{"id":35419,"date":"2019-02-11T23:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T23:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35419"},"modified":"2019-02-11T23:00:58","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T23:00:58","slug":"donald-vs-beto-battle-of-crowd-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35419","title":{"rendered":"Donald vs. Beto: battle of crowd size?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Donald Trump will stage a rally soon in El Paso to talk about his desire to build The Wall along our southern border.<\/p>\n<p>Beto O&#8217;Rourke, who might challenge Trump in 2020, is going to stage a counter rally to say that his hometown is safer than Trump is saying it is.<\/p>\n<p>So, how might we compare these two events?<\/p>\n<p>Trump likes to boast about the size of his crowds. If he pulls more listeners than O&#8217;Rourke, you can bet the farm he&#8217;ll highlight that aspect of his rally. If O&#8217;Rourke&#8217;s crowd is larger, well, POTUS will keep quiet about it.<\/p>\n<p>Consider this factoid, which might not matter at all: Trump&#8217;s 2016 percentage of the presidential vote in El Paso County totaled <em>26<\/em> percent. Beto did a <em>whole lot better<\/em> than that in his 2018 campaign effort against U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump will stage a rally soon in El Paso to talk about his desire to build The Wall along our southern border. Beto O&#8217;Rourke, who might challenge Trump in 2020, is going to stage a counter rally to say that his hometown is safer than Trump is saying it is. So, how might we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35419\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Donald vs. Beto: battle of crowd size?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7932],"tags":[7043,1424,4784],"class_list":["post-35419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","tag-beto-orourke","tag-donald-trump","tag-the-wall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35420,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35419\/revisions\/35420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}