From: januarybaybee@gmail.com   
      
   Wed 28 Oct 2020   
      
      
   Trump supporters hospitalized after being stranded in freezing cold at   
   late-night rally   
      
      
   Seven people have been hospitalized after attendees of a late-night Trump   
   rally at an airport in Omaha, Nebraska, were stranded in the cold.   
      
   A large portion of the crowd, estimated to be in the thousands, remained at   
   the site waiting on buses hours after Trump’s plane had departed, according   
   to reporters on the scene. Outside temperatures were about at the freezing   
   point.   
      
   The problem was blamed on limited traffic flow on the two-lane road that led   
   to the site of the rally.   
      
   Police-monitoring sites on social media reported that some people suffered   
   adverse effects from temperatures hovering around 30F (-1C) as they waited for   
   shuttle buses or tried to walk to their cars more than two miles away   
   following the rally.   
      
   “Many people underestimated the distance from the event back to the parking   
   lot on foot,” officer Michael Pecha, spokesman for Omaha police, said in the   
   statement.   
      
   Police said 40 buses were used to shuttle 25,000 people over a 10-hour period,   
   starting at 10am, to the event site, although an undisclosed number left   
   before the rally ended, police said.   
      
   Traffic became snarled, and awaiting buses which can hold about 50 riders each   
   were overwhelmed when crowds left the event around 9pm, police said.   
   Additional buses were called in to try to get people to their cars.   
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   Police said the last of the rally goers were able to leave around midnight.   
      
   Trump’s deputy national press secretary Samantha Zager said in a statement   
   that the 40 shuttle buses the event deployed was twice the number usually   
   deployed at Trump campaign rallies. But “local road closures and resulting   
   congestion caused delays”   
   , she said.   
      
   “At the guest departure location, we had tents, heaters, generators, hot   
   cocoa, and handwarmers available for guests,” Zager said. “We always   
   strive to provide the best guest experience at our events and we care about   
   their safety.”   
      
   Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on Wednesday used the image of Omaha   
   supporters left in the cold after the rally to criticise Trump’s handling of   
   the coronavirus pandemic.   
      
   “It’s an image that captured President Trump’s whole approach to this   
   crisis,” Biden said.   
      
   Trump was in Omaha because it shares a media market with a lot of Iowa, where   
   the president appears to be trailing Biden despite winning the state in 2016   
   by almost 10 points. Also, Nebraska splits its electoral votes by   
   congressional district – Maine    
   does too but every other state is winner-takes-all – and the second   
   congressional district in Douglas County that is polling strongly for Biden,   
   potentially giving the Democrat its one electoral vote, as it did for Obama in   
   2008.   
      
      
      
   https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/oct/29/trump-supporters   
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