NYT’s W.H. Correspondent: Darline Graham’s Rally Had ‘Really, Really Low’ Energy with People Complaining About the Economy

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McCREESH: “And, you know, usual caveats apply. It was the middle of August, and he did end up helping her get across the finish line, but I‘ve been to a hundred of these things, I have to tell you, the energy in the room was really, really low. The place was not packed. The seats were full, but the back half of the convention center was empty. And I was going around talking to people, doing interviews, and usually at a Trump rally, you have to scratch kind of hard and ask four or five or six questions to get the people who were there to say anything sort of nuanced or, you know, truthful about how they really feel about something going on with him. On this one, it was like one question, 'How do you think it‘s going so far?' And a lot of them were saying things like, 'Rusty,' 'The economy‘s not as good as I thought it was going to be,' 'He‘s not focused enough.' And these are people wearing t-shirts with pictures of his face on it. So I just had not seen anything like that before, and I thought it was a real sign of trouble for him."