On Monday, Hillary Clinton held a rally in the battleground state of Ohio where over 18,500 people came to listen to the Democratic presidential nominee, her largest attendance to date in the 2016 campaign.
Secret Service estimated that 18,500 people attended Clinton’s rally at the Ohio State University, which included 13,500 who were inside the rally and 5,000 outside the security perimeter.
Secret Service counts 18,000 here between the event and voters outside the security perimeter — Clinton’s largest rally of the campaign https://t.co/B9r2veNkt8
— Ruby Cramer (@rubycramer) October 10, 2016
It might seem like a large number of people until you realize that Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders shattered those attendance numbers months ago.
Trump’s campaign claimed to have approximately 35,000 people at a rally in Mobile, Alabama in August 2015.
In April, Bernie Sanders spoke to a crowd of 28,000 people at Prospect Park in Brooklyn, NY.
People might claim sexism as the reason that Clinton doesn’t have high attendance at her rallies, but Trump and Sanders were so entertaining (Trump more so) and relative unknowns in the political sphere that curious voters wanted to hear their message.
Clinton has been in the public domain for 30 years that most Americans know where she stands on issues, save for the recent publications coming from Wikileaks.
So, while Clinton claims she has the coalition of voters and the polling numbers to win the election, Trump can send her the photo of one of his rallies and say “prove it.”
