President Donald Trump on Monday claimed that “one million people” have tried to get tickets to his campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, set to take place this weekend despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.
Trump had originally scheduled the rally, his first since March, for this Friday, but it was rescheduled after critics noted that it would be in poor taste to hold a campaign rally at the location of one of the worst race massacres in American history, the 1921 attack on Tulsa’s “Black Wall Street,” on Juneteenth, the holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the United States.
The rally will now take place on Saturday, and the campaign will hand out bottled water to anyone attending who has to wait in line outside the venue in heat expected to reach up to 95 degrees Fahrenheit.
Despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Republican Party officials expressed little concern of the event causing another outbreak, with Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel telling Fox News that “people with underlying condition — they’re not going to go to a rally like this.”
The Trump campaign’s deputy communications director, Erin Perrine, told Reuters in an email that “the campaign takes the health and safety of rally-goers seriously and is taking precautions to make the rally safe.”
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