CBS Hypes Harris's Crowd Size, Pans Trump's 'Ominous Music'

Alex Christy | October 26, 2024
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Senior White House correspondent Ed O’Keefe joined CBS Saturday Morning to attempt to contrast the two presidential candidates’ Friday night rallies. In O’Keefe’s telling, Kamala Harris had her largest crowd yet, while Donald Trump played “ominous music.”

O’Keefe began declaring crowd size doesn’t matter, but also tried arguing that it does, “They're both here in Michigan today because the Wolverine State begins its early voting. Now, late last night, both of them holding different events. Crowd size isn’t a very good indication of much of anything, but we couldn’t help but notice Harris had her largest campaign crowd to date while Trump, here in Michigan, struggled to keep his around.”

In his recorded report, O’Keefe added, “It was a night of sharp contrast. Vice President Harris before her largest campaign crowd to date, introduced by the singer Beyonce in Houston. While in Northern Michigan, nearly three hours late, former President Donald Trump emerged to ominous music to a depleted crowd that had mostly gone home before he arrived.”

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