizes. I think it's fair to say he is somewhat obsessed with his crowd size, or at least cares about them much more than the average person. So because of that, Dems bring it up just to mess with him.


Harris campaign actually has a Truth Social account and something like 10 of their last 15 posts have been trolling Trump with clips and pics about crowd sizes.
https://truthsocial.com/@KamalaHQ

They are doing it because it gets under his skin and it appears to be working if the Trump post from Truth Social (posted above) is accurate (I haven't looked to see if it is).

nai06 said:

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I think it's fair to say he is somewhat obsessed with his crowd size

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Somewhat?

fc2112 said:

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I hold the picture is still fake. When tricks are pulled to make an event appear other than what is really was, it's fake.

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I'm trying to walk through the mind of the photographer here.

Scenario 1:
I'm going to get set up inside the hanger where I can get the best shot of her actually speaking. I'm not quite sure where the plane is going to stop, but I'll pan the camera over, zoom in, and get some shots of her getting off the plane and walking towards the hanger when she arrives.

Scenario 2:
I really want to exaggerate the number of people here. I'll get set up way, way in the back of hanger here. I know for a fact that they are going to stop the plane at this spot. From my vantage point right here, I can zoom in and capture the crowd and the plane in one shot. It's going to make it look like there are 5X as many people here. And with all the other press photographers and people posting cell phone shots on social media, no one will ever know that the plane was actually parked far outside the hanger with no crowd immediately by the plane.

torrid said:

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fc2112 said:

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I hold the picture is still fake. When tricks are pulled to make an event appear other than what is really was, it's fake.

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I'm trying to walk through the mind of the photographer here.

Scenario 1:
I'm going to get set up inside the hanger where I can get the best shot of her actually speaking. I'm not quite sure where the plane is going to stop, but I'll pan the camera over, zoom in, and get some shots of her getting off the plane and walking towards the hanger when she arrives.

Scenario 2:
I really want to exaggerate the number of people here. I'll get set up way, way in the back of hanger here. I know for a fact that they are going to stop the plane at this spot. From my vantage point right here, I can zoom in and capture the crowd and the plane in one shot. It's going to make it look like there are 5X as many people here. And with all the other press photographers and people posting cell phone shots on social media, no one will ever know that the plane was actually parked far outside the hanger with no crowd immediately by the plane.

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Just for everyone's information...

These types of events usually have designated media stations where they can be. Certain photographers (like the campaign photographer) will get special access. There will be a big station that is elevated and directly across from the stage, and that will usually have the TV cameras. There will often be stations off to the side as well.

Sometimes they will have a well between the stage and the crowd and some photographers will get access there. This is similar to what Trump had on July 13th or what you see in most music concerts.

📍Detroit (technically Romulus, MI)

Vice President Harris getting ready to kick off her second event of the day, and third rally with newly crowned running mate Gov. Tim Walz. No crowd size estimate yet, but how many people do you think you can squeeze into an airport hangar? pic.twitter.com/tQuqpEEyBN

— Nnamdi (@NnamEgwuon) August 7, 2024

At 28 seconds, you can see the well between the stage and the crowd.

Then at about 33 seconds, you can see a ton of photographers clustered together and elevated and even some cameras on tripods. This was likely a designated media area. Also, it is a mad house in these things and you don't really want to be moving from spot to spot, because you are having to press through a ton of people carrying thousands of dollars of breakable equipment.

Also, unless you have special access, you are going to hate doing **** like this.

President Trump just reached a Billion views on X. Now that is trolling DEI Kamala and that random white guy VP choice.
Democrats are gleefully resorting to sleazy tricks with fake trolls of crowd sizes and middle school tween sick burns. Most dumb ass campaign ever.