On Saturday, Bernie Sanders posted a video of what he claims was a crowd of 34,000 who turned out for a rally hosted by himself and Alexandria Ocasio Cortez:
Here’s the Video clip:
Sanders and AOC spent much of last week holding similar rallies in various locations around the country in an effort to gin up discontent with the Trump administration and the DOGE operation led by Elon Musk.
But how much of the turnout to these rallies was organic, and were the crowd-size estimates claimed by the politicians accurate? The answers to these questions are as follows.