The former president claimed he gathered a record crowd at the annual event, though official attendance numbers show it was close to the average.
's team boasted about the former president gathering a record crowd compared to all other presidential candidates at the event—but the actual numbers don't seem to back them up.
As of August 10, Trump remained ahead in the race for the Republican nomination, with an estimated 53.4 percent of the vote, according to polling aggregator FiveThirtyEight. DeSantis, who has established himself as the former president's main rival, trailed him with 14.3 percent of the vote—a drop from the 21.5 percent mark he reached the month before, on July 10.
He repeated that the crowd was the biggest that ever showed up at the event, adding that he was"very happy" about it. The next day, he boasted about the size of the crowd on his social media platform, Truth Social.
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