Huge CAVEAT - there is still the impression of that we are still in a pandemic. Not one mention of Covid or Pandemic in the article.
Yep, consider the fact that there has literally been no mass gatherings like that for months, people were apprehensive and probably did get cold feet.
There is also still the impression of the BLM/Antifa goons roaming the streets in the larger cities. People may have stayed away for fear of clashing with, or getting caught between the police and those hoodlums too.
And that may have kept those with health issues away, because they don’t want to take the risk that might prevent them from casting their vote for President Trump. But the reality is millions tuned in to watch the rally on the internet, as well as, broadcasts of it on TV.
You must have read a different article:
News emerged that a half-dozen advance staffers had tested positive for coronavirus, a revelation that angered the president ahead of his departure for Oklahoma and further amplified fears that the event could spread the disease.
No mention of the record numbers who tuned in on TV and streaming. FOX News had its largest number of viewers in its history.
Five Quick Things: The Facts of Life Are Conservative, Even After Tulsa
1. The sabotaging of Trump’s rally also destroys the argument for mail-in balloting.
By now we don’t have to get too far into this. The president’s campaign is taking it on the chin since Saturday over the fact they touted some million people who had entered Eventbrite ticket requests for his rally in Tulsa, but something on the order of 7,000 people actually showed up.
This has been described as a disaster, though it’s not exactly clear why. Other than a few leftist protests here and there, including one promoting black trans people in Brooklyn, drawing 7,000 people to a political event in this COVID-19 era is a monumental feat. Certainly one that couldn’t be duplicated by Joe Biden, who refuses to leave his basement for anything associated with a public speaking engagement — largely, assuredly, for fear that a scant few people would actually show up.
But Trump’s rally was designated a major disappointment and a disaster, despite the fact it drew nearly eight million television viewers on broadcast and cable TV and another four million on streaming platforms, making it the gold standard for 2020 presidential election speeches and quite possibly the single most important political event of the first six months of 2020.
Nevertheless, the media narrative is a failure because of the million Eventbrite signups, some 300,000 came from Democrats aiming to sabotage the event. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed credit for “teens on Tik Tok” signing up fraudulently for Trump Tulsa tickets, while other Democrat activists bragged about the number of Eventbrite signups they were able to spam their way into soaking up.
Nobody on the Left, in their triumphal reveals, bothered to pay attention to the fact that what they’d done in taking credit for sandbagging Trump’s event was to bolster the argument against their No. 1 procedural issue of the 2020 election cycle — namely, the promotion of mail-in balloting.
To hear the Democrats talk about it, mail-in balloting is the most important solution to the COVID-19 pandemic, because it’s too dangerous for people to be together at a polling location. That is, of course, ridiculous — there have been lots of election dates across the country that have necessitated in-person balloting, and scant evidence those have led to incidences of the Wuhan virus spreading out of control.
The argument against wholesale mail-in balloting is simple and obvious; namely, it’s a bad idea to put big-city post offices in charge of ballot security when there are so many dishonest and corrupt partisan slimeballs out there who would tamper with elections.
Half the Democrat Party scoffed at that contention, while the other half proved its validity by tampering with Trump’s rally numbers in order to create the narrative that the most-watched political event of the 2020 cycle so far was a fizzle.
Sorry, folks. That’s an unmitigated #FAIL. Do better next time.
“ Huge CAVEAT - there is still the impression of that we are still in a pandemic. Not one mention of Covid or Pandemic in the article.”
You’re right. I am continually amazed by the number of people who are scared to death of the Wuhan flu. The fact that all of his pre-KungFlu rallies were packed, and that millions watched on TV or online, tells us that the enthusiasm for the President is still sky high, much to the chagrin of Commie News Network and the Slimes.
It may just be that lots of folks are still too scared of the Wuhan to sit shoulder-to-shoulder in an arena for hours with thousands of others.