by HatetheSwamp on April 11, 2022 3:56 am
Again with the smaller crowd claim, eh?
I can't judge crowd size and, unless the RSBN crew comments, I have no honest assessment.
I didn't watch much of this rally and, for the first time in a long time, didn't watch the live speech. There were some recorded clips played while other speakers were appearing.
What I have noticed in these recent rallies is the spontaneous, rabid enthusiasm of the crowds. There was nothing like it in the 020 rallies. I can only speculate on the reason. Someone did a poll in recent weeks that probed the "enthusiasm gap" and GOPs were +17. That may be it. The fervor is positive, i.e., FOR the GOP candidates...not anti Old Fart. I can remember hearing LET'S GO BRANDON.
As far as Curt's article. It's unabashed TDS editorialism, not journalism. Note the hatespeech:
Former President Donald Trump has finished his typically meandering speech, in which he jumped among topics like sanctuary cities, security at the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack on Congress, what he called environmental alarmism, and claims that President Joe Biden is corrupt and that public education has replaced “reading and math with pronouns and gender study.” One of the first things he’d do as president with a Republican majority in Congress, Trump said, would be to end “every last COVID mandate. They’re still around.” In North Carolina, most mandates have expired. None of North Carolina’s 115 school districts have mask mandates in place...