Several supporters for former President Donald Trump faced extreme heat on Thursday as they were waiting to see the presumptive GOP nominee. It has been noted that the local media reported that Phoenix Fire officials announced as many as eleven people waiting for Trump were taken to area hospitals due to heat-related illness via Mediaite.
Ben Brown from Arizona’s ABC15 caught on camera one of those eleven Trump supporters being taken to the hospital on a stretcher and reported, “I’ve seen so far at least 3 people carried off on stretches due to the heat as they wait in line in the sun to get into Donald Trump’s event … it’s 102 degrees out.”
Trump was speaking at an event organized by Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk and local news noted that “many attendees had been waiting outside the event since the early morning hours, long before Phoenix hit 110 degrees around 1:30 p.m. Thursday afternoon.”
It has been noted that the southwest is currently suffering a heat wave that has led to “excessive heat warnings and watches [being] extended from the central valley down through southern California’s deserts, southern Nevada and southern and western Arizona and into Utah, affecting over 29 million,” according to Axios.
It has come to light that Trump is expected to take questions from the friendly audience at the event, which was billed as a town hall. The former President has not campaigned in Arizona, a key 2024 swing state, since 2022 when he traveled the state stumping for his endorsed slate of candidates – all of whom lost their races.
Here is another person getting an IV pic.twitter.com/QxwNuwEy7p
— Ben Brown (@bdbrown473) June 6, 2024
