It looks like Elizabeth Warren is the new liberal media darling now that Kamala Harris has gone down the toilet. The media are so in love with the fake injun that they are doubling, or tripling her actual crowd size numbers. The fake news media has widely reported that Warren drew 12,000 people to a rally in Minnesota. Turns out the actual crowd size was somewhere between 4,000-6,000. Still, much more impressive numbers than Sleepy Joe Biden who drew dozens in Iowa today. But yet it again, this demonstrates that the fake news media will spew anything if it helps Democrats.
| Fake News: No, Elizabeth Warren didn’t draw 12,000 to Minnesota rally |
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CLAIM: The presidential campaign of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) claims that she drew 12,000 people to a town hall meeting on the campus of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Monday evening.
VERDICT: The crowd size was closer to 4,000, and probably 6,000 at most.
Crowd size is often seen — rightly or wrongly — as a proxy for political support. It is not always a good measure: for example, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) drew massive crowds across California in 2016, but lost the state to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by a wide margin.The 12,000 figure was never independently confirmed and is probably wrong. It also fits a pattern of (modest) exaggeration by the Warren campaign in recent weeks.
Both Sanders and Warren drew large crowds in town halls across New Hampshire last week. Breitbart News was there to cover both candidates, and estimated that each drew roughly 300 to 400 people at their largest events, respectively.
What was striking was that each campaign reported its numbers differently. The Sanders campaign provided Breitbart News an exact figure of 327 people at the Littleton Opera House; the Warren campaign claimed that 700 people attended her open-air town hall on a farm in Franconia, though Breitbart News estimated “over 300 people” there.