Kamala Harris Draws Massive Crowd at Ellipse, Notches Larger Audience Than Trump’s Jan. 6 Rally in Same Spot, Campaign Says

Vice President Kamala Harris delivered remarks in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday night in front of a massive crowd where she made her closing argument to voters at The Ellipse ahead of next week’s election.

The Harris campaign estimated the size of the crowd to be more than 75,000 people, which would make it a markedly larger assembly than the one former President Donald Trump spoke to on Jan. 6, 2021, when he urged then-Vice President Mike Pence to refuse to certify the results of the 2020 election as the presiding officer in Congress. After Pence refused, a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol.

According to the House Jan. 6 Committee that investigated the riot and Trump’s efforts to overturn the election, 53,000 people attended the former president’s “Stop the Steal” rally.

Trump has been obsessed with crowd sizes since he first declared his candidacy in 2015. He once baselessly claimed his Jan. 6 crowd size was as big or bigger than the 1963 March on Washington when Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech in front of around 250,000 people.

Former President Barack Obama mocked Trump’s fixation with rally sizes at the Democratic National Convention in August.

“It has been a constant stream of gripes and grievances that’s actually been getting worse now that he’s afraid of losing to Kamala,” he said. “There’s the childish nicknames, the crazy conspiracy theories, this weird obsession with crowd sizes.”

As he spoke about crowd sizes, the former president held up his hands and moved them closer to one another, as if to suggest that Trump’s fixation on “size” is not confined to crowds.

The day after Trump’s inauguration in January 2017, then-White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer falsely claimed to reporters that the inauguration crowd was the largest in history.