Vice President Kamala Harris has reportedly smashed her own rally crowd size record for the second time in just 24 hours.
Harris headlined a jam-packed event, attended by around 23,000 people in Clarkston, Georgia, on Thursday night, beating out her campaign's previous attendance record of about 17,000 in Greensboro, North Carolina, last month.
The vice president's record was broken again on Friday night at a star-studded rally at Shell Energy Stadium in Houston. Celebrities in attendance included megastar Beyoncé, whose song "Freedom" has been heavily used by the Harris campaign.
The Harris team said around 30,000 supporters filled the Texas rally, according to multiple reports. The venue has a seating capacity of just over 22,000, although it typically hosts outdoor sporting events and many Harris supporters were standing on the field Friday.
Trump campaign communications director Steven Cheung argued in a post to X, formerly Twitter, that the event was really "a Beyonce concert," suggesting that any media coverage of the large crowd would amount to an attempt to "gaslight" those who believe Harris "could never" draw a large crowd.
This is a developing story and will be updated as further information becomes available.
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