An hour before its start, the meeting had already an air of fiasco. The higher sections nearly empty, a crowd is very sparse around the stage… Donald Trump promised a “night of madness” for its first meeting of the campaign after three months of interruption. A celebration of triumph to celebrate the reopening of the country – the “great comeback” of America – but also the relaunch of his re-election campaign buffeted by the pandemic, the economic crisis and the huge uprising against racism. Since the beginning of the week, the president repeated that a million people had tried to get a ticket and that we would walk over in the arena of Tulsa in Oklahoma, which has 19 000 seats.
His teams had even planned outside a podium for the overflow of supporters. Las ! The gathering outside the arena has been cancelled, due to lack of participants. As for the BOK Center, he was only half-filled…
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Is this the fear of the contagion that has forced the supporters to stay with them ? A spokesman for the team Trump has rejected the fault on the media, which have “scared” Americans and the “protesters extremists” who have blocked the access. In fact, the anti-Trump were very few in number, perhaps because the black leaders in Tulsa had called on the population to stay at home and that a very strong police presence surrounded the BOK Center. If we believe the users of TikTok, it seems that hundreds of teenagers to be organised via the website for booking multiple tickets online, without having the slightest intention to attend the meeting, which may have prevented the true followers of obtain.
The top of the arena in Tulsa remained empty. An image that has the ennerver Donald Trump. © NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP
These rows of bleachers blue totally empty are very bad for Donald Trump if sensitive to decorum and to the image cathode. And there are some very unpleasant questions about its political power and its chances of winning a second term in office while the polls give a loss of speed.
Tulsa, a city symbol
One would not like to be in the place of Brad Parscale, director of the campaign that will undoubtedly make a soap. Because everything went wrong from the beginning. He has chosen for the first mass meeting of the Oklahoma, State that the president had gained the upper-hand in 2016. But the choice was far from wise. Tulsa, in 1921, was the scene of a bloody slaughter during which a crowd of white has killed nearly 300 Blacks. A painful memory in full case George Floyd… In addition, teams of campaign had initially scheduled the meeting on 19 June without knowing that it is the day of the commemoration of the end of slavery in the United States. Before the outcry, they pushed it to the next day.
most Importantly, Oklahoma, like many States, conservatives have déconfiné very quickly, experiencing an upsurge in the number of cases of coronavirus. The public health officials of the city have called for the postponement of the meeting, fearing a contagion dangerous. Despite the calls of the different personalities of the city, the mayor has refused to cancel the meeting and Donald Trump has ignored the criticism. The president has increased the controversy by announcing that wearing a mask would be optional and actually few of them were his supporters who wore. Yesterday, we learned that six members of the campaign team and two men of his bodyguard had been tested positive.
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In his speech of nearly two hours, the president has resumed its popular themes pre-Covid. It is autocongratulé on his appointments to the massive of judges, his economic record, “the largest tax cut” in the history of the country, his decision to assassinate Qassem Soleimani, the leader of iranian military…
He touted the “job phenomenal” that he had done on the pandemic, not to mention the approximately 120 000 dead. He justified the increase cases current by the increase in the number of screening tests. “So, I told my teams, “slow down the tests” ! ” he launched at the forum. The president “was joking, of course,” said a spokesman for the White House after the meeting… It should be noted especially that there was no mention of the death of George Floyd nor spoke of possible reforms in the area of police violence or racial justice.
On the other hand, it has long attacked the “left-wing extremists” that he was wrongly accused of the rampage. They ” vandalizing our History, damaged our monuments, our beautiful monuments, déboulonnent our statues and… persecute anyone who does not comply to their requests to obtain the absolute control “. It took, of course, to Joe Biden a ” puppet of the left extremist “. If he is elected, he promised, it’s going to take you to your retirement, increase your taxes to give health insurance to undocumented immigrants, and it will be anarchy in the street… In a word, the message was clear : “Me or the chaos. “
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Donald Trump had a lot on the meeting of election to divert attention from the multiple crises of the recent past. Just this week, he has lost the legal battle to prevent the publication of the book of John Bolton, his former national Security adviser, which is chock-full of revelations shocking. There has been a series of resignations of senior officials at the State department, the Pentagon, and the Justice system. The supreme Court has taken two decisions which go against its policy. The decision to dismiss the prosecutor of Manhattan in charge of several records on close relatives of the president has aroused a big scandal. And humiliation total, for the first time in may, Joe Biden has raised more funds than Donald Trump. These are not the images of the tvs on the stands empty, that will cheer him up…
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