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GOP nominee Ron DeSantis was met with a large number of empty seats at a meet and greet event in Iowa, photos shared online have revealed.

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[–] thal3s@sh.itjust.works 160 points 1 year ago (14 children)
[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 66 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Half those people are news media

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 51 points 1 year ago
[–] ThirdWorldOrder@feddit.nl 58 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I was going to say, this looks like an event when people first enter and doesn’t mean much. Then I saw DeSantis down at the bottom actually speaking and laughed.

Probably more farm animals there than people.

[–] tburkhol@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago

> Probably more farm animals there than people.

That's Iowa for you.

[–] HuddaBudda@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

I had to do a triple check on that, my first thought was that this was probably taken before the event, but there he is, right below the American flag, with the white shirt.

[–] keeb420@kbin.social 15 points 1 year ago

There was a braying jackass on stage. So you may be right

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lmao that’s not just “swathes of empty seats”. That’s “only a dozen or so people showed up”.

[–] ShakyPerception@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

Don’t worry, it’s not him. It’s those damn woke liberals from Iowa that are stopping people from getting to the event with all their… wokeness. (…wokness? ….wokenness? ….wokenism?)

[–] TicklishRocket@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

And the few there look like the media lol

[–] bauhaus@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

[sad nazi trombone]

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Haha! Holy shit!

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's more people at my families Thanksgiving dinner than this

[–] GeekFTW@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Legit just played a 2fort game on TF2 that had might have had more people than this photo.

[–] WarmSoda@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

I've had more customizable bots in one game of Perfect Dark on the Nintendo64 than there are people in this photo.

[–] torknorggren@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago
[–] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

I've seen family reunions with more people.

[–] theodewere@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

lol arena, dude that's an itty bitty livestock market.. where they auction off beef! lawl he couldn't be more of a loser..

[–] cassetti@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you - that's the money shot I wanted to see.

[–] iquanyin@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i wish the media would stop pretending he’s a contender. he’s not and he never has been. someone noted he was unpopular everywhere, even in florida, and they noted it almost two years ago. anyone with knowledge on it knows this. and trump isn’t a contender either. the gop basically has no viable person to put up as potential president because the party is too degraded at this point. it’s not an actual party that wants to govern. it’s a bunch of oligarchs funding dipshits in order to rule.

[–] Kaliax@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 year ago

Fucking lol. I like this.

[–] drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 10 points 1 year ago

This picture has made my day. Thanks

[–] Elivey@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

What's great about this is it isn't a carefully taken image of one section of an auditorium that happened to be more empty, you can see almost the entire seating area.

And it wasn't taken before or after because there he is, up front with a microphone in the white shirt saying his spiel. Lol