Social media users are registering for tickets to attend President Donald Trump’s New Hampshire rally, but many say they have no plans of actually going, The Boston Globe reports.
It is the second time that internet trolls are using social media to urge people to create fake registrations for a Trump rally. Teenage TikTok users and Korean pop music fans registered for thousands of tickets to Trump’s Tulsa rally, which led the campaign to create space for an overflow crowd that never showed up.
Northeastern University student Aisha Khan told the newspaper she signed up for tickets for the next rally and she doesn’t plan on attending.
“The goal is to make sure Trump’s turnout is low and that he is not given a bigger platform during his rallies,” she told the newspaper.
She said she got the idea to sign up for the tickets to sabotage the crowd's attendance after she saw other people doing it on the app TikTok.
Former New York lawmaker Jon Cooper, a Democrat, asked his 500,000 Twitter followers to register for tickets. His post received 34,000 likes and 17,000 retweets as of Tuesday.
"I just ordered two tickets for Trump’s MAGA rally on July 11 in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Too bad I won’t be attending! It took me just 30 seconds to register. It would be a real shame if thousands of other people who didn't intend to show signed up for tickets," he tweeted, adding a wink-face emoji and a link to register for tickets.
“The impetus was the teens on TikTok and K-Pop fans that struck a blow for social activism when they joined forces several weeks ago to tank Trump’s first campaign rally in Tulsa,” Cooper told the Globe. “I think it will be really interesting to see if that feat can be repeated in New Hampshire.”
He said he thinks efforts by the anti-Trump activists known as the “resistance” have made it “increasingly difficult to hold a successful rally going forward.”
He noted that the influx of fake registrations could hamper the Trump campaign’s effort to build up an accurate database of supporters.
The Portsmouth, N.H. rally is scheduled to take place at an outdoor venue and attendees will be “strongly encouraged” to wear face masks, the Trump campaign said in a news release.
Attendees also will have to sign a waiver that prevents them for holding the campaign responsible if they get sick with COVID-19 at the event.
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