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ive Updates on Trump Rally: 6 Campaign Workers Test Positive for Virus


The president is scheduled to speak a day after the Juneteenth holiday and during a period of nationwide protests over racism and police violence.

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Ahead of President Trump’s rally in Tulsa, his campaign acknowledged that six staff members who were working on the event had tested positive for the virus during routine screening.

ImagePresident Donald Trump boards Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews, Md., for a campaign trip to Tulsa, Okla., on Saturday.
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Rally workers test positive as Trump supporters gather in Tulsa.

Ahead of President Trump’s rally in Tulsa, Okla., Saturday night, his campaign acknowledged that six staff members who were working on the event had tested positive for the virus during routine screening.

“Six members of the advance team tested positive out of hundreds of tests performed, and quarantine procedures were immediately implemented,” said a campaign spokesman, Tim Murtaugh.

“No COVID-positive staffers or anyone in immediate contact will be at today’s rally or near attendees and elected officials,” he said. “As previously announced, all rally attendees are given temperature checks before going through security, at which point they are given wristbands, facemasks and hand sanitizer.”

Mr. Trump, made aware of the sick campaign aides before departing for the rally, was incensed the news was made public, according to two people familiar with his reaction.

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No additional information was given about those who tested positive, and a campaign spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a question about whether the cases were limited to those half-dozen staff members.

Mr. Trump’s team is hoping to fill the 19,000-seat BOK Center in this deep-red state even as he faces plunging poll numbers nationally, and in key battleground states.

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He is scheduled to attend two events in Tulsa: He will deliver brief remarks at what the White House called a “Great American Comeback Celebration” event, and then he will attend the rally inside the arena.

Just before noon on Saturday, the police arrested a woman in an “I Can’t Breathe” T-shirt outside the BOK Center, the Tulsa World reported. Sheila Buck, who lives in the city, said she had a ticket to the rally and was arrested for trespassing.

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