Trump 'freaked out' by more than just the collapse of rally crowd size: Morning Joe

While discussing the problems Donald Trump is having attracting fans to attend his campaign rallies, "Morning Joe" co-host Joe Scarborough pointed out an even bigger problem for the embattled former president

During the Thursday morning segment about Trump's "cash crunch," contributor Sam Stein claimed he was struck by the lack of enthusiasm for Trump compared to his 2016 and 2020 campaigns.

That, in turn, led Scarborough to point out that Trump's small donor base is crashing which has the former president "freaking out."

"You can tell this not as enthusiastic a run as four years ago or eight years ago. You guys remember the arena in Manchester, right? 2016 — it was sold out, right? The entire thing." Stein recalled. "I went again this cycle. They had a huge curtain to cut off about a quarter of the arena, and they didn't have the top sections [open] no one was allowed to sit there. I thought to myself, you know, the enthusiasm is not quite the same, and I think that hurts Trump on the donor level, too because he has been so reliant on small dollar donations in a way that other Republicans can't."

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Scarborough jumped in and said that "I'll tell you what freaks Trump out even more is the fact that his small donors, which is absolutely critical in campaigns, small donors have dropped by 200,000 people! 200,000 donors from this part of the campaign to four years ago."

"That is a staggering number cited from the 'Financial Times,' out with a report," co-host Wille Geist interjected. "In the second half of 2019, Donald Trump had 740,000 donors. In the second half of 2023 — so four years later, ahead of an election year — he had 516,000 donors."

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