by Victor Skinner, American Thinker:

A “progressive media company” is calling out former vice president Joe Biden’s campaign for struggling to fill 100-seat venues, and using seat fillers to pack the house when folks neglect to show.

Status Coup, which bills itself as a progressive media company focused on investigative reporting, posted a video to Twitter Monday that shows how the Biden campaign set the stage at the IBEW Local 396 in Las Vegas.

At a @JoeBiden campaign event in Nevada, Status Coup caught on video an attendee saying he was asked to be a seat filler.

“They said we need seat fillers. What is this the Oscars?”

FULL REPORT via @MarquisEaly: https://t.co/MiGbqHs1bZ pic.twitter.com/3g208C7Vuo

— Status Coup (@StatusCoup) July 22, 2019

“At a @JoeBiden campaign event in Nevada, Status Coup caught on video an attendee saying he was asked to be a seat filler,” Status Coup posed with the video. “’They said we need seat filler. What is this the Oscars?’”

The video shows a Hispanic man in conversation with someone off camera shortly before the event was set to begin.

“The event was held at IBEW Local 396 (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers),” Status Coup tweeted. “We believe this gentleman was a union worker.”

“I noticed about five minutes ago, oh it filled up. Then I looked over there and thought that was quick,” the man off camera said in the video.

“They say we need seat fillers. I was like ‘What is this, the Oscars?’” the Hispanic man replied with a hardy laugh.

Status Coup’s Marquis Ealy, who was recording, then followed up with the gentleman to discuss the situation.

“They told you to be a seat filler?” Ealy questioned.

“Ya,” the Hispanic man said. “Well, not really. It’s just they have more people coming, it’s just for now in case he does come in, you know, so it will be full.”

“Ya, because the seats were pretty empty huh?” Ealy goaded.

“Well ya, not anymore,” the man replied.

“Ya, well I guess you guys got so many seat fillers to fill the seats,” Ealy said.

“Actually no, these people are all their invited guests,” the Hispanic man replied, gazing down at the camera.

Status Coup posted a longer video to Periscope and YouTube that shows the size of the crowd in the minutes leading up to Biden’s visit. The footage shows that 14 minutes before the event was set to start, more than 40 of the venue’s 98 seats remained open.

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