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Trump’s Tulsa Rally Fizzles as Seats Go Empty
NYT ^ | June 21, 2020 | Michael D. Shear, Maggie Haberman and Astead W. Herndon

Posted on 06/21/2020 4:24:06 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?

TULSA, Okla. — President Trump’s attempt to revive his re-election campaign sputtered badly on Saturday night as he traveled to Tulsa for his first mass rally in months and found a far smaller crowd than his aides had promised him, then delivered a disjointed speech that did not address the multiple crises facing the nation or scandals battering him in Washington.

The weakness of Mr. Trump’s drawing power and political skills, in a state that voted for him overwhelmingly and in a format that he favors, raised new questions about his electoral prospects for a second term at a time when his poll numbers were already falling. And rather than speak to the wide cross-section of Americans who say they are concerned about police violence and systemic racism, he continued to use racist language, describing the coronavirus as “Kung Flu.”

the 19,000-seat BOK Center was at least one-third empty during the rally.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: 2020election; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; election2020; mediawingofthednc; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkslimes; newyorktimes; oklahoma; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; rally; smearmachine; trump; tulsa
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To: vg0va3
Not better than the rally we attended in person, but we couldn't make it to Tulsa. 😄
61 posted on 06/21/2020 5:11:32 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: mewzilla

comment #2: And it looks like the earlier 1.5 million watching Trump on YT was way too low and not updated via a totality from Bloomberg Quicktake, Fox, Fox Business and many others on YT at the end of the rally. And Trump blew it out on FB.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3857737/posts


62 posted on 06/21/2020 5:12:54 AM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: MAGAthon

Bwah hah hah hah hah!


63 posted on 06/21/2020 5:14:48 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: chiller
I think sometimes was have landed in Bizarro World. Radical protesters come and try to intimidate citizens from going to a political rally, requiring the police and National Guard to protect the rally. Thousands throng into the site, patiently going through a gauntlet to get it. The rally is raucous and only a few seats up in the nose bleed section are empty (already noted how many could not get in). Then, the supporters have to brave a gauntlet again to get out. And the New York Slime says the rally was a fizzle! Right on time, liberal news sources are publishing silly pro-Biden articles about how the Trump campaign is in trouble! It's all Bizarro World stuff!
64 posted on 06/21/2020 5:15:00 AM PDT by gbscott
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To: Salamander

Didn’t know about the animal videos, but i certainly knew about the Chinese connection.


65 posted on 06/21/2020 5:16:17 AM PDT by sauropod (Quarantine is when you restrict sick people, tyranny is when you restrict healthy people.)
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To: HighSierra5

“””Considering all of the obstacles to this rally,there were enough people there to send a message.”””


You are so correct.

And I understand that something like 4 million people watched the rally via FOX and the several other online feeds.


66 posted on 06/21/2020 5:16:56 AM PDT by Presbyterian Reporter
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To: gbscott

Yeah, got the post wrong at the beginning! Gotta check it more thoroughly! It is we have landed, not was have landed!


67 posted on 06/21/2020 5:17:05 AM PDT by gbscott
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To: MAGAthon

You know, that got me to thinking...

Watching with fellow deplorables is much more fun.

For folks who can’t make it the rally venue, maybe the Trump cold book smaller venues nationwide, like auditoriums, smaller stadiums, where deplorables could get together to watch on a YUGE screen.

I wouldn’t mind paying for a ticket for something like that. I think it would be great!


68 posted on 06/21/2020 5:18:56 AM PDT by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds.)
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To: Ann Archy

It took THREE ADULTS to write this!!!

...
Likely the same three who attended Biden’s rally.


69 posted on 06/21/2020 5:18:57 AM PDT by CincyRichieRich (Be still, and know that I am God...Psalm 46:10)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I sometimes wonder about the media at time when they don’t realize a false narrative can work against them as well.

The 2016 election should have been a wake up call to the left. They kept reporting everything positive about Hillary, and everything negative about Trump.

Results, some of Hillary supporters did not bother to vote since they were assured of her victory, and all of Trump’s supported showed up at the polls.

Those that support President Trump understands the difficulties the Campaign had filling seats. The biggest one being Covid 19 and the measured taken before the event. Next was security and then the protestors.

Even if the stadium was not filled, President Trump reached millions with his message. So suck it up NYT your hit piece is what fizzed.


70 posted on 06/21/2020 5:21:36 AM PDT by CIB-173RDABN (I am not an expert in anything, and my opinion is just that, an opinion. I may be wrong.)
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To: CincyRichieRich

some have been posting on FR 6,000+ figure for attendance. Tulsa World estimates 10,000:

20 Jun: Tulsa World: Tulsa Trump rally coverage: First protester arrested in Tulsa tells her story; Did TikTok users and K-Pop fans inflate ticket numbers?
The Tulsa World estimates that about 10,000 people were inside the BOK Center for today’s rally for President Trump...
https://www.tulsaworld.com/news/local/tulsa-trump-rally-coverage-first-protester-arrested-in-tulsa-tells-her-story-did-tiktok-users/article_2e28adca-cb0e-58fc-b8db-7d61bf4ae02a.html


71 posted on 06/21/2020 5:22:23 AM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: beef

72 posted on 06/21/2020 5:22:55 AM PDT by knarf
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

73 posted on 06/21/2020 5:23:09 AM PDT by knarf
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I have no idea why they decided to talk up the large ticket requests. Obviously there is something fishy going on when you get a million requests for tickets for a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

That having been said, yes, NYT is being as slimy as ever with its coverage.


74 posted on 06/21/2020 5:24:17 AM PDT by Stravinsky (Politeness will not defeat the Marxist revolutionaries)
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To: sauropod

Is there also kiddie poem on Top Tok? Perhaps that’s the opening to start rounding these people up.


75 posted on 06/21/2020 5:24:52 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: MAGAthon

not 3 NYT “journos” needed to write it...add these two, listed at the bottom of the article:

Ben Fenwick and Katie Glueck contributed reporting from Tulsa.


76 posted on 06/21/2020 5:25:07 AM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: knarf

If demonstrators where blocking entrances and attacking rally attendees then why did the police and National Guard allow that to happen? How many were arrested?


77 posted on 06/21/2020 5:25:13 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

The preoccupation with crowd size misses the fact that millions watched the rally on TV and online. Trump got enormous earned media.


78 posted on 06/21/2020 5:28:07 AM PDT by kabar
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To: Stravinsky

Three possibilities as I see it.

1. Arrogance on the part of Trump’s campaign.
2. Technological ignorance on the part of Trump’s campaign.
3. Google deliberately fed the campaign fake analytics to keep them from catching on.

All not good.


79 posted on 06/21/2020 5:28:24 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?
Well they just made the best argument against on-line voting.
80 posted on 06/21/2020 5:29:43 AM PDT by McGruff
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