Trump NH Rally: 25% of Attendees Were Democrats, 17% Didn’t Vote in 2016

Hillary Clinton defeated President Trump in New Hampshire by a razor thin margin of 46.8% to 46.5% in 2016, or by fewer than 3,000 votes. The Libertarian Party’s Gary Johnson garnered nearly 31,000 votes (4.1% of total), more than the margin Trump lost by. Johnson is worth mentioning because he’s more likely to have taken votes away from Trump than Clinton (while a candidate like the Green Party’s Jill Stein takes more votes away from Democrats than Republicans).

Trump’s campaign manager Brad Parscale has made a habit out of collecting data on the attendees to Trump’s rallies, and the numbers from those at New Hampshire shows President Trump continuing to attract a broad coalition of voters heading into the November election.

According to Parscale, the stats from New Hampshire are as follows:

52,559 tickets were sold

24,732 voters were identified/polled (41% of which were from New Hampshire)

17% of attendees didn’t vote in 2016

25.4% of attendees were Democrats

This is in line with data from other recent rallies in key swing states (and New Jersey):

At President Trump’s rally in Ohio, nearly half of attendees were either Democrats or independents. Twenty-three percent identified as Democrats, while 20.9% identified as independents.

At President Trump’s rally in Wisconsin, the majority of attendees (57.8%) were not Republicans.

And at President Trump’s rally in Wildwood, New Jersey, 26.3% of attendees were Democrats, and 10% didn’t vote in 2016.


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