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The size of the crowd at Donald Trump‘s latest rally has come under scrutiny with people giving varied accounts about the number of people who attended it.
Trump, the presumptive nominee for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination, held a large rally in a Democratic borough of New York City on Thursday to drum up support ahead of November’s presidential election. He told supporters at Crotona Park, South Bronx, of his potential plans for the city if he is elected to the White House.
The rally had a permit for 3,500 people, according to the New York Times which cited the Police Department. However, some said many more attended the event. Steven Cheung, spokesperson for Trump, told Newsweek in an email after the event that 25,000 people attended.
Meanwhile, John Tabacco, a Newsmax reporter praised the event in a video and said he estimated that there was around “25,000 to 30,000” people. Bo Loudon said on X, formerly Twitter, that “over 30,000 people” went to the rally.
CNN National Correspondent Kristen Holmes told viewers that there was “a bigger crowd than Democrats would like to see.” She added that at some rallies, the Trump campaign brings people from other areas but many of the people she spoke to at the Bronx rally were locals.
However, X account the Shallow State wrote that the “size of the crowd was small.” And attorney and Trump critic Ron Filipkowski said: “Right-wing media can hype this Bronx rally all they want. In a city of over 8 million people Trump drew 4,000 tops. That’s with a lot of people from out of state.”
MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire also said the crowd was around 7,000 people during a show.
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