re: Saturday Cometh!! –– People already lining up for Trump’s weekend rally in Oklahoma

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What Joe Biden’s Event Was Like
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As one candidate plays to a nearly empty room, another prepares for a rally with health risks.
By Lisa Lerer
June 17, 2020

DARBY, Pa. — In 2020, presidential campaigning is either chaos or quiet.

Over the course of my career covering politics, I have attended hundreds of presidential campaign events.

I’ve never been to one anything like Joe Biden’s economic address in the Philadelphia suburbs today.

There was no soundtrack of carefully selected, inoffensive pop music blasting in the background. No reporters fighting over power outlets and positioning. No rope line for the candidate to walk, shaking hands and snapping selfies.

Oh, and hardly any voters.

About 20 handpicked local officials, small-business owners and reporters sat in folding chairs, each placed within a large white circle taped on the floor of a recreation center to maintain — or at least encourage — social distancing. A few attendees whispered to each other as photographers quietly chatted. You could hear the clack of typing echoing across the room. The silence was striking.

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