After days of controversy over Trump's choice to hold his first rally since the coronavirus lockdowns in Tulsa, Oklahoma, it was changed to July 20.
over Donald Trump's choice to hold his first rally since the coronavirus lockdowns in Tulsa, Oklahoma – the site of one of the worst massacres of African Americans in the country's history – on Juneteenth, the president announced he would change the date of the event.
"Think about it as a celebration. My rally is a celebration. In the history of politics, I think I can say there's never been any group or any person that's had rallies like I do," Trump said in the interview."I go and I just say, 'Give me the biggest stadium and we fill it up every time.'" When asked about why the campaign decided to hold the rally in Tulsa and on Juneteenth, senior Trump campaign adviser Katrina Pierson said in a statement Thursday, “as the party of Lincoln, Republicans are proud of the history of Juneteenth."
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