They are Trump groupies. No, they are not locals who came to the rally, but neither were most of the people in the mail-order ticket sections of Grateful Dead concerts.

While it is fun, as in the first response in this thread, to "make shit up" on the basis of no actual evidence, the long term result of "making shit up" as a messaging strategy is not very good.

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/campaign-wire-election-2020/card/1560885719

No Ordinary Joes in the Front Row of Trump's Rally

They call themselves the “Front Row Joes,” the handful of men and women who are the most frequent attendees at President Trump’s campaign rallies and save each other spots at the front of the lines to get to be first into the arena. Several of them have been to at least 50 rallies.

Richard Snowden, a 68-year-old entrepreneur and former nightclub owner, took the red-eye from Las Vegas on Sunday night, stepped off the plane in Orlando on Monday and headed straight for the Amway Center. He was in line by 7:50 a.m., roughly 36 hours before Mr. Trump’s rally started.

Mr. Snowden, who’s attended 54 rallies, said he has long been interested in politics. Mr. Snowden is the rare Trump die-hard to acknowledge even slight doubts about the re-election. He said he’s worried most about South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg, who is somewhat Trump-like in that he has the ability to take people by surprise this campaign, he said.

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Libby DePiero, a 64-year-old retiree from Connecticut, has been to more than 50 rallies and Trump events. Over the past several years, she’s made solo drives in her Ford sedan to rallies in Michigan and Indiana, stopping along the way to overnight with fellow Trump supporters she’d met at rallies. Her favorite stops have been in Pennsylvania.

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5. More of them are identified in this article

Reply to Kingofalldems (Original post)

Wed Nov 27, 2019, 06:57 PM

Nov 2019

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/front-row-joes-trump-supporters-rate-president/

Meet the "Front Row Joes," Trump supporters who camp out for rallies

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They are people who basically have no life, and follow the Trump tour like some Deadheads who got the really, really bad acid.

Plus, they are organized:

Do you see that hashtag #FRJ? That's their tag.

So, yes, the same people keep turning up for these things but, no, they aren't local supporters. They are simply groupies which any traveling road show attracts. It really doesn't do anyone any good to make shit up about them being "fake" unless you have some evidence to that effect other than "That's what I prefer to think."

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