While Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s staff were careful to tweet a photo of a packed crowd attending her second campaign launch in New York today, observers noted that an “overflow” area was totally devoid of people.
Clinton’s campaign set aside this area for overflow w jumbotron. Here it is 20 min to speech: pic.twitter.com/MUUhZJFiD0
— Dan Merica (@danmericaCNN) June 13, 2015
Overflow area at the Hillary Clinton rally, sans overflow pic.twitter.com/0VSu0zpKAE
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) June 13, 2015
Beautiful day for a campaign launch: pic.twitter.com/7muwmQ8FVD
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 13, 2015
The area, set up with a jumbo-tron to live-broadcast Hillary’s speech, held no supporters even 20 minutes into Hillary’s speech.
MSNBC observed that the crowd that did show up for her speech was “largely enthusiastic” but “not overwhelmed” and that the audience was overwhelmingly white.
