Trump campaign vows rallies will return
President Donald Trump's re-election campaign says it's still planning to hold rallies leading up to November’s election, despite public health experts warning large gatherings should be put on hold until as late as next year. Since freezing campaign rallies in March amid the growing pandemic, the Trump campaign has repeatedly pledged that the centerpiece events of the president’s re-election effort will return.
"This coronavirus will pass and the president is looking forward to getting back out on the campaign trail and holding rallies," Trump campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh told ABC News. "We will get back to those rallies. Never fear, the president is certain that we’re going to be back out there speaking directly to the American people,” Murtaugh said.
Behind closed doors, Trump campaign officials have discussed holding rallies in certain states that are deemed low risk and even ways to implement social distancing precautions at future rallies, sources tell ABC News. It's not immediately clear what would characterize a state as "low risk," or when exactly rallies are planned to return.
The Republican National Committee reiterated on Wednesday that they’re still planning to hold their August convention at the Spectrum Center in Charlotte which would bring thousands of people to the are for the four-day event to nominate the president. Convention CEO Marcia Lee Kelly said Wednesday that while “public safety is paramount,” and delegates may have to wear masks and social distance in the arena, they’re still moving forward with the convention.
"Four months from now is like a world, a universe, away," she said. "We are moving full steam ahead to … a historic convention."
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