National Baptist Convention organizers shrunk the room by one-third after fewer people turned out than expected to hear Hillary Clinton.
Frank Morris, national correspondent for KCUR, tweeted a photo showing a worker moving walls to shrink the meeting room in Kansas City.
Workers cutting the room down by a third with lower than expected turnout for #clintonkc speech. pic.twitter.com/L60YFfBpO1
— Frank Morris (@FrankNewsman) September 8, 2016
“Workers cutting down the room by a third with lower than expected turnout for (Clinton in Kansas City) speech,” Morris reported.
A perhaps more brutal image shows a vast amount of empty seats during her speech.
Brian Abel of 41 Action News tweeted several photos showing the cavernous empty room.
Here are the requested "during speech" pics of KC convention hall pic.twitter.com/ZRGOm77xnO
— Brian Abel (@BrianAbelTV) September 8, 2016
Abel also reported organizers turned off lights in larger portions of the hall to make it look smaller:
Convention hall turned out lights in un-occupied part of hall for @HillaryClinton speech, now partitioning it off pic.twitter.com/O5Az8EfiRD
— Brian Abel (@BrianAbelTV) September 8, 2016
KCTV’s Betsy Webster noticed the same thing. “Attendance less than planned,” she tweeted.
Abel noted there was only about 20% turnout for Clinton.
Front of press constituted 10 rows. 14 seats per section, 6 sections. Less than 1,000 of the >5k setup https://t.co/C6BcyCIl9F
— Brian Abel (@BrianAbelTV) September 8, 2016
“Less than 1,000 of the (more than) 5,000 setup,” he reported.
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