they will fall short about the 40,000. the people here are energized and enthused to see donald trump. spoke to a lot of people waiting in line. some as early as 6:00 this morning. they said they re here because they believe donald trump can win the presidency and should be the next president of the united states. john, you know, this originally was scheduled in a venue that seats 1,200. then one that seats 10,000. before moving it here to the football stadium. certainly more than would have fit in the 10,000 seat arena. they will fall short of the goal of 40,000, it looks this is the biggest event donald trump has held or any republican up to this point. ryan nobles for us right there. not 40,000. maybe more than 10,000. but certainly something. the optics of a lot of empty seats maybe not what the campaign wants. ryan noebbles, thank you.
there were 7,000 tweets in a minute. you re not seeing as much in middle america and iowa where, by the way, ryan she s getting on a plane to go to iowa. how does she resonate in iowa in a way she didn t. through offline as well as through online campaigning and this is the announcement everyone expected for months and she was able to control it entirely by having it come out in this video and it was to your point about the iphone. it s a very iphone friendly video or cell phone friendly video and it s an intimate relationship when watching something on the small screen. most people see the announcement on tv and when you share it, it creates that intimacy that this campaign wants. i don t know if my team in the control room has this, and carly fiorina coming out like an hour after hillary clinton posting her own video on facebook. by the way, it looked like it was shot with an iphone, very cas
sure it is especially when you take a poll ever couple of days and put the results on the front page. look, the media are doing more polls than the candidates are right now. look, in august mark halpren of time magazine, certainly a pillar of the media establishment, he s on tv all the time. he wrote that book about the 089 campaign said the media are quote miley susceptible to the obama campaign. what the obama campaign wants, including david plouffe. of course he s happy he s not on the receiving end of this like ryan is. i d like to address that i m die srergt the issue which i don t believe i am. you re setting this up so when romney loses which seems increasingly likely you can blame the media or the pollsters because they skewed too democratic. there is a narrative being developed to try to make an excuse should romney not do well in the election. gregg: don t you think it s not
i would imagine that this might be an admirable thing by some of the fringe voters out there who just cannot stand president obama and want to defeat him at all costs, politically. would he get some kind of strange support from running an ad like this? well, i find it hard to believe that anybody, any kind of decent voter would want to say, i ll support the candidate who s lying to the public. i don t imagine that will happen, at least not much. at least let s hope not. we re talking about mitt romney. not many people have talked about mitt romromney. this is what mitt romney s campaign wants, isn t it? you and i talking about him. just talk about him, you know? what do you think? i think there might be something to that in terms of the strategy. everyone seeing the ad they ve released. it s been played over and over again, not only in terms of paid broadcast, in terms of airtime,
lying. i can t imagine that would happen. at least not much. at least let s not hope so. we re talking about mitt romney. not many people are talking about mitt romney. not many people have talked about mitt romney. this is what his campaign wants, isn t it? you and i talking about him, just talk about him. you know? what do you think? well, i mentioned there might be something to that in terms of the strategy. everyone is saying the ad that they just released. no the only in terms of ad time but news agencies are broadcasting it. it s important to realize that the public is being told throughout the day that mitt romney is caught blatantly lying. that s not necessarily somethinw that the campaign wants to be associated with, especially realizing that looking back over the last several weeks that romney has been caught in a series of lies. and once you have a reputation for dishonesty, it s hard to shake that once your integrity is undermined. speaking of integrity, all of