Maybe MAGA isn’t so winning in the home of the Mayo Clinic- Rochester claims that their Mayo Civic Center arena can fit 5000 for concerts, so tonight Trump’s team had them keep about half the bleachers packed up and curtained off, so by the time they’d set aside room for a security buffer and the media they had room for 2000, maybe 3000 at most, Trump fans. And they may not all have been Minnesotans, as two separate sources reported hearing a lot of attendees with southern accents. Rochester has a pretty capable airport, and I imagine passenger charters are cheap on a fall weekday…
Event attendance is a good way to judge the voter appeal of a candidate- I knew Obama was a winner when I saw him regularly turn out 5% or more of a county’s population for a weekday event. Olmstead County has a population of over a hundred thousand all by itself, and at least another hundred thousand live within an hours drive… Looks like Trump is down to drawing only one, maybe two percent of the locals as his popularity slumps… Wonder how he’ll do in a few years when he’s playing prison lunch rooms?
Sassy Democrat 