Cedar Falls, Iowa
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is holding a rally here at the University of Northern Iowa Tuesday night, and the room was about half full shortly before the event began. Take a look:
As Trump begins Iowa rally, gym floor about half empty. He says fire marshal warned floor would collapse pic.twitter.com/1SPaK1GWJr
— John McCormack (@McCormackJohn) January 13, 2016
When Trump arrived on stage, he claimed the room was partially empty because the local fire marshal had warned the floor of the event might collapse, and that “hundreds” of people were being turned away at the door.
UPDATE: A reporter at FiveThirtyEight confirms that the fire marshal did close off the rally, but according to the reporter, dozens of people were shut out, not hundreds.
