US leader has downplayed the risk that the rally might trigger a Covid-19 outbreak. FMTNews Coronavirus
People wait for President Donald Trump to appear before a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma on Saturday.
The president has downplayed the risk that the evening rally – with thousands of shouting, cheering attendees – might trigger a coronavirus outbreak. The stakes Saturday could not be higher – both for the health of the 19,000 people spending hours at the arena and Trump’s political fortunes five months before an election in which he trails in the polls.
“We all have a common purpose and a common goal here,” he said. “It’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”Oklahoma is so overwhelmingly Republican that Trump’s job isn’t so much to win over locals as to revive a campaign rocked by his handling of the pandemic and weeks of racial tensions.
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