Radio host Hugh Hewitt says the lower-than-expected attendance at President Donald Trump’s recent rally in Tulsa means nothing in terms of the election results on Nov. 3.
“Zero. Nothing. Nada,” Hewitt wrote in a column posted by The Washington Post on Monday night. “Only those suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome will argue otherwise.
“But they did. All Sunday long on MSNBC, CNN and Twitter — where the blue bubble is thickest and reality is what the inhabitants want it to be.”
He said Trump, no doubt, would have preferred to kick off his “summer campaigning with a bang and a packed arena in Tulsa.
“But only 6,000 people braved COVID-19 concerns and perhaps the fear of violent protests such as those that marked the early days of the mass demonstrations following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis police custody.”
And he noted neither protesters nor supporters were at the rally in “great numbers.”
However, he pointed out the crowd was still “bigger by far than any former vice president Joe Biden has drawn since the virus exploded.”
Hewitt said the choice in the fall “will be a stark one.”
And he said however the election turns out, it won’t have anything “to do with Saturday night’s rally in Oklahoma.”
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