This week, both former President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris hosted campaign rallies in Colorado and Arizona, attracting significant crowds.
Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, addressed a full house at the Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center in Aurora, Colorado, on Friday. Meanwhile, Harris, the Democratic nominee, gathered supporters at the Rawhide Event Center in Chandler, Arizona, on Thursday.
Each venue can hold about 10,000 attendees. The Trump campaign reported that all free tickets for the Colorado event were sold out, as noted by The Denver Post, although the exact number of available tickets wasn’t disclosed. In Arizona, organizers estimated around 7,000 supporters attended Harris’s rally, according to The Arizona Republic.
Photos from both rallies suggested comparable crowd sizes. Spectrum News DC reporter Taylor Popielarz commented that Trump’s rally featured “one of the largest crowds I’ve seen in recent months,” sharing images and videos from the event on social media.
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Trump campaign staffer Margo Martin shared a video of the Aurora crowd, stating, “Listen to this crowd!!! They want TRUMP back!”
On the other hand, reporter Bianca Buono from KPNX shared clips from Harris’s rally, showing enthusiastic responses from her supporters, even as temperatures soared to 105 degrees. Washington Post reporter Dylan Wells noted that the heat prompted numerous calls for medics, with some attendees experiencing heat-related issues.
If the Trump event reached maximum capacity while Harris’s attendance figures are accurate, Trump’s rally could have had around 3,000 more people. However, it’s worth mentioning that Trump’s campaign has previously been known to exaggerate crowd sizes.
Recent large crowds at Harris’s rallies prompted Trump to make unfounded allegations about the Democratic campaign misleadingly using AI to create convincing fake crowd images.
Continuing her campaign, Harris toured Arizona—a crucial battleground state—with Trump currently holding a slight 1.4% lead, as reported by an average of recent polls from FiveThirtyEight.
While Arizona remains a battleground, polling indicates that Colorado is leaning towards Harris, with many showing her ahead by double digits. Trump is set to hold another rally in Coachella, California, this Saturday, a state he lost by nearly 30 points in the 2020 election.