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Trump Cancels Second Tulsa Speech Due To Low Turnout, Blames Protesters And The Media Business
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TOPLINE The Trump campaign announced Saturday evening that they were cancelling a planned second speech at the president’s Tulsa rally due to low turnout, blaming the turnout on protesters and the media.
Donald Trump Holds Campaign Rally In Tulsa
KEY FACTS
The campaign anticipated a crowd too large for Tulsa’s BOK Center, a stadium with a capacity of 19,200, claiming to have received over a million ticket requests.
“There was so much response, over a million ticket requests, that we decided that the BOK Center was just not big enough,” Trump campaign Communications Director Tim Murtaugh said on Friday, announcing the president would “speak in both locations.”
But as the crowd filed in Saturday evening, it looked as though there wouldn’t be enough people to fill the stadium, let alone necessitate a second speech.
In a statement, Murtaugh announced the campaign was canceling the speech, insisting that the president’s supporters were energized and blaming the low turnout on protesters and the media.
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“President Trump is rallying in Tulsa with thousands of energetic supporters,” Murtaugh said, accusing protesters of interfering with supporters and blocking access to the metal detectors, which he claims prevented people from entering.
“Radical protestors, coupled with a relentless onslaught from the media, attempted to frighten off the President’s supporters. We are proud of the thousands who stuck it out,” he added, without naming specific incidents.
KEY BACKGROUND
The rally has been marred by controversy since it was first announced, both for the fact that it was originally planned on Juneteenth, a holiday of great significance to African Americans, and due to the dire public health implications of a large indoor rally during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Public health experts, including some from the Trump administration, had warned against the rally. Several events on Saturday, including six Trump staffers working on the rally testing positive for coronavirus and Tulsa County reporting its highest number of cases ever, seemed to confirm those fears.
KEY QUOTE
“As others are reporting, looks like attendance here in Tulsa is well below campaign’s expectations,” New York Times reporter Astead Herndon noted.
CHIEF CRITIC
Los Angeles Times White House Correspondent Chris Megerian pushed back on the campaign’s claim that protesters blocked access to the metal detectors. “Cops on site tell [LA Times Reporter Molly Hennessy-Fiske] that the entrance was closed only briefly and no one was turned away,” he tweeted.
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Opinion;
Trump is like a little kid when he does not get what he wants he wants to pick up his toys and go home. The sad thing Rex Tillerson was the grownup in the room that saw Trump for what he was incompetent. John Bolton is now the idiot loser telling the truth about his former boss. The Truth Paul Ryan was President for the first 2 years and he got everything he wanted to be done and left office. He left a child in the white house. The economy was his claim to fame and he destroyed it. He did what he had to do undo everything Obama did he was great at that. The sad thing is he has no vision for the country at all. He cost American lives with his slow response to COVID 19 and 100,000 plus lives and He told police to be rough when putting people in the car don’t protect them. His followers are waiting for civil war 2 they want their slaves back and it so sad, We need real leadership not a baby in office Help!!!