Fact Check: Elizabeth Warren Crowd Was 6,000 at Most, not 12,000Joel B. Pollak and Penny Starr
20 Aug 2019
CLAIM: The presidential campaign of Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) claims that she drew 12,000 people to a town hall meeting on the campus of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, on Monday evening.
VERDICT: The crowd size was closer to 4,000, and probably 6,000 at most. ...
The Warren campaign claims 12,000 attended her town hall at Macalester. That number was repeated by HuffPost, though its source was a tweet by the Warren campaign itself.
The 12,000 figure was never independently confirmed and is probably wrong. It also fits a pattern of (modest) exaggeration by the Warren campaign in recent weeks. ...
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