Bill Clinton: “We’ve got to run this race to the end.”
In the wake of
Bernie Sanders’ shock win in Indiana, and now substantially narrowed GOP field, the center of the Democratic Party’s political universe is now California.
Since there is currently a
mere two point poll gap between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton, every vote in this state is critical. So, both Clintons will be in California for various events over the next few weeks.
Yesterday, I read that the former President would be in San Diego’s Balboa Park Club for a speech. So I donned by Star Wars t-shirt (May the Fourth be with you) and attempted to blend in with Clinton fans for a on-scene report.
The Balboa Park Club is not a large venue (normally, it has a
500 person capacity). I found parking easily, and made it in time to be about the last a line of what is reported to be
850 attendees(Note: This is less than half of the attendance for the
Ted Cruz and
Bernie Sanders rallies).
While Hillary Clinton supporters were signing in (i.e., giving the campaign contact information), a group of Bernie Sanders supporters were there to entertain them with signs and songs.
Here are the signs:
My camera doesn’t have great video, so here is the song…which apparently is popular with Sanders supporters.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/oLDPkr-mI_MI will note that there were no
Mexican flags visible anywhere.
A few joyous Trump supporters were on hand to wave to the crowd as well.
The doors were open at 9:00 am, and the event was slated to go until 11 am. I was a little surprised that the local Democrats had not arranged a few speakers for the first hour, because the most thrilling moment during the first 60 minutes was a sound check. File this under wasted opportunity.
As I waited for the speech, I noticed that a favored Clinton rally tactic had been used: Herding attendees so that it appears that the crowd is larger than it is. That 500 capacity room was about 2/3rds full at 9:30 am, when I took this shot:
Read more:
http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/05/what-i-saw-at-the-san-diego-clinton-rally-today/
