China News Agency, Houston, June 19 (Reporter Zeng Jingning) The Oklahoma Supreme Court on the 19th dismissed a temporary complaint that the United States President Trump was prohibited from holding a campaign at the Boke Center in Tulsa, the state. assembly. On the same day, Trump wrote on social media Twitter that the Tulsa rally meant that his re-election campaign was restarted.
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According to "USA Today" reports, Trump will hold a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma's second largest city, at 7 pm on the 20th. The city's Boke Center is an indoor stadium with 19,000 seats. Earlier this week, the city’s two businesses and two residents filed a joint appeal, requesting the state’s supreme court to stop the rally on the grounds that “this large-scale indoor activity may exacerbate the spread of the new crown virus throughout the city.” Held.
The judge said on the same day that during the New Crown Epidemic, Oklahoma proposed a plan to restart the economy. The details of the plan did not specify whether a large-scale rally could be held, and only asked for the social distance of people in entertainment venues, so the court ruled to dismiss this Temporary appeal.
According to CNN, since the beginning of March, due to the outbreak of the new crown epidemic in the United States, in order to avoid the spread of the virus, Trump, former US Vice President Biden and other US presidential election candidates have canceled the election rally. In other words, this will be Trump's first campaign rally after the outbreak. The US presidential election is held every four years. The current election day is scheduled for November 3, 2020.
In this regard, some people believe that the rally may bring a high risk of spreading the new coronavirus to the United States. The Speaker of the US House of Representatives and Democrat Nancy Pelosi recently said that President Trump’s rally "endangers" people's health.
Trump’s supporters claimed that Democrats did not raise such concerns when anti-racist demonstrators gathered around the country around June.
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According to the "Washington Post" report, the Trump campaign team has issued a statement saying that the personnel participating in the Tulsa rally will undergo a temperature check before entering the venue. The team also plans to distribute masks to participants, but did not wear masks, The requirement to maintain social distance. In addition, there is an exemption clause attached to the rally tickets that the event party does not bear the responsibility of the participants to infect the new crown virus during the event.
Recently, Trump said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal that some people attending the Tulsa rally may be infected with the new coronavirus, but "this will be a very small proportion."
Oklahoma Governor Steet recently expressed support for the rally when he met Trump at the White House. Stitt said the rally was safe. Stitt said that if anyone is worried that the rally will spread the new coronavirus, then these people should stay at home.
According to ABC reports, in order to avoid riots caused by this campaign rally, the Tulsa city government imposed a curfew on the night of the 18th and ended at 6 a.m. on the 21st.
According to data from Johns Hopkins University, as of 6:00 pm EST on the 19th, there were more than 2.21 million cases of new coronavirus in the United States and 9710 cases in Oklahoma. (Finish)