Donald Trump attracted an estimated 11,000 people to a Pennsylvania hockey arena Friday night, and quickly boasted that unlike Hillary Clinton he didn't have to share top-billing with a singer to lure in the crowds.

'We are gonna win Pennsylvania big!' he said as he surveyed the nearly packed house in the famed chocolate town of Hershey. 'Look at this. I hear we set a new record for this building!'

'And by the way, I didn't have to bring J-Lo or Jay-Z – the only way she gets anybody,' the Republican presidential nominee boasted. 'I'm here all by myself. Just me. No guitar, no piano, no nothing.'

'But you know what we do have? And it's all of us. It's all the same. We have great ideas and great vision for our country.'

Crucial votes: Donald Trump attracted an estimated 11,000 people to a Hershey, Pennsylvania hockey arena Friday (above) for a rally

Trump (above) quickly boasted that unlike Hillary Clinton, he didn't have to share top-billing with a singer to lure in the crowds

At the rally, he hugged the mother of child who was a passionate Trump supporter and died in a recent car accident (above)

At about the same time, Hillary Clinton was set to share the stage with Jay Z and Beyoncé in Cleveland, Ohio – a heavily Democratic hotbed that she desperately needs to mobilize if she is to have any chance of winning the Buckeye State on Tuesday.

On Sunday she'll go back to northeastern Ohio for a get-out-the-vote rally with Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James.

Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, a noted pollster, made a first-time appearance as a warm-up speaker – highly unusual for someone in her role – and said the ordinarily Clinton-friendly Pennsylvania was 'a dead heat'.

While surveying the packed house, Trump (above) said: 'We are gonna win Pennsylvania big! Look at this. I hear we set a new record for this building!'

Prior to the billionaire taking the stage, Kellyanne Conway, his campaign manager, spoke beforehand to the large crowd at the rally in Hershey on Friday (above)

Then she looked around her at the sea of faces and campaign signs.

'When I look at this packed house, I'm reminded of a joke we have on the campaign that when Donald Trump visits a venue, he attracts the largest crowd in history for someone who doesn't play an instrument and doesn't play a sport,' she said.

Friday's Beyoncé and Jay Z event drew 10,000, less than the full capacity of Cleveland State University's Wolstein Center.

That was less than Trump's solo act.

Earlier in the day she attracted just 2,539 people for a speech in the concourse under Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, with no entertainment to offer but herself.

Trump appeared happy when he walked onto the stage at the rally on Friday (above)

Thousands filled the Giant Center in Hershey to hear The Donald speak at the rally on Friday (above)

In between those stops came a joint appearance with 'Shark Tank' personality Mark Cuban in Detroit, which 4,137 attended.

On Thursday night Trump drew a crowd of 17,500 to tiny Selma, North Carolina. An hour's drive away in the city of Raleigh, Clinton needed the help of Pharrell Williams to pull in 4,180.

The pattern repeats itself: Wednesday in Tempe, Arizona, 15,000 people showed up to see Clinton on stage with music and fashion icon DJ Cassidy.

A day later she spoke to 1,880 in Winterville, North Carolina.

Clinton has also co-opted enormous concert events featuring Adele and Jennifer Lopez, making brief appearances at voter-magnets that her campaign didn't organize.

Hillary Clinton held a rally in Cleveland where both Beyonce and Jay Z performed and endorsed her for president (above)

As both Hillary Clinton (above with Jay Z and Beyonce) and Donald Trump make their final pitches to the American people, recent polls show a tightening race in crucial swing states.

Trump does occasionally play to a small room. Friday morning in Atkinson, New Hampshire, the local fire marshal ordered the doors of a country club auditorium shut after about 900 people had entered. Another 400 listened outside as columns of loudspeakers blasted Trump's speech.

The Republican nominee complained in Hershey about a double-standard from media outlets that inflate the impact of Clinton's smaller crowds while never showing the sea of humanity that roared for him Friday night.

'I love you people. But they won't show [you],' he said, pointing to TV cameras ads 11,000 fans booed the press.

Friday's Beyoncé and Jay Z (pictured above with Clinton) event drew 13,610, which is the full capacity of Cleveland State University's Wolstein Center

'Watch: You go home, you won't see the crowds. They won't talk about them.'

Instead, he predicted, 'you're gonna see Hillary. She'll have like 3 or 4 hundred people. What a joke. What dishonesty.'

Conway's brief remarks also sent catcalls cascading toward reporters as the crowd erupted in a chant of 'CNN sucks! CNN sucks!'