Trusting his campaign aides, the president was under the impression that the arena was going to be packed, with an additional hundred thousand supporters in the overflow area outside. No one of sane mind in the White House believed this, though. Tony had been tracking ticket distribution all week. “They’re all nuts if they think that many people are coming,” he told me in his office. “But people are flocking online to get tickets,” I said, parroting what we had heard from the campaign. “Antifa is getting the tickets. Kids on TikTok are getting the tickets. Trust me, it’s not our people. We’ve
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Oklahoma campaign rally that was sparsely attended during COVID
