Eleven Trump Supporters Taken to Hospital While Waiting For Rally to Start

Supporters of former President Donald Trump braved extreme heat on Thursday as they waited to see the presumptive GOP nominee. Local media reported that Phoenix Fire officials announced 11 people waiting for Trump were taken to area hospitals due to heat-related illness.

Ben Brown from Arizona’s ABC15 caught on camera one of those eleven Trump supporters being wheeled off 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.”

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.

Trump is expected to take questions from the friendly audience at the event, which was billed as a town hall. Trump 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.