# @cnnpolitics on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2020-06-17T17:37:39.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) — https://gondola.cc/CNNPolitics

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A 51-year-old grandmother is using TikTok to encourage people to register for President Donald Trump's Tulsa rally — and then not show up.⁣⁣
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Mary Jo Laupp from Fort Dodge, Iowa, appears to have helped lead the charge to troll the President's campaign.⁣⁣
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"All of those of us that want to see this 19,000-seat auditorium barely filled or completely empty go reserve tickets now and leave him standing alone there on the stage," Laupp told her then-1,000 or so followers on TikTok, normally a social media platform known for dancing teenagers and not necessarily political action. After her post, many TikTokers began posting videos showing they too registered for the event.⁣⁣
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Trump has said almost 1 million people have requested tickets to attend the rally. ⁣⁣
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Despite their intent, the objective of the effort — to leave Trump with an empty stadium on Saturday — is almost certainly going to be unsuccessful. Although the capacity of the Bank of Oklahoma Center is just under 20,000, the Trump campaign has clearly not put a limit on how many people can request tickets.⁣⁣
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On top of that, to register for the event people have to hand over a phone number to the Trump campaign — feeding the campaign's vast data operation.⁣⁣
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Laupp, who said she worked on Pete Buttigieg's campaign in Iowa, told CNN she made the initial appeal because she was upset that the rally was originally set to take place on Juneteenth, the holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. The Trump campaign eventually moved it one day later after widespread criticism also noted Tulsa's history as the site of one of the worst incidents of racial violence in US history.⁣⁣
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