What's with the Trump campaign's fixation with crowd sizes? There is much fertile ground for psychiatric speculation here.
Since his inauguration event back in 2017, Trump and his supporters seem to have had an unhealthy preoccupation with how big this crowd was, and how big that crowd was, and our crowd was bigger than your crowd, etc, etc. (For what it's worth, Trump's pictures of his inauguration crowd were cropped and edited to give a false impression of their size.)
It's still going on today, as Mr. Trump and MAGA world desperately try to convince the world that his campaign rally in Arizona was better attended than Kamala Harris', as though this is a useful metric and some how gives him legitimacy. This comes after polls showing Ms. Harris catching up and even surpassing Mr. Trump in Arizona and some other important battle states.
Crowd size is an extension of Trump's obsession with TV ratings, and he must be feeling a bit stung since the news that the Democratic National Convention TV viewing number handily outstripped those of the Republican National Convention on all four days. This, for Trump, must have been a big deal because, after all, size matters. To him, at least.
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