Donald Trump Met With Multiple Empty Seats During Final Georgia Rally

There were multiple empty seats at Donald Trump’s final rally in the crucial swing state of Georgia on Sunday, footage and photos show.
Rally attendance and crowd size have been major topics in the run-up to Tuesday’s election.
During the presidential candidates’ debate on TV on September 13, Vice President Kamala Harris said people leave Trump’s events “out of exhaustion and boredom”—something the former president has pushed back on multiple times since.
Clips posted on X, formerly Twitter, showed several empty seats at the Atrium Health Amphitheater in the city of Macon, where Trump was speaking over the weekend.
Local newspaper The Macon Telegraph reported that people started leaving the stadium during Trump’s closing words. The former president stopped talking a few minutes after 9.30 p.m.
Newsweek has contacted Trump’s team, via email outside of working hours, for comment.
The videos, posted by accounts including Harris’ official campaign account KamalaHQ, seem to have been taken toward the end of the Republican nominee’s speech, when he was talking about how he believed Americans should vote.
“We should have one-day voting, with paper ballots, voter ID and proof of citizenship,” Trump could be heard saying in KamalaHQ’s post.
This was just a few minutes before Trump wrapped up and stopped speaking, according to a full transcript of his speech.
Things are looking very tight in Georgia polls, with polling aggregator FiveThirtyEight putting Trump at 48.6 percent and Harris at 47.1 percent.
FiveThirtyEight has Trump ahead in the other swing states of Arizona (49.1 percent over Harris’ 46.5 percent), Nevada (47.9 percent over Harris’ 47.1 percent), North Carolina (48.4 percent over Harris’ 47.2 percent) and Pennsylvania by a razor-thin margin (47.9 percent over Harris’ 47.7 percent).
Meanwhile, the aggregator has put Harris ahead in Michigan (47.9 percent over Trump’s 47.1 percent) and Wisconsin (48.2 percent over Trump’s 47.4 percent).
Trump has one more day to grapple with the voting gender gap, with Newsweek analysis showing a strong preference for Harris among women.
Newsweek looked at the national polls since October 28 that provide a breakdown of voting intention based on gender and found that, on average, women break for Harris by 8 points, while men break for Trump by 10 points. That amounts to an average gender gap of 9 points.
According to Newsweek’s analysis, polls show that, on average, Harris has the support of 52 percent of female voters and 43 percent of male voters. Meanwhile 53 percent of male voters back Trump compared to 44 percent of female voters.
The gender gap is not a new phenomenon. Women have been more likely to support the Democrats and men have been more likely to support the Republicans since the 1980s, and this political divide has only grown over time. But this year the divide could have significant implications for the election result due to how close the race currently stands.
On Monday, the last day before the election, Trump will rally in Raleigh in North Carolina, Grand Rapids in Michigan, and Reading and Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, according to his official schedule.
Meanwhile, his running mate JD Vance will be in La Crosse in Wisconsin, Flint in Michigan, Atlanta in Georgia, and Newtown, Pennsylvania.