Your use of "weird" is really awkward. You sound like you're an old parent trying to copy teenage slang. |
I'm not a good judge of crowd sizes. My adult DS and I took the metro to Farragut West - arriving at the station around 5:45pm. The metro was not crowded. There was a decent crowd walking towards the entrance points. We tried to find the end of the line, but never found it. Instead, we saw a crowd of people by the Washington Monument and decided to head over there. We had a good view of the jumbotron. We left as Harris was winding down her speech so we didn't have to wait long at the metro. Loudspeakers were so good, we could hear during our walk to the metro. The "overflow" area was crowded - but again, I have no idea how many people were there. The crowd by us was young people and old people, mainly white, which surprised me. Not many 30-50 year olds, but that is the age group with children at home and it may have been difficult to get out on a school night. There was a large Palestine protest group near by chanting during the time when the ordinary people were speaking. BTW - I've already voted for Trump and my DS is planning on voting for him on Tuesday. We wanted to see what a Harris rally was like. I thought the first part of her speech was very hateful, but the second half did say what her plans and was more neutral/unifying. |
This is such a weird post. |
I hope your elementary grammar teacher doesn’t SAW this post. |
Curious - what did you find "hateful"? |
Don’t feed the troll. Anyone with cognitive skills found it eloquent and thoughtful unlike Trump’s whale psychiatrist gamblings. But what can you expect from someone who chooses to vote for a felon insurrectionist grifter sexual predator over a prosecutor and public servant. |
For those doubting the numbers:
I attended the rally with a family member who fell ill around 6:30 and we wound up leaving shortly before speeches started (a bummer but necessary). We got in line to enter at 3pm and we're up close to the stage before we left. When we left, the Ellipse was full and they were just letting in the last people they could admit through security (they literally let in two extra people who were about to be turned away when we left). Outside there was still a line wrapped all the way down Constitution, up 15th, and past the White House (these people would wind up being sent to the overflow across Constitution by the Washington monument, where there was already a large crowd forming). We wound up walking up to H Street because we could get a Lyft at that point, and I took my family member to a sandwich shop that was still open to sit down and drink some water while I tried to get us a ride. We sat there for about 20 minutes, during which time a steady stream of people slowed south wearing Harris gear and headed to the rally. Like hundreds of people. This was around 7-- it was people heading down after work and hoping to see it, people who walked all the way down to the mall in a Tuesday night for a standing room only political speech. If the Ellipse holds 40k, there were easily 70k people there. And the enthusiasm was really palpable. We made it home in time to see Kamala speaking on TV, for which I'm grateful, as well as to the dozens of people who were kind to my family member as we made our way out of that packed event (not actually easy but people were gracious and lovely). Anyway, the reports are true. There really were that many people there. |
I’ve heard it was over a million people, not just “75,000” |
I heard two million! |
I heard MAGA is jealous and downplaying it with lies. |
How was the first part of her speech hateful? All she did was contrast herself with Trump. And the crowd estimates were a combination of "ticket RSVP's" and US Park Service. |
Wait - this Jimmy Kimmel?
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Literally, no one cares. |
Yeah, but all the footage was directly from this clown. ![]() |
These DCUM Trumpsters are allergic to sanity and facts. |