GOP nominee Ron DeSantis was met with a large number of empty seats at a meet and greet event in Iowa, photos shared online have revealed.
LOL
Lmao that’s not just “swathes of empty seats”. That’s “only a dozen or so people showed up”.
And the few there look like the media lol
I was going to say, this looks like an event when people first enter and doesn’t mean much. Then I saw DeSantis down at the bottom actually speaking and laughed.
Probably more farm animals there than people.
I had to do a triple check on that, my first thought was that this was probably taken before the event, but there he is, right below the American flag, with the white shirt.
There was a braying jackass on stage. So you may be right
Half those people are news media
Or his staff.
What’s great about this is it isn’t a carefully taken image of one section of an auditorium that happened to be more empty, you can see almost the entire seating area.
And it wasn’t taken before or after because there he is, up front with a microphone in the white shirt saying his spiel. Lol
lol arena, dude that’s an itty bitty livestock market… where they auction off beef! lawl he couldn’t be more of a loser…
Please clap.
There’s more people at my families Thanksgiving dinner than this
Legit just played a 2fort game on TF2 that had might have had more people than this photo.
I’ve had more customizable bots in one game of Perfect Dark on the Nintendo64 than there are people in this photo.
[sad nazi trombone]
Fucking lol. I like this.
This picture has made my day. Thanks
I mean… his plan for the USA is basically “WOKE WOKE WOKE WOKE WOKE WOKE WOKE WOKE WOKE” so I’m not surprised at all…
On the other side, Trump’s plan is “ELECTION INTERFERENCE WAAAAA WAAAAA 😭😭 LAPTOP BIDEN HUNTER EMAILS WOKE RADICAL”
Like, Republicans? Are you okay? Dont you have anything better to offer? Yeah I see Trump supporters supporting Trump even harder but the moderates are rushing away from your party. You might have a problem… and don’t come cry to us “voter fraud” after you inevitably lose 2024… look how fucking shitty your ticket is
The problem is a large percentage of Repugnantcans don’t vote for anything. They vote against, with no regard to who or what their votes are going to. They would vote for a microwaved dogshit on toasted Wonder Bread if it meant “oWnInG tHa LiBz!!!”
I get what you say and I understand it but the American people in general didn’t vote for Biden either… they voted against Trump
You could place a green plant with a [D] next to its name on the 2024 ticket and it would still beat Trump because everybody is fucking tired of the constant whining and dramas coming from the GOP
So in a way, we (and moderates) do the same as Republicans… but for better reasons
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It’s the inevitable outcome of a two party system. Only way to fix it is ranked choice voting or similar, but that’ll never happen because the two parties who run the government know they’d be out of power if it was ever put into place
Newsweek. The pinnacle of journalism and shitty websites.
To the extent DeSantis popular, it’s only because he says and does things to “own the libs.” He isn’t a good speaker, he isn’t charismatic, and he doesn’t have actual ideas for accomplishing anything.
The people who end up voting for him in the primaries will be the ones who simply want to piss off liberals, but figure Trump will be in jail.
Unfortunately my mom is a big supporter of his. I don’t understand how such a kind woman can see him as anything other than an utter disgrace
It’s hard to align “kind” with supporting DeSantis policies. Is she a one-issue voter who looks at something like abortion and dismisses everything else? Because the guy is responsible for a lot of suffering.
She used to be, but it seems that the harder the gop goes for fascism, and the more fox lies… well she’s not who she used to be
On one hand, I don’t usually like this criticism because so much of this has to do with the size of the venue. Empty seats in a stadium vs a packed bar are not a good comparison.
On the other hand, after seeing a picture of how tiny the venue is: lol. 
I mean, it’s Ron DeSantis… Even the seats wouldn’t have attended had they not been literally bolted to the floor.
Meanwhile in Trumpland: “Ron, you don’t look good. I had the bigliest crowd, Ron. Yuuuge!”
Remember when Clintons rallies looked like this while Trump filled stadiums? Who fucking cares about this stupid popularity dick measuring contest shit
I think it’s a valid thing to pay attention to, and your example supports that, doesn’t contradict it. In the early part of the 2016 election, Clinton was considered a shoe in against Trump. But Trump excited his base h he filled stadiums - while the support for Clinton was much less enthusiastic. And, as we know all too well, Clinton lost.
So yes, seeing the kinds of crowds a candidate draws is one measure that’s worth looking at. It’s not the whole thing, for sure, especially when some candidates aren’t above paying people to attend.
