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Goodbye, Mail-in Ballots
How users of TikTok pranked the Trump campaign with fraudulent RSVPs and slammed the door on expanded mail-in voting.
While last night’s utter flop of a Tulsa Trump rally was hilarious for some- and harrowing for Trump staff members who probably spent the night wondering why 800,000 raving Trump fans weren’t bursting through the doors- it wasn’t all fun and games.
Early information indicates an online sabotage campaign, organized on the popular platform TikTok by young TikTok users and K-Pop (Korean Pop) fans, may have kept the turnout for Trump’s campaign low. This effort also caused the Trump campaign to plan and prepare for a massive rally- which didn’t happen.
Trump’s turnout was a mortifying 6,000 in an arena that could have seated almost four times that. Trump aides had to quickly scrap a plan to broadcast Trump’s speech to the overflow crowd outside. By the time it became clear there would be no overflow crowd, the damage was done.
Progressives, elected like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and prominent members of the media alike, should enjoy this laugh while they can.
There might not be much to laugh about once the dust has settled.
The Trump campaign, and his Republican-run Senate, are going to use this incident in ways which are not going to make Democrats happy.