Last night Trump held a rally and gave a prime time interview, spending a combined 4 minutes kind of making the case for Obamacare repeal.
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) March 16, 2017
I feel better about that decision every day.
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) March 16, 2017
Our own Southern Beale went to that Nashville rally:
Trump’s campaign started robo-calling supporters in a four-county area 48 hours ago offering free tickets. The optics they were going for, of course, was, “thousands of people lined up to get in,” which isn’t as hard as it sounds when your venue is the Municipal Auditorium, not exactly the largest rink in town. However, they got the crowd they wanted: thousands of people were, indeed, lined up … all the way down James Robertson Parkway, all the way up to the state capitol, all the way around the building. I’m guessing there were 15-20,000, but I’ve heard other figures that are higher. Let it be said: most if not all of these folks could have fit inside the Titans’ football stadium. But that wouldn’t have provided Trump with the necessary ego-gratification that comes with a “standing room only/thousands turned away” narrative…
Click over to SB’s blog for more — including photos of the event.
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Apart from catching up, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
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