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The Center for American Progress reports [thinkprogress.org]

Small pockets of supporters gathered [on March 4th] to show the world their overwhelming response to the historic turnout for the Women's March [thinkprogress.org] at rallies across the country. They fell just a bit short.

[...]A local reporter covering state politics [...] estimated that the crowd [in Nashville, Tennessee] was no more than 1,000 people. In a state that voted for Donald Trump by a 61-35 margin, January's [anti-]Trump protest in Nashville had at least 15 times more people in attendance.

Turnout in other cities was even more depressing. In Cleveland, a livestream of their March 4 Trump rally showed a sparse crowd of maybe a few hundred supporters, compared to the 15,000 that turned out to protest him on January 21.

In Connecticut, March 4 Trump attendees appeared to be taking a leisurely stroll down a back road. In Orlando, the Florida Republican party touted "great" turnout above a dimly lit photo of about 200 people (January's protest had 5,000). Denver's ABC affiliate counted "dozens" of people in front of the capital building (January: 145,000). And in Sterling Hill, Michigan, a small crowd was met with a group of counter-protesters carrying signs and flags of their own across the street.

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