President Donald Trump says there has been “tremendous, tremendous” requests for tickets to his Tulsa Oklahoma rally scheduled for Saturday.
Trump was speaking in the White House at an event with Governors from Nebraska and Oklahoma, as well as members of his administration and some small business owners.
Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt said that nearly one million people have requested tickets to the event. Stitt had previously asked the White House to consider a larger, outdoor venue to accommodate them.
“It’s going to be safe and we’re really, really excited,” Stitt said.
The Trump campaign initially planned to hold the rally on Friday, which is Juneteenth, a celebration of the end of slavery in the United States, but agreed to move the date to Saturday at the request of Stitt and others.
Some Trump supporters have already started waiting in line outside the 19,000-seat BOK Center in downtown Tulsa.
Stitt, who plans to introduce Trump at Saturday’s rally, said he also asked Trump and Pence to join him on a tour of the city’s Greenwood District, once home to a prosperous African American community dubbed Black Wall Street that was burned to the ground during a racially motivated massacre in 1921 that left as many as 300 people dead.
Health officials, including Tulsa County Health Department Director Bruce Dart, have voiced concerns about having so many people in a confined space, noting both the state and Tulsa have seen daily highs in the number of positive cases in recent days.
While acknowledging the state has seen a recent surge in the number of people testing positive for the coronavirus, Stitt said much of that is due to an increase in testing. He said under 200 people are currently hospitalized due to COVID-19 and that the state has plenty of hospital capacity.
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