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Insider New Jersey reports:
Wildwood officials who were the source for the Associated Press’s reporting that former President Trump drew between 80,000 to 100,000 to a beach front weekend rally now say it was not the number on the beach at the rally per se, but rather it was the number of people “in our town.”
Lisa Fagan, the Wildwood press spokesperson AP originally cited as the source for the original crowd estimate was quoted as saying the eye-popping estimate was “based off her own observations on the scene Saturday, having seen ‘dozens’ of other events in the same space.”
Five days later, when asked to explain the wide variance between the AP reporting and the NJ.com video that reveals a crowd in the few thousands, Fagan provided a statement from Mayor Troiano at odds with what the wire service initially attributed to Fagan.
Read the full article. Trump and top Republicans continued this weekend to claim that the rally drew 107,000 people.
Wildwood official backtracks and says the 80,000 person estimate during the Trump event was not how many people were at the rally, but rather the total number of people in the entire town on that day, including in bars, restaurants, and on the boardwalk. pic.twitter.com/EvUcxwR8bE
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Trump promotes his New Jersey rally on Saturday, but he left out he was invited by former Mayor Ernie V. Troiano Jr., who was indicted for defrauding taxpayers via health insurance fraud.https://t.co/E2gaOBpHZ4 pic.twitter.com/cNs3TQc9om
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