it s because donald trump got his anti-immigrant politics delivered to him, special delivery from that man in alabama. and now he is riding that anti-immigrant wave to its natural home. in a football stadium in alabama that he s been able to, i think slightly less than half fill, even though today he bragged he was going to be able to fill it all the way. joining us now is nbc s katy tur in mobile, alabama where donald trump is making these remarks tonight. thank you for joining us. is it fun? well, yes. it s always interesting at the at least when you are going out with donald trump. you never know what he will say. the people you speak with have a variety of interesting positions and it s always surprising to talk to people who contradict each other many of the times. a lot of people come out saying the worst thing he could do is endorse obama or to endorse obama or not endorse but say
we do not know the exact number yet, or if the fire marshal will give an official estimate. nbc s reporter on the scene katy tur estimates on the generous side tonight, the crowd is 20,000 to see donald trump, which means the expectation game was actually turned upside down for him tonight. with all the bragging about what a big room, abig arena he needed to fill, raising expectations throughout the course of the day how thousands of people wanted to go see donald trump, he ended up talking to a large crowd of people but one that didn t look like that big in context because the arena is so big. if you are in a room that seats 50 thourk people, 20,000 doesn t look like much. if you are in a room that seats 20,000, 20,000 looks like a ton. because donald trump is now such a clear front runner for the republican nomination, because he s leading in states across the country and has been leading in the national republican polls
all about himself when he speaks and a billionaire who buzzed this place in a 5757 and lives in a golden tower in manhattan he is more of one of him than many in the campaign because he is an outsider. rachel? katy tur, nbc news correspondent in mobile tonight, thank you very much. appreciate it. donald trump wrapping up his remarks right now in mobile. let s go and listen to him wrap up these events. thank you. thank you very much. we re not going to take it no we ain t gonna take it we re not gonna take it anymore we ve got the right to choose it [music]
wrapping up what was expected today to be the largest single event that any candidate had done thus far in the 2016 race for the presidential nomination. it was not. it was the largest venue reserved by any candidate for any speech in the presidential campaign thus far. donald trump reserving this venue tonight with 40,000 seats. i thought it was 50 thourk seat stadium but katy tur reported 40,000. but donald trump did not come anywhere near to filling it up. according to our reports on the ground it was about half full generously speaking. that means best case scenario, turned out 20,000 people tonight which means even on the biggest of all republican events on this huge stage tonight, no republican, including donald trump here tonight has been able to get anywhere near the largest crowds turned out by democratic rth vth independent socialist senator bernie sanders who turned out crowds of almost