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irisblue

(32,967 posts)
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 01:33 PM Jul 2020

Trump cancelled the NH event

(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."


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RockRaven

(14,958 posts)
3. A forerunner of their eventual convention maneuver.
Fri Jul 10, 2020, 01:42 PM
Jul 2020

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

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