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Trump Works Some New Material (But Mostly Old), Out Of Town, In Front Of Small Crowd
But the real story may be how an online effort by teens may have really bolloxed up things for Trump and his campaign.
About a week ago, a friend of ours told us his son was registering for tickets for Trump’s rally, so that his campaign would think many more people were planning to come than actually would show.
Frankly, we didn’t think much of it at the time. The reason we didn’t is because we thought it would just give Trump’s team big numbers to brag on, and then a sufficient number of people would show up to pack the arena anyway. (Come to think of it, that’s probably what Trump’s team was thinking too.)
Shame on us. Especially since we’d just written, in a story about how Kpop fans had amassed online and thwarted police efforts to do visual IDs on protestors that tweens/teens:
”Potentially have unfathomable resources stretching across global lines and slicing through many traditional political and societal edifices. It’ll just be a question of how they chose to use that power and innovation.”
Well, they proved themselves Saturday night. Despite boasting of record “data haul” and 1,000,000 applications for tickets…
