The meeting Trump on Saturday has been marked by images of empty seats. The fault according to some users artificially inflated ticket requests.
rows of empty seats, far short of the million participants expected. Donald Trump was able to see, on Saturday, the low attendance at its meeting is organized in a full pandemic. The billionaire republican had assured last week that “nearly a million” people had requested tickets for this appointment in Tulsa, in Oklahoma, a State conservative that he had won with an overwhelming majority in 2016.
But the meeting was leaded by the images of rows of empty seats, the news that six members of his team were to be tested positive Covid-19 and a speech that has been criticized for not having addressed in depth the health crisis, economic and the historical movement of anger against the racism situation in the United States.
The fire department of Tulsa have counted 6200 spectators during his speech, according to the american media. But officials in the campaign team of Donald Trump said that there had been at least 12 000 spectators and has rejected the blame on the protesters and the media.
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Handled by teenagers on the TikTok?
The real reason could be more hard to swallow for the republican candidate. Teenagers have in fact been able to partly cause the lack of attendance. Some proclaimed as well on the social network TikTok have ordered many tickets with the firm intention not to go there. Some of these statements came from a group of fans of K-pop (a style of Pop Korean origin) very followed on this network, and others from mere users of the network.
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“In reality, teenagers on the network TikTok are played to you by flooding the campaign to Trump of false bookings of tickets for you to believe that a million people wanted to see your white supremacist and force you to book a stadium for the COVID” has mocked the media coverage of congresswoman democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
in this social network, popular with teens, calls to order tickets succeeded throughout the week, including this video of a young girl who is laughing : “Gee, I forgot that I have to store each piece of my house, so that I have booked and confirmed tickets for the meeting of Trump. This unfortunately will make two empty seats”…
A theory that was strongly rejected by the director of the campaign of Donald Trump Sunday, stressing that its teams had checked to always have the phone numbers and that the entries were assigned anyway in order of arrival. “There were several factors at play, such as worries about the protesters who had come”, explained Sunday a counsellor influential to the team of Donald Trump, Mercedes Schlapp. “There were protesters who have blocked” the entrance of the participants, she also stated on Fox News, adding that families had can be not dared to come with their children due to concerns related to the protesters”. The journalists on site have not reported of blockages in the major inputs. An imposing police and military had been deployed in the perimeter.
Biden takes off in the polls
If Donald Trump, 74 years of age, has demonstrated once again his energy, striding onstage for nearly two hours, even the media favorite of conservatives stressed Sunday that loser. Donald Trump is “furious”, reported NBC, and the New York Times, citing anonymous sources. The president, who loves to talk about the crowds who come to see, had explained that if the multi-purpose hall, which can accommodate about 20,000 people, was not enough, a conference centre nearby could receive approximately 40 000 people.
the First large rally was held in a room that is closed during the pandemic Covid-19, which was close to 120, 000 deaths in the United States, the meeting of Donald Trump had been heavily criticized, experts fearing that it may worsen the contagion at a time when Oklahoma is experiencing a strong surge in the number of cases detected.
He and his team laugh at for weeks, and the campaign to mute her rival, democrat Joe Biden, who remained locked in his home for weeks because of the containment and complies strictly with the safety instructions in the speeches and round tables which he organized since the déconfinement. The former vice-president of Barack Obama has not organized a meeting at the beginning of march, when the pandemic is coming to put a sudden stop to the election campaign american.
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This did not prevent it to take off in the polls in recent weeks by Donald Trump. “I’d like to see a meeting of Biden. Scanty, because there is no comparison”, has launched Mercedes Schlapp, noting that the one Donald Trump had been&comte; followed by 5.3 million people online.
