Duluth airport refused to host Pence event after Trump's rule-breaking rally there
DULUTH – Airport officials here told Vice President Mike Pence he could not host a campaign event on their premises in late October after President Donald Trump bucked state health guidelines while holding a rally there weeks earlier. In an Oct. 22 e-mail to the Duluth Airport Authority’s seven-person board of directors, the airport’s executive director said he’d learned that Pence planned to host a rally in Duluth on Oct. 26.
Pence instead held a rally at Hibbing’s airport, where about 650 gathered to hear the vice president speak eight days before Election Day despite Minnesota’s pandemic-fueled 250-person cap on events. Trump tested positive for COVID-19 two days after hosting a Sept. 30 rally at the Duluth airport, which officials estimated 2,500 to 3,000 people attended. The campaign had previously signed a contract agreeing to follow the state’s capacity rules implemented by Gov. Tim Walz in attempt to slow the spread of the virus.
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The state traced four COVID-19 cases to Trump’s rally in Duluth and 16 cases to a Sept. 18 event in Bemidji, where two people were later hospitalized with the virus. Another four cases were traced to counter protests. Trump held another rally Oct. 30 in Rochester, where the president complied with the state’s rules but complained about Walz and other state Democrats limiting his crowd.
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