Trump's people are holding his rallies in tiny towns because he can't draw big crowds: columnist
Appearing on MSNBC on Sunday morning, Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin suggested that Donald Trump's people are specifically holding his rallies in small towns over fears of low turnout because his supporters are growing "bored" with hearing the same things from him over and over.
Speaking with fill-in host Michael Steele, the moderate conservative columnist pointed out that the former president's latest appearance was in Pickens, South Carolina with a population of just over 3,000.
After watching clips of the former president ranting to the crowd, host Steele began, "Jennifer let's start with you. So, you've got the blah blah blah, the trump rhetoric about how things are going, how bad it is, how he is the only one standing in the way between his supporters and the so-called deep state. It's nothing new we haven't heard before. But what does the fact that he is now criminally indicted twice, how does that play? How does it change the stakes in this conversation?"
"I think this makes him even more self-centered, if that's possible for a narcissist, and it makes him completely uninterested in the country's problems," she replied. "He doesn't talk about inflation, he doesn't talk about jobs, he doesn't talk about education, he talks about himself because that's the only thing that matters."
"And you do wonder at one point if voters get bored with it, and at what point the other candidates say, 'I'm tired of hearing you whine, Mr. Trump? Why don't you talk about something else?'" she asked. "And I think that's maybe his biggest problem, not that his hard-core supporters would ever leave him, but people kind of get bored of the act."
"The fact that he has to go to some little hamlet in South Carolina, which I am sure is beautiful, suggests that he can't really fill the bigger venues at this point," she added. "And he's not gonna get on the debate stage because he fears someone will take a punch at him. So, we will have to see if he's wearing thin and if voters, and quite frankly, donors decide that they have had enough."
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