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Miles Archer

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Sat Dec 24, 2016, 10:21 PM Dec 2016

The "all time record" Inauguration attendance Trump wants projected at 1/2 of Obama 2009 [View all]



WASHINGTON — In a tweet a week ago, Donald Trump urged his fans to head to Washington to see him get sworn in on Jan. 20.

"Let's set the all time record!" tweeted the president-elect.

But planners who are gearing up for the big day predict that Trump will fall way short of his goal: They're estimating a crowd of roughly 800,000, fewer than half the 1.8 million people who attended President Barack Obama's first inauguration in 2009.

"It's not even close to a record," said Jim Bendat, a California expert on presidential inauguration history, who wrote a book on the subject.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/12/donald-trump-wants-a-record-crowd-for-his-inauguration-but-he-may-be-disappointed/
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