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Photos Don’t Lie: Trump’s Georgia Rally Was a Total Bust With Low Attendance and People Leaving Mid-Rally

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Why is Trump having rallies?

It is a serious question and there are only two real answers. Given the fact that up until the 2016 election, they were called “stump speeches,” or “campaigning” but then – bizarrely (we were so innocent back then), he kept having them. Not as often, he held three to five between the election and the inauguration, but it was so damned weird that it really freaked us out. He was obviously doing them because he got addicted to the adoration and was jonesing.

So that’s one rule. The second one, obviously, the money. With Trump, it’s always about the money. Combine money with adoration and it is like an addict mainlining cocaine-laced heroin for a narcissist.

But the rallies just aren’t what they used to be. From Newsweek:

Former President Donald Trump‘s Georgia rally on Saturday failed to draw the number of supporters he has been accustomed to in the southern state, according to multiple journalists covering the event.

Trump held the event in support of several of Georgia’s Republican primary candidates in Commerce, Georgia, which is about an hour drive northeast of Atlanta. While the former president has regularly seen tens of thousands attend his events in the state, as well as other states across the country, journalists assessed that the crowd size was underwhelming this weekend.

“I’ve covered more than two dozen Trump rallies around the nation. This is the smallest crowd I’ve seen at a rally of his in Georgia since he won the 2016 election—significantly smaller than the crowd in Perry in September,” Greg Bluestein, a political reporter at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution tweeted.

But the real story is in the pictures:

https://twitter.com/SpiroAgnewGhost/status/1507895293781504002

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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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