Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was expected to speak to a drastically smaller crowd in Asheville, NC, on Wednesday than he did during the 2016 campaign cycle.
The Asheville Citizen-Times reported that Trump would hold his Wednesday rally at Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, which seats 2,431 people.
"That's about a quarter of the capacity of the ExploreAsheville.com Arena, where Trump spoke in 2016," the paper noted.
During comments in Florida on Wednesday, Trump continued to insist he had larger crowd sizes than Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris.
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"We have the biggest crowds ever in the history of politics," the former president told reporters. "We have crowds that nobody's ever seen before. And we continue to have that. We have a level of enthusiasm that nobody's seen before."
USA Today columnist Rex Huppke went to X to show Trump some events that are drawing bigger Asheville crowds than Wednesday's rally.
"Aug. 30: King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard," he posted, listing upcoming events at the ExploreAsheville venue.
"Sept. 17: Seether and Skillet Oct. 9: Knocked Loose, with The Garden, Drain and Militarie Gun Oct. 17 - 20: Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands
All of which is to say, things are going great for Trump and the largest and biggest and strongest and greatest political movement in history.
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