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(and I was sure he would not. I was wrong)
Source--https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/us/politics/trump-nh-rally-postponed.html
snip--"Amid ongoing concerns about President Trump attracting only small crowds at his re-election events, officials said Friday that his campaign was postponing a planned rally for the following evening in Portsmouth, N.H., citing safety concerns associated with an incoming tropical storm.
The rally was set for an outdoor space in an airport hangar, in the hopes that anxious supporters would be less frightened to attend an open-air gathering in the middle of a pandemic than they were in Tulsa, Okla., last month, when just 6,200 people showed up to fill a 19,000-seat indoor arena where Mr. Trump spoke.
Current weather forecasts for Portsmouth indicate that the rain is supposed to stop there around noon on Saturday; the rally was scheduled for 8 p.m.
The postponement also came as a spate of new polls show that Americans are being increasingly cautious about the coronavirus, as cases across the country, particularly in the south and west, have surged."
More at source
empedocles
(15,751 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)RockRaven
(14,958 posts)Step 1: schedule an outdoor speech in FL in August.
Step 2: cancel speech at the last minute citing weather
Step 3: claim the crowd would have been totally tremendous, histodical, and y-uge
Miguelito Loveless
(4,460 posts)but poorly attended venues threaten Trump's delusions.
Solomon
(12,310 posts)42bambi
(1,753 posts)JenniferJuniper
(4,510 posts)handmade34
(22,756 posts)irisblue
(32,967 posts)kentuck
(111,078 posts)Did not want to be embarrassed again.