… they’ll be dyin’
Students for Trump announced this week that President Trump is planning to speak later this month at their convention in Phoenix on June 23, marking his second visit to the state since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic.
But that visit comes as COVID-19 cases have climbed in recent days across the battleground state, with local health officials urging residents to avoid the very type of large indoor gatherings the president’s visit will likely involve.
“While any president has a right to visit our great city, it is very worrisome that this president will visit and have a rally as our state is seeing an increase in COVID-19 cases,” Phoenix Councilwoman Debra Stark told CBS News in a statement. Stark, a Democrat, represents the area where the convention will be held.
Students for Trump is a project of the conservative organization Turning Point Action and is not directly affiliated with the president’s campaign. An organizer with the group said thousands were expected to attend the president’s “address to young Americans” from across the country, which will also be streamed to satellite locations. The Trump campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
The president’s remarks are slated to take place on the campus of Phoenix mega-church Dream City Church, which touts a “6,500-seat auditorium, one of the largest sanctuaries in America” in a biography of its senior pastor.
Dream City Church, which reopened for in-person services at the end of May, declined a request for an interview. A video posted by the church urges worshippers to socially distance as they return to the campus, though it says masks are optional.
I think this one may be a bigger super-spreader event than Tulsa.
