And in 2024, Trump is giving his supporters fewer opportunities to form a crowd. “Trump has also repeatedly raised the large crowds that Harris is getting compared with [President Joe] Biden,” Dawsey and Scherer report. From July 1 to Aug. 10, 2016, Trump held 22 rallies, including six days on which he held multiple rallies. In 2020, the landscape was different for two reasons: the restrictions that accompanied the coronavirus pandemic and the fact that Trump was president. He held public events on nearly every day in July and August of that year, including a number of rallies held by conference call.

Source: Washington Post August 09, 2024 04:13 UTC