WASHINGTON, June 16 — President Donald Trump yesterday rejected pleas from Tulsa, Oklahoma, not to risk aggravating coronavirus risks by holding a rally there, announcing he wants to triple the crowd to 60,000 people. “We have a 22,000 seat arena, but I think we’re also going to take the...
Tuesday, 16 Jun 2020 07:08 AM MYT
“We have a 22,000 seat arena, but I think we’re also going to take the convention hall next door and that’s going to hold 40,000,” he told reporters at the White House. In a tweet yesterday, Trump claimed that applications to attend the rally in the city, which has a population of less than half a million, were flooding in.
Trump said Oklahoma had done “really fantastic work” on fighting Covid-19. He said he’d predicted there would be “hot spots” and “we’ll take care of the hot spots.” However, the coronavirus pandemic forced Trump to shelve his rally schedule, putting a serious dent in his reelection strategy.An initial plan to reopen the rallies in Tulsa this Friday, June 19, was criticised because this would coincide with the annual “Juneteenth” commemorations for the end of slavery in the United States.
On Sunday, Tulsa’s health department director Bruce Dart also called for a delay to the Saturday event, citing the coronavirus risk.
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