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WASHINGTON (AP) Regrouping after a humbling weekend rally, President Donald Trump faces another test of his ability to draw a crowd during a pandemic Tuesday as he visits Arizona and tries to remind voters of one of his key 2016 campaign promises.
Trumps weekend rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, had been meant to be a sign of the nations reopening and a show of political force but instead generated thousands of empty seats and swirling questions about the presidents campaign leadership and his case for another four years in office. The low turnout has sharpened the focus on Trumps visit to Arizona, which doubles as both a 2020 battleground state and a surging coronavirus hotspot.
First, the president will travel to Yuma to mark the construction of more than 200 miles of wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, an issue that he built his campaign on four years ago. Later, hell address a group of young Republicans at a Phoenix megachurch, where event organizers have pledged thousands will attend.
Throughout the trip, the COVID-19 pandemic will shadow Trump. The Democratic mayor of Phoenix made clear that she does not believe the speech can be safely held in her city and urged the president to wear a face mask.
https://apnews.com/74aad2648e2a299f622ba767c1b095c1
Trumps weekend rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, had been meant to be a sign of the nations reopening and a show of political force but instead generated thousands of empty seats and swirling questions about the presidents campaign leadership and his case for another four years in office. The low turnout has sharpened the focus on Trumps visit to Arizona, which doubles as both a 2020 battleground state and a surging coronavirus hotspot.
First, the president will travel to Yuma to mark the construction of more than 200 miles of wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, an issue that he built his campaign on four years ago. Later, hell address a group of young Republicans at a Phoenix megachurch, where event organizers have pledged thousands will attend.
Throughout the trip, the COVID-19 pandemic will shadow Trump. The Democratic mayor of Phoenix made clear that she does not believe the speech can be safely held in her city and urged the president to wear a face mask.
https://apnews.com/74aad2648e2a299f622ba767c1b095c1
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After Tulsa, Trump heads to virus hotspot Arizona and border (Original Post)
demmiblue
Jun 2020
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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,986 posts)1. The Trump virus
yellowdogintexas
(22,252 posts)2. maybe they will have a haboob and AF1 will not be able to land
Those things are insane
https://earthsky.org/earth/what-are-haboobs-amazing-pics-and-videos
My daughter got caught in one the first summer she was in Phoenix.
bdamomma
(63,849 posts)3. I guess the Lincoln project
will have another ad come out.