They didn’t cap tickets to the event. So the real issue is that despite billions of tickets that could have been purchased, only 6200 bothered to show.
In a deep red state.
Let’s see how the rest of his rallies go
And don't forget, surrounded mostly by other red states. Also, just to clarify, no tickets were "purchased". This is an RSVP system. So a bunch of fakes, and some real RSVP'd to this event.
And only 6,200 showed up.
So the amount of fakes definitely made it challenging for them to plan for the appropriate number of people that would actually attend.
But there's more to it than that.
This happens for every event Dem and Rep. Lots of fakes, lots of people that RSVP to "show support" but don't actually intend to come.
It's the job of a competent campaign manager and team to sift through those numbers and determine the venue and logistics.
First, it couldn't have been incredibly difficult to discard a large majority of the fakes. They say they cross-reference by cell phone number and or/email. . So if it was Kpop involved, a lot of those were probably overseas RSVP's. Easily discarded.
Any individual RSVP'ing dozens of times, easily discarded. A insane amount of new logins and emails/numbers that they already don't have in their system, should have been a HUGE red flag especially at this level.
Also, these RSVP's always come with a donation ask. Like I just RSVP'd and donated to the Biden/Obama virtual event next week. So there again, is a major way to weed out fakes and real.
Then, you have to calculate what percentage of RSVP's usually actually attend. Maybe it's 50% or 25%, Who knows. But that's the job of campaign.
So maybe they were able to get rid of a lot of fakes, but not all, and they figured 100k were real, and 50% of that is 50k, and they planned for that. Who knows.
Or, they are so up Trump's ass, that all they cared about was reporting to him how many RSVP's they got, and didn't really do their due diligence.
Whatever the case. This was a screw up at the Manager/campaign level. And beyond that showed just how few of the truly die hard, sleep on the street, die of a virus Trump cult members there are.
It will be interesting if they even have another rally soon. This has to have shell-shocked them a bit. I can see Trump suddenly using "safe social distancing" as an excuse not to hold another one. Which would be hilarious, but irony and shame never stopped these people before.