Attendees of the Tulsa rally were made to sign a waiver agreeing not to sue Trump 2020 if they should contract covid-19
DONALD TRUMP has held more rallies than any other recent president. Yet they still manage to surprise. The event in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on June 20th was no different. The president rambled like a man who didn’t want it to ever end. For a flavour, try his anecdote about inspecting the most recent class graduating from the army’s academy at West Point a week before.
Mr Trump went on like this for an hour and 45 minutes. While listening it was easy to forget that outside Tulsa’s BOK Centre, America is going through a bout of introspection about racism, the unemployment rate exceeds 13% and more than 100,000 people are dead from covid-19. And the disease is shifting from blue-voting to red-voting America: Oklahoma is one of 14 states that reported their highest infection rates yet between June 16th and June 20th.
This tonic for the president may come at a heavy cost . Some residents of Tulsa and local businesses tried to have social-distancing protocols enforced, which would in effect have scuppered the rally. Oklahoma’s state supreme court rejected an appeal. Yet the Trump campaign still made attendees sign a waiver, agreeing not to sue Trump 2020 should they subsequently contract covid-19. Part of the appeal of Trump rallies is that they are transgressive.
Mr Biden, as passages like this suggest, makes a much harder target for Mr Trump than Hillary Clinton. The former vice-president cannot be successfully caricatured as crooked or extreme, so Mr Trump has to settle for attacking his party instead. And fantasising aloud about a stockmarket surge in the weeks leading up to November that would come to his rescue:
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