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Eleven people have been hospitalized while waiting for a rally featuring Donald Thursday in Phoenix , where temperatures climbed to a sweltering 110 degrees and lingered in the triple digits.
City fire officials confirmed that number at 3 p.m. local time, saying all had been transported to local hospitals due to heat exhaustion while waiting to get into a Turning Point rally featuring the former president. Reporters on the scene shared video and photos on social media of rally attendees being carried off in stretchers and receiving intravenous fluids outside the venue.
“Our country’s falling to pieces, and these guys ― all they want to do is spend money on the ‘green new scam,’” Trump said at the rally, a reference to the Green New Deal, a Democrat-backed plan from 2019 to address climate change and shift to renewable energy resources.“I mean the things they’re spending money on, it’s like throwing the money out the window,” Trump continued. “And we don’t want to do that. We want to fix our roads and highways.
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