When the campaign for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) claimed she drew 12,000 to an event in Minnesota and 15,000 to an event in Washington state, skeptics derided the estimates as overblown.
When President Donald Trump made a similar claim about a rally in New Hampshire, it was also met with derision. But a local fire official went on the record to support the claim, noting Trump broke the all-time attendance record at the venue that was set in 2004.
