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Trump Rallies Have Crowds. Biden Rallies Have Automobiles. Each Are OK With That.

Mr. Trump enters his rallies to pounding music and crowds roaring their approval — with few individuals sporting masks — as he throws Make America


Mr. Trump enters his rallies to pounding music and crowds roaring their approval — with few individuals sporting masks — as he throws Make America Nice Once more hats into the stands like T-shirts at a basketball recreation. Aides say that he feeds off the power of his audiences, and that the rallies have satisfied Mr. Trump that he’ll win regardless of polls exhibiting him trailing in nearly all the aggressive states.

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“A terrific purple wave is forming,” Mr. Trump stated on Saturday in Newtown, Pa. “As certain as we’re right here collectively, that wave is forming. And so they see it, they see it on all sides, and there’s not a factor they will do about it.”

Jason Miller, a senior adviser for Mr. Trump’s marketing campaign, stated the president “loves campaigning” and is all the time looking forward to “the enter from individuals outdoors the Beltway.”

However Mr. Trump is much less enthusiastic when the enter comes from smaller crowds. On Saturday morning, as he spoke to solely about 300 individuals at his first Pennsylvania rally of the day, Mr. Trump was torpid and subdued, as if he had been privately considering to himself: Yawn.

The evening earlier than, the president stalked off the stage in Rochester, Minn., after talking for lower than 30 minutes earlier than a tiny crowd in a state the place gatherings are restricted to not more than 250 individuals. Mr. Trump claimed that there have been “at the very least 25,000 individuals who wished to be right here tonight,” and stated that his supporters had been “barred from entry by radical Democrats.”

On Sunday, Mr. Trump additionally had rallies scheduled in Dubuque, Iowa; Hickory, N.C.; Rome, Ga.; and Opa-Locka, Fla. — the final one at 11 p.m.

Mr. Biden rallied supporters in Michigan on Saturday and in Pennsylvania on Sunday, however with a twist: His supporters attend his rallies of their vehicles to make sure social distancing within the midst of the pandemic.



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