2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumWhere are the Sanders mega-rallies?
In the lead up to the New York Primary, we were continually told about how big Bernie's crowds were. Don't think I've seen an event talked up since then.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)Don't think so.
Bernie gets thousands, HRC can't fill a bowling alley.
CrowCityDem
(2,348 posts)riversedge
(70,242 posts)many at the end.
By the way--I did read that Sanders did not get the anticipated huge rally.
Eric J in MN
(35,619 posts)He did a zillion of them in Iowa.
He did one in a poor neighborhood of North Minneapolis in late February.
He did one with Spike Lee and Harry Belafonte at The Apollo in NYC on April 9.
CrowCityDem
(2,348 posts)Trenzalore
(2,331 posts)Venue and security costs. I would assume Bernie projects money is going to be harder to come by after Tuesday.
brush
(53,791 posts)and is still behind.
He still needs to raise funds for those rallies but David Plouffe, Obama's former campaign manager, said recently that Sanders needs to re-access his fund raising tactics because to continue to solicit funds when there is clearly no path to victory is fraud.
NWCorona
(8,541 posts)Maybe in California.
Edit: This looks pretty big to me.
wendylaroux
(2,925 posts)Dem2
(8,168 posts)NY was a bog loss, he's regrouping.