Former President Donald Trump boasted about the size of his crowd when he and President Joe Biden headlined a rival rally on Saturday.
On the Truth Social platform, Trump questioned whether media reports would compare the size of the crowds at the two rallies in Pennsylvania.
Alongside a video showing supporters waiting to attend a Trump rally at Latrobe’s Arnold Palmer Regional Airport, he said his crowd was “50 times” or “perhaps larger” than Biden’s. Said there was.
In a separate post, Trump said in a Breitbart article that Biden and former President Barack Obama were unable to fill the Liacouras Center, a 10,000-seat arena on the campus of Temple University in Philadelphia.
Campaigning together for the first time since Biden took office, they were struggling for Pennsylvania’s Lieutenant Governor Senate candidate John Fetterman and Gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro.
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According to Politico, the White House said about 7,500 supporters were at the arena.
Videos and posts on Twitter showed several upper sections of the arena remaining empty, with some empty seats dotted in the lower section as well.
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Despite the seemingly empty seats, Mr. Biden praised those who turned up for the rally.
Referring to Trump’s event for Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz, who faces off against Mr. Fetterman for a Senate seat in Pennsylvania, and state Senator Doug Mastriano, who is running for president, Biden said, “This The crowd is very loud and I think you can hear us in Latrobe.” for the governor.
“They will listen to us. They will listen to us on Tuesday,” Biden said.
The president stressed stakes, warning that abortion rights, social security, and even democracy itself were at risk.
Biden was booed by the crowd when he said he would pass a bill to ban abortion nationwide if Republicans took control of Congress. He vowed to reject such a bill if it came to his desk.
“If we elect John Fetterman to the Senate and retain control of the House, we can bring back the power of choice to this country through codification. Law vs Wade And make it the law of the country,” he said.
But it was Obama who really got the crowd excited the moment it went viral on Twitter.
Obama argued for optimism, saying, “Is the burning politics we see now? It doesn’t have to be who we are. We can be better.”
he added. “By the way, it has nothing to do with political correctness or being overly awake. It’s about the basic values my Kansas grandparents taught me.
“Values I grew up with. Values you grew up with. Values we try to teach our children, values learned in churches, mosques, synagogues and temples: honesty, fairness, opportunity, hard work. .
“The values that Josh Shapiro and John Fetterman stand for, the values that Joe Biden stands for, the values written in the founding documents miles from here, the clarity to freedom and equality represented by Philly’s own Liberty Bell. That’s where America stands. That’s where we are.”
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Meanwhile, Trump has described the United States statewide as a “declining country” and predicted that the United States would collapse unless the Republican Party won a big victory on Tuesday.
“If we want to stop destroying our country and save the American Dream, we must vote for the Republican Party in a big red wave on Tuesday,” he said.
Newsweek We have reached out to the White House and President Trump’s office for comment.
