Trump Plans To Hold Rally At Florida Early Voting Site | Talking Points Memo

[caltg]

@jjwhack

He’s going to pull out all the stops for this one.

No doubt, a super-spreader event 150 feet from a public polling place in a stadium parking lot.

What could possibly go wrong?

[daveminnj]

Such a rancid fucking scumbag.

[srfromgr]

Outrageous…but I guess that’s the whole point, isn’t it?

I can’t believe there’s no law that says you can’t impede a voting site by intentionally blocking traffic.

This is just one of tRump’s ‘in your face’ defiant adolescent style interruptions at work meant to sow as much chaos as possible and steal a day away from any liberal or progressive voters that might not want to go near that polling place if this is going on.

Fuck Him.

[zenicetus]

@inversion

The rally, in the north parking lot of Raymond James Stadium, will not violate the 150-foot barrier established by Florida law prohibiting politicking near a polling site.

He’ll have a PA system at that event, a big one. If the local election officials and law enforcement are doing their job, they won’t allow it to be heard inside that barrier. One of his rally PA’s could be easily heard inside the voting area.

Of course there’s no legal precedent for this, so they won’t do anything and he’ll get away with it as usual. He has done a great job in finding all the loopholes in our Democracy, hasn’t he? Maybe a Biden administration and the “woke” states can do something about it.

[haddockbranzini]

@lastroth

Sometime the local officials are going to have to put their big boy pants on and say “No!”

And have the Trump loving police unions and sherif departments enforce it?

[inversion]

@zenicetus

He’ll have a PA system at that event, a big one. If the local election officials and law enforcement are doing their job, they won’t allow it to be heard inside that barrier. One of his rally PA’s could be easily heard inside the voting area .

It’ll be heard, because he knows a guy.

[inversion]

@zenicetus

Of course there’s no legal precedent for this, so they won’t do anything and he’ll get away with it as usual. He has done a great job in finding all the loopholes in our Democracy, hasn’t he? Maybe a Biden administration and the “woke” states can do something about it.

‘k’

[lastroth]

@haddockbranzini

And have the Trump loving police unions and sherif departments enforce it?

Do those police officers and sheriffs live in DC? They’re suppose to live in the area that they serve.

[darrtown]

If that rally were to happen here in AZ all the signs and political junk would need to be 75 feet from the voting site. You cannot bring signs into a voting site in AZ. Very likely MAGA hats and trump t-shirts either. I could be wrong about that last bit though.

[losamigos]

The Secret Service has the authority to shut down entire neighborhoods prior to Presidential arrivals, and they will likely compromise the voting process by shutting down access to the polls there.

Trump won the Tampa area in 2016, but HRC won the downtown Tampa area where the stadium is (to the west). Trump knows he has a SService army, and choose this parking lot to disrupt the voting process in a Democratic area.

Unrelated, but funny… (God we need humor these days)

[inversion]

I think Hillsborough will figure something out (I’m hedging), but I’m interested to see if anyone in Tallahassee wants to chime in.

[daveyjones64]

So, Hillsborough county, which is where the stadium is located, numbers as of today:

Dems: 208,956 voters
republicans: 161,395 voters
NPAs: 109,813 voters

So no, its not a Trump area. None of the major cities in Florida are “trump” areas.

@losamigos

Trump won the Tampa area in 2016

That’s incorrect: HRC won Hillsborough 51 vs. 44.

https://enr.electionsfl.org/HIL/Summary/1649/

He did win neighboring Pinellas County (St. Pete and environs) 48 vs. 47

https://enr.votepinellas.com/FL/Pinellas/64408/183835/en/summary.html

But Pinellas is working it hard to make up for this cycle. They currently have 60% Dem votes cast vs. 53% republican.

[tao]

Voting interference. Plain and simple. Blocking access to the polls with crowds of unmasked idiots spreading COVID 19 as an added incentive to stay away. The objective is to prevent a day of early voting turnout.

[hahagoodman]

Will there be enough buses to shuttle the faithful back to the parking lot
thank God it’s not in Nebraska at night.

[losamigos]

Obviously the term “Tampa area” is subject to definition.

The Tampa Bay Times, which includes Pinellas, (trump +5K votes); Pasco, (trump +52K votes); and Hernando, (trump +27K votes). Clinton won Hillsborough, (trump -40K votes), for a “Tampa area” vote of net Trump +44K votes.

Yes, HRC won Hillsborough definitively. Which is my point. Why is Trump there, except to disrupt the Dem-centric early voting.

[inversion]

Trump: “its too hot and also too cold. I don’t want to be here,but if Brady can win here, why not me? ‘Be like Tom’; we both have foreign sounding wives. Giselle is taller, but Melania is bigger in what matters. She’s all natural and I’ll fight anyone who says otherwise. Except for resistance women. They say they are, but…”

[manhattan123]

A Trump rally: come for the stupid, stay for the COVID.

[playitagainrowlf]

@manhattan123

A Trump rally: come for the stupid, stay for the COVID.

Freeze to death waiting for the bus…

[DuckmanGR]

Someone has found the loopholes, I’d wager that rancid turd isn’t one of them.

[oscarhomolka]

Maybe the event planners at the Raymond James Stadium are die-hard republicans.