Do Biden or Sanders Have the Drawing Power the Democratic Party Needs

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President Donald Trump held his 390th political rally Wednesday afternoon in Panama City, Florida at the Aaron Bessatt Park Amphitheater. This outdoor venue was packed to the gills with raucous and enthusiastic supporters who hung on every word spoken by this president of the United States of America – a political rock star.

According to Wikipedia, during 2015-16 presidential candidate Donald Trump held 323 campaign rallies attended by an estimated 1.4-million-plus people at sports arenas, convention centers, coliseums, civic centers, hotel ballrooms, airports, state and county fairgrounds, high school and college gymnasiums and ball stadiums, and municipal auditoriums. The phenomena of President Trump cannot be denied no matter how much the Washington Democrats moan and groan, obstruct and delay.

On a few occasions Trump held two rallies in one day. Each rally seems to come off without a hitch. The pre-planning of Trump’s campaign rally staff along with the advance team of the U.S. Secret Service is unbeatable.

Since Trump became president he has held 67 political rallies, but the one in Panama City, Florida on May 8 will be known as the official kickoff for Trump’s 2020 Campaign to win a second-term.

When the Democrats hold a political rally for presidential candidate front-runners former Vice President Joe Biden and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders those numbers of people in attendance are nowhere near those of Trump rallies. When Biden and Sanders speak there isn’t much electricity in the air. Sanders’ supporters are much more enthusiastic than those of Biden and Sanders has far better drawing power than Biden – but it’s doubtful either one will be nominated by the Democratic Party.

Only about 600 people showed up for Biden’s Campaign 2020 kickoff held at a firefighter’s union hall in Philadelphia – a liberal stronghold. Biden blew his campaign kickoff with a short video released on social media and picked up by mainstream media that clearly attacked President Trump with all sorts of phony racist statements bringing up the ugly and deadly Charlottesville, Virginia protests that broke out over the removal of a statue of Civil War Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee.

Sanders also blew his campaign kickoff with crazy statements about allowing convicted felons in prison to vote in local, state and federal elections no matter what crimes they committed. That did not go over well Bernie. Even your fellow Democrats cringed at that one.

It’s plain to see that neither Biden nor Sanders have the drawing power to fill any and all public venues and they are terrified of holding similar-type Trump rallies in larger venues because it would be seriously embarrassing not to fill Yankee Stadium or the Astrodome. All those empty seats would speak volumes.

In the coming months it’s a sure bet President Trump will keep holding more and more political campaign rallies in bigger and bigger venues across America. It’s also a sure bet that the Democratic candidates seeking the presidency must find a way to draw large crowds consistently like Trump does and fire up their base, but there is no smoke coming from the Democrats so there is no fire.

Neither Biden nor Sanders are much of a threat to President Trump with his booming economy and historically low unemployment rate across the board. The biggest threat to this president will be voter fraud and other dirty tricks in Blue states, Blue cities and Blue voting districts.

It’s a sure bet that extensive voter fraud conspiracies are being planned right now in those smoke-filled back rooms of the Democratic National Committee. The Democrats can go on and on about eliminating the Electoral College, but in 2020 whoever wins the Electoral College wins!

Britt Nelson relocated to Costa Rica in 2011 from Florida, where he served as news editor for the Palatka Daily News, a newspaper owned by the New York Times Regional Newspaper Group (NYT-RNG) for 20 years.

Nelson served the NYT-RNG for 18 years in Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida as a correspondent, reporter, staff writer, senior staff writer training new reporters, copy editor, page designer, editorial writer, editorial page editor and editorial board member

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