Trump Will Resume 2020 Campaign Rallies After Pause Due to Pandemic

It has been a different election year in 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic hit the U.S., causing a big shift to the presidential election campaign trail and almost grinding it to a halt.

Months after not holding any big campaign events due to the pandemic, President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign rallies are expected to resume.

The president announced on Wednesday that a rally will be held in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on June 19. Additionally, there will be rallies held in Arizona, Florida, and Texas, with another one in North Carolina expected at a later time.

This comes months after the last campaign rally, which was held on March 2 in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Trump’s campaign manager, Brad Parscale, is expected to share with the president options in the coming days on what safety measures will take place at the rallies, depending on the location.

Parscale said in a statement, “Americans are ready to get back to action and so is President Trump. The great American comeback is real and the rallies will be tremendous. You’ll again see the kind of crowds and enthusiasm that sleepy Joe Biden can only dream of.”

A Republican, who talks with Trump, told Politico, “If he’s telling the world it’s OK to get back to your life, at some point he has to get back to his life.”

Trump’s announcement that his campaign rally will be held in Tulsa on June 19 received backlash from Biden’s campaign director of strategic communications, Kamau Marshall.

Marshall tweeted, “If you don’t know — Do some research on #Juneteenth and the racial violence that took place in Oklahoma known as the Tulsa Race Massacre, 1921.”

The president has been itching to get out of the White House, according to Politico, and on Thursday, he will be heading to Dallas, Texas, where he will hold an event on U.S. racial disparities, followed by a fundraiser at a private residence.

The coronavirus pandemic is still affecting people across the globe. There are over 2 million confirmed cases in the U.S. and more than 115,000 deaths due to the virus, as of Thursday morning.

Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDanielsaid this week she believes there will be “full rallies” with safety precautions.