'Logistical Nightmare': PA Trump Supporters Left Stranded Waiting for Buses After President's Rally
Source: Newsweek
President Donald Trump's supporters waited roughly two hours for shuttle buses to transport them back to their cars on Saturday night, following an evening campaign rally that took place at an airport in Butler, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh.
The rally marked Trump's penultimate campaign outing in Pennsylvania on Saturdaythe third of four engagements, as the president pushes for a win in what is considered one of this election season's most important battleground statesand second campaign event to see significant transportation issues over the past week.
Ryan Nobles, a Washington correspondent at CNN who covered the Butler rally, called its aftermath a "massive logistical nightmare," as thousands of attendees lingered at the outdoor site in 41-degree weather. The circumstances were reminiscent of those that played out following Trump's reelection event in Omaha, Nebraska, last Tuesday, when hundreds of attendees braced freezing temperatures while waiting for shuttles to take them to distant parking lots where they'd left their vehicles.
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Speaking to Anderson Cooper during the broadcast anchor's evening news program, Nobles said many supporters made the trek back to their vehicles on foot after organized transportation failed to arrive. The reporter and fellow CNN crew members were among those who decided to walk, although their designated parking area was closer to the airport than others. Through the windshield of his car, Nobles photographed a group of individuals walking in the road several miles away from where the rally took place.
Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/logistical-nightmare-pa-trump-supporters-left-stranded-waiting-buses-after-presidents-rally-1543853
Oops, Trump did it again and left his supporters stuck.
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Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)Miguelito Loveless
(4,438 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Several reports the campaign credit cards were declined, no money.
That would explain the campaign/trump silence about the abandon issues.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)torius
(1,652 posts)DallasNE
(7,392 posts)In Omaha the GOP blamed it on road construction. Well, that same road construction was there when the buses had no problem getting people to the rally on time so you can eliminate that lie. Like Butler, the buses simply didn't show up to take people back to their cars so people walked back. Another similarity, the road between the parking lot and airport do not have sidewalks, forcing people to walk in a traffic lane. Very dangerous.
I mean, if the Trump people can't run campaign event smoothly how can you expect them to run a country smoothly? You can't.
mpcamb
(2,855 posts)SayItLoud
(1,696 posts)Fuck em.
SunSeeker
(51,377 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,246 posts)cultists there. On my way out to shop, I saw a handmade sign saying "Trump rally" with an arrow. I knew Trump wasn't coming here and wondered what it was about. Now I think it was a gathering spot for locals who wanted to see Trump in Butler. Guessing they rode up in a bus and probably had to wait for it since it's a long walk from here to Butler.
pstokely
(10,511 posts)who scream to others to get a job
DeminPennswoods
(15,246 posts)It seems like the crowd is an indicator of local support when in reality it contains a fair number of people who just go to nearby rallies all the time.
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)robbob
(3,514 posts)and then driving them from said rally back to their cars an hour or two later a logistical nightmare then you are probably in over your head. Whats thats saying about incompetent to organize a 2 car funeral procession?
NoRoadUntravelled
(2,626 posts)They will all be left out in the cold dark night eventually because tRump cares nothing for them. The way he's handled the pandemic proves he doesn't care who dies as long as he gets elected.
Rebl2
(13,311 posts)see a trend. He has left the Democrats stranded, you might say, the last four years and now he he is even doing it to his supporters.
kb3ojg
(15 posts)I give exactly *zero* shits about Trump supporters.
Why?
Same reason I wouldn't get choked up over hearing about an incident at a KKK rally where Klansmen were injured/killed.
These "people" deserve anything that happens to them. The more"intelligent" ones are at least proto-fascist, and the others are literal "useful idiots".
Fuck 'em.
BTW: Not "trolling", just to head off that potential misunderstanding.
They support a regime which is operating concentration camps - including one specifically for children.
Anyone who can still stomach anything about Trump this late in the game is beneath contempt, as far as I am concerned.
The Magistrate
(95,237 posts)Welcome to the forum.
riversedge
(69,727 posts)elderly.
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)Then maybe the busses taking them to and from worshipping their mango lord would come and go as planned.
He shits all over them, and they just ask for another pile. What losers.
Cozmo
(1,402 posts)They live to be tortured
Harker
(13,880 posts)never reached Butler County voters.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/30/politics/pennsylvania-butler-county-ballots/index.html
Hekate
(90,202 posts)BarbD
(1,191 posts)So why didn't they simply park the buses at the event? Did they only have a one-way ticket?
SergeStorms
(18,903 posts)that Trump doesn't give 1% of a shit about them. It's all for his benefit, to massage his rancid ego. He honestly doesn't care if they live or die, as is evidenced by tightly packing them together when there's a killer virus everywhere, just waiting for them. He then throws them away, like a used condom, when he's finished fucking them over and squeezing as much adoration from their dim minds as possible.
Tools. They're simple tools, not to mention extraordinary fools.