Donald Trump’s supporters began to walk out after he spoke at length for over an hour in Pennsylvania.
Trump took the stage at 4:39 p.m. ET at the Wilkes-Barre Scranton Baby Pens headquarters in the key swing state of Pennsylvania. As usual, Trump couldn’t keep it short. He spoke until 6:24 p.m. ET.
Around 5:40pm ET, reporters started noticing this.
It appears that people are slowly starting to leave the Wilkes-Barre Trump rally about an hour into it. There appear to be more and more empty seats. pic.twitter.com/V3wYr0WLpg
—Zac Anderson (@zacjanderson) August 17, 2024
Zach Anderson of USA Today posted: “The Wilkes-Barre Trump rally is over an hour in and people are starting to trickle out. There appear to be more and more empty seats.”
You can see the empty seats.
We always try to be unbiased in our assessment of what happens at Trump rallies, which means we don’t use video taken before the former president began speaking to gauge attendance, but rather look for comparative video of the crowd at the start of the rally.
Here’s what the venue looked like before Trump took office: Appeared on stage:
At a Trump rally in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, several men ran around flapping their arms like birds, trying to entertain the crowd as they waited for Donald to finally appear.
And he hasn’t even come on stage yet.
Weird. pic.twitter.com/AiU2ldenfZ
– Art Candee 🥤 (@ArtCandee) August 17, 2024
The arena’s capacity is 8,300 for hockey and 10,000 for concerts. For safety reasons, it appears that the full concert set was not used because there was space left on the floor between Trump and the audience. There was also empty space on the floor on both sides, and taking the empty space into account, the arena’s capacity was not 10,000.
What’s not in dispute is that Trump supporters continued to leave while he was still speaking. The Wilkes-Barre-Scranton area is notorious for its Saturday evening traffic jams, but that doesn’t mean people are avoiding them by heading home.
People are apparently leaving because they are tired of Trump’s endless ramblings and his repeated complaints over and over again. Even his biggest supporters seem to be weary of his behavior.
The energy and enthusiasm is with Kamala Harris.Trump and his supporters are sticking to the formula. Trump lacks energy, and that lack of energy is reflected in his The crowd doesn’t stay.
Republicans should be worried, because Trump’s biggest supporters walk outIImagine what he’s doing to independents and swing voters.
