Donald trump for the first time since the start of the pandemic COVID-19 took part in a mass event, speaking Saturday night to his supporters in Tulsa (Oklahoma). The meeting with voters was not as crowded as expected by its organizers.
“We are starting a campaign!” – cried the tramp at the stadium BOK Center, hit with criticism for its main rival, “Sleepy Joe” (Democrat Joseph Biden), leftists and fake-news.
His followers the President called “fighters” and the protesters “bad people”: “out There, meeting very bad people. They did very bad things.”
on the eve of his meeting with supporters of the U.S. President warned on Twitter of his opponents: “Protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or villains that are going to come to Oklahoma, please understand that you’ll be there is not, as it was in new York, Seattle or Minneapolis. This is a completely different scenario.”
However, in Tulsa gathered several groups of anarchists and “Antifa”, but to the stadium, which hosted the meeting of the President and his supporters, the protesters did not let.
“Republicans are the party of FREEDOM, EQUALITY and JUSTICE for ALL, – said trump. – We are the party of Abraham Lincoln and the party of LAW AND ORDER!”
the mention in the context of pre-election statements of fighter for the elimination of slavery Lincoln, supposed to please black voters.
at First, trump actually wanted to be marking the resumption of pre-election rallies meeting with supporters in Tulsa June 19, the day celebrates the end of slavery in the United States. However, in the end it was decided to postpone the event a day later. In addition, opponents trump me remind you that Tulsa has been one of the biggest cases of racial violence in the country’s history, when on may 30 and June 1, 1921, white racists attacked black neighborhoods. During those riots killed 36 people.
About a week before the event in Tulsa trump said that he is one of the best in the history of the United States the President for black Americans: “I did more for the black community than any other President, is not speaking about Abraham Lincoln”.
However, in Tulsa Donald trump could not refrain from statements that his critics immediately deemed “racist”.
At the meeting trump, for example, when talking about nationwide protests, directed at the protection of the police, used the Spanish word “hombre” (man, people) in the description of a fictional criminal who breaks into the house at night alone a young woman. The guardians of political correctness seen in the word “hombre” racist flavor and reminded that the last trump was called Mexican immigrants “rapists”.
Also, take��unit to supporters, the President of the United States, describing the pandemic virus called “kung flu” (that is, “kung flu”). Hinting thus at the origin of the Chinese COVID-19. Human rights groups immediately saw in this language, racist subtext and expressed concern that this and other statements of the President, not just saying “Chinese” or “Hanscom virus”, can provoke racism and violence against Asian Americans.
All pandemic could not impose a mark on the election event.
in mid-March, the electoral headquarters of the candidates for the White house abandoned the public gatherings in favor of an online format.
the idea to hold a mass meeting in a while, as in America, there are hundreds of thousands of people infected COVID-19, sparked a wave of criticism of trump, who says that his supporters are eager to see their President in real time.
Donald trump claims that his administration curbed the epidemic (“I did a phenomenal job, I saved hundreds of thousands of lives!”), and the number of tests for coronavirus, in his opinion, it is necessary to reduce. According to trump, it increased the number of tests became the reason of growth of diseases to the South and West of the country.
Concerns about the possibility of a new outbreak after a crowded gathering in Tulsa could hardly seem exaggerated. When you register to participate in the meeting with the President, his supporters had to agree that the organizers of this event are not responsible for the possible contamination of their coronavirus and its implications. At the entrance participants of pre-election action the temperature was measured, were given masks and sanitizer. However, many of those masks are not worn. Played without a mask, and the trump.
But for precautionary measures was justified. Six members trunovskogo electoral staff involved in the preparation of the meeting in Tulsa was discovered coronavirus. They have been quarantined.
in Addition, according to the Ministry of health of the United States, now in the state of Oklahoma was the growth of cases of infection with coronavirus. In Tulsa last Friday, it was 352 new cases of the disease.
Perhaps it is the fear of the coronavirus have played a role in that meeting with trump to accommodate 19 thousand people the arena it’s less people than expected to the organizers of the event. The place was filled only two-thirds, although at first it seemed that everyone wanted to listen to the President no end.
Representatives trunovskogo staff said that the Internet was filed nearly a million requests for tickets – but in reality everything is much more modest. It has been suggested that most of the fake claims have been made of bored teenagerAMI (and for some reason, even K-Pop fans, who decided to play a trump). So I had from the schedule of stay of the President in Tulsa expunged his statement to supporters, which failed (as expected) to get to the stadium.
Meanwhile, the polls show a worrying trend for trump: if elections were held now, the candidate of the Democratic party Joe Biden would win the current head of the White house.
According to a poll by Reuters-Ipsos, 48% of respondents said that they would vote for Biden and 35% for trump. The survey shows that 40% of respondents positively assess how trump copes with an outbreak of the coronavirus, but 55% gave him a negative rating. Overall, the survey gives Trump a 38% approval rating. But while respondents believe that it will be better for the economy (43%) than Biden (38%).
According to the survey of CNBC-Change Research, Joe Biden ahead of the President in the six so-called swing States that will likely decide the outcome of the November election (in Arizona, Florida, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin). But the leadership of Biden over trump in these States is relatively small – 48-45%.
