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With more than 19,000 people in portland. >> he is getting the biggest crowds and i'm getting the biggest crowds. we're the two getting the crowds. >> reporter: i talked to quite a few people that were lined up early here today to get into this event. they told me they are not here just to gawk or to catch a glimpse of a celebrity. they genuinely want donald trump to be the next president of the united states. jim? >> ryan nobles in the middle of it there. donald trump making quite the entrance tonight. he actually flew by the stadium, even flew around it, a few laps of the stadium. rene marsh...

Will be speaking here. the campaign has been hoping for a huge crowd saying they got more than 40,000 rsvps. so far that crowd still filing in is much, much smaller. we will take you there live as soon as trump starts speaking. ryan nobles is "outfront" at that rally. what does the scene look like? not the crowd at least yet that the trump campaign had been talking about. >> reporter: that's right. this is a pretty incredible spectacle, no doubt. keep in mind, for quite a while the trump campaign had been boasting that they had rsvp-ed 40,000 people to attend tonight. even there were 6,000 peo...

Venue by the time trump speaks. regardless, this is still going to be an impressive showing. we probably are talking somewhere 15,000 to 20,000 people that are going to show up, which is going to make it one of the biggest campaign rallies so far. the idea that a presidential campaign can draw this large of a crowd is impressive. but trump playing the expectations game here today. probably could have filled a 10,000 seat arena which they were going to be in. now moving to this big stadium, the crowd doesn't look as impressive. regardless, it's a big crowd here tonight. >> a few minutes to go n...

Begin. first ryan nobles is "outfront" live in the middle of the stadium. awe bei the crowd looks light. when we spoke to you last time -- are there still lines? are the seats getting filled? >> reporter: jim, this probably isn't as big a crowd as we expected for this stage of the event. as you can take a look, we're going to show you how big this football stadium is. there's going to be a lot of empty seats. keep in mind that this is about a 50,000 seat stadium. if they were going to deliver the 40,000 people that they claimed they were going to deliver, all of these seats that you are seeing...