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How many people went to a No Kings rally last weekend? It’s impossible to know from reading news coverage. Some publications reported there were about 7 million Americans who turned up at the protests, although the provenance of that number appears to be the No Kings website , hardly an impartial source.

The Guardian reported between 4 and 6 million. The Atlantic, in its photo gallery, went with “ millions ." Statistician G. Elliott Morris, who runs the Substack “Strength in Numbers,” wrote , “Our median estimate is that 5.2 million people participated in a No Kings Day demonstration somewhere in the country on Saturday

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