Democrats Brag About ‘30,000 People’ Who Showed Up at Kamala Rally – Now Look at the Numbers on Trump’s Joe Rogan Appearance

October 26, 2024 Mark Wolf US 0

The Democrats spent most of Friday bragging about the crowd that Kamala Harris turned out to her event in Houston, Texas.

Sure, the “campaign event” was more of a Beyoncé concert than anything else. Sure, there were numerous reports of sustained boos and heckling when Harris finally started speaking; apparently, some Texans may not have appreciated mixing an actual message with the concert they’d showed up for.

But there was no denying that it looked great, at least at first glance:

And gosh, were Democrats all over this as proof that Texas was going blue — if not in the presidential election, than at least in the close-ish Senate race between Collin Allred and Ted Cruz:

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Wow, they could find 30,000 people willing to turn up to a Beyoncé concert in her hometown. Stop the presses, please.

But I digress, because across the Lone Star State in Austin, Donald Trump also turned up the same day to speak with podcaster Joe Rogan. And if you’re wondering which one has reached more people on Friday, let’s just put it this way: Thirteen hours after it was posted, the video had at least 11.5 million more views on YouTube than Harris had attendees.

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The interview itself was notable in several way, notably for Trump actually acknowledging a mistake (one more than Harris, at least) in terms of “bad choices” in terms of “neocons”

“The biggest mistake I made … I picked some people that I shouldn’t have picked,” Trump said during the interview.

Rogan then asked if this was the doing of “neocons,” or neoconservatives, a label for interventionist conservatives with globalist economic policies that saw its height during the George W. Bush administration.

“Yeah, neocons, or bad people, or disloyal people,” Trump said, specifically naming former White House chief of staff John Kelly and former National Security Advisor John Bolton.

Meanwhile, Rogan — whose political views tend toward that of a heterodox independent — said that he wanted Trump in after the assassination attempt against him.

“Once they shot you, I was like, ‘He’s got to come in here,’” Rogan said. “It’s all about timing.”

The full episode is here, in case you missed it:

WARNING: The following video contains graphic language that some viewers will find offensive.

Now, obviously, there will be plenty more headlines to come out of Trump’s appearance — one that Harris has declined to make, with her campaign saying she’s too busy.

She’s busy drawing 30,000 in a state where it probably won’t make much of a difference — and most of those people were there to see Queen Bey. Trump, halfway across Texas, was drawing millions of more people, and that was just on YouTube. Not only that, they were from all over the United States.

Tell me again which one got the bigger boost on Friday?



C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he’s written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014.

C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he’s written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014. Aside from politics, he enjoys spending time with his wife, literature (especially British comic novels and modern Japanese lit), indie rock, coffee, Formula One and football (of both American and world varieties).

Birthplace

Morristown, New Jersey

Education

Catholic University of America

Languages Spoken

English, Spanish

Topics of Expertise

American Politics, World Politics, Culture

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