It is the first time it has accumulated an internal following since its June rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, which included rows of empty seats and was credited with a local spike in COVID-19 cases.
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Trump did not initially mention the coronavirus pandemic, which killed nearly 200,000 Americans and still kills another 1,000 people a day.
While few others in the crowd wore masks, those in the stands directly with Trump, whose photographs would be shown on television, were forced to cover his face in canopy.
The Tulsa rally, the first in three months after the coronavirus reached the shores of the United States, had been a crisis for the campaign.
A prominent Trump supporter at the rally, businessman and former presidential candidate Herman Cain, died of coronavirus weeks later, it was unclear whether he had contracted the disease in Tulsa.
Acknowledging that many supporters were uncomfortable congregating in a giant organization indoors, where the virus spreads most easily, the president’s crusade shifted to holding smaller meetings outdoors, in airplane hangars.
But those rallies have gathered momentum in weeks, with little social distancing and few masks.
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And when they returned to the rally for Sunday’s rally, temperature checks were carried out at the front of Henderson’s commercial and, although the masks were encouraged, few used them.
Nevada Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak has restricted the interior and gatherings to 50 more people since May, a restriction based on reopening white space guidelines.
Sisolak said Trump “is taking reckless and self-centered measures that endanger countless lives here in Nevada. “
“To put it bluntly: he didn’t have the courage to make tough decisions,” Sisolak said of Trump’s handling of the virus.
“He left this to governors and states. Now you have to not have to respect the laws of our state. As usual, you don’t think the regulations apply to you. “
City officials told Xtreme Manufacturing Sunday that the planned occasion in direct violation of the governor’s COVID-19 emergency directives and that they would follow sanctions.
Trump rejected the restrictions.
“If you can sign up for tens of thousands of people protesting on the streets, gambling in a casino, or setting small business riots on fire, you can meet peacefully under the First Amendment to hear the president of the United States,” the campaign said. communications director, says Tim Murtaugh.
So far, the crusade has not been like a selection choice between Trump and his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, but as a referendum on the president’s handling of the coronavirus.
By far, Americans disapproved of Trump, as the United States had suffered more deaths than any other nation.
During the rally, he warned that the country’s death toll from coronavirus is 180,000, about 14,000 less than the actual number.
He also gave the impression of repeating the approval of extrajudicial executions through law enforcement officers, after U. S. marshals killed a guy suspected of a fatal shooting in Oregon last month.
In a weekend interview, the president said, “That’s how it will be. There will have to be retaliation. “
Referring to the suspect who was shot through U. S. marshals in his rally speech, he said, “We sent American marshals, it was resolved in 15 minutes. “