Pence says another venue is being considered for Trump’s Tulsa rally because of many requests to attend

On “Fox & Friends” Tuesday morning, Vice President Mike Pence said another venue is being considered for President Trump’s campaign rally in Tulsa, Okla., because of the overwhelming response to the event. After the interview, Ali Pardo, deputy communications director for the Trump campaign, clarified Pence’s remarks, saying the rally will remain at the BOK Center in Tulsa, but that the campaign is "also considering other areas adjacent to the arena to allow the president to address even more people."

Video Transcript

- Mr. Vice President, you mentioned the coronavirus pandemic. Some states are opening faster than others, North Carolina not as fast as you would like. And that's why you have pulled the big balloon drop for the RNC from North Carolina. It's now going to be in Jacksonville in the month of August.

Let me ask you about this, regarding-- and this goes back to Ainsley's question about what you're going to be doing in Tulsa. I know the governor is looking at the venue, because you had a million people apply. Why don't you do some of this stuff outside, a great big stadium?

I mean, Brian and I were in Denver back in 2008 when Barack Obama accepted his party's nomination at Broncos Stadium. I think there were 75,000 or 80,000 people outdoors. And I only suggest outdoors because we just had Dr. Oz on about a half an hour ago. And he said when you're in an enclosed place with a lot of people yelling-- and you do hope there's a lot of yelling at the-- and cheering at the rally in a couple of days-- you have the aerosol. And that stays in the air for hours.

So just in the interest of public safety, maybe you do it outside going forward.

MIKE PENCE: Well, Steve, it's-- you know, you raise a good point. And what I can tell you is it's all a work in progress. We've had such an overwhelming response that we're also looking at another venue. We're also looking at outside activities. And I know the campaign team will keep the public informed as that goes forward.

But it's one of the reasons why that we're going to do the temperature screening, and we're going to provide hand sanitizers and provide masks for people that are attending.