Vice President Kamala Harris is falsely claiming her Tuesday rally in Washington, D.C., drew 100,000 attendees. According to law enforcement, the total number screened for entry for the event—which took place in The Ellipse Park just outside the White House—was just 40,000 people.
A Harris campaign permit for the park only cited 20,000 attendees; however, it is believed that number was increased just days before the campaign rally. In addition to the 40,000 individuals screened for entry into The Ellipse Park, law enforcement estimates there could have been upwards of 20,000 individuals outside the event on the slope near the Washington Monument.
Even with the non-screened attendees, Harris overestimates the crowd by almost half. Meanwhile, the Harris campaign officially estimates attendees to be about 75,0000—still well short of Harris’s 100,000 claim.
While Harris sought to use the pageantry and backdrop of The Ellipse rally to make her closing case for the presidency, it was her boss, the 81-year-old incumbent Joe Biden, who stole the news cycle. Just moments after the rally and a few hundred yards away, Biden held a video call for the Harris campaign in the White House with the far-left Voto Latino group.
During the call, Biden—now infamously—referred to Americans who support President Donald J. Trump as “garbage.” In the immediate aftermath, the White House communications team attempted to manipulate a transcript of the video call—exacerbating the scandal and potentially committing a federal crime.