Video posted on social media Tuesday showed Democratic Mayor Matt Tuerk of Allentown, Pennsylvania, arguing with a Trump campaign employee near the site of a rally held by former President Donald Trump.
Trump held a rally at the PPL Center in Allentown Tuesday, which was across the street from the Lehigh County Governing Center, where voters were seeking applications for absentee ballots, the Lehigh Valley News reported. The video posted on social media showed Tuerk and the Trump campaign employee arguing over the movement of barricades that blocked traffic. (RELATED:
“You said it three times, and then all of a sudden you let the traffic come through and I’m trying to put out barricades while dodging cars at the same time,” the campaign employee told Tuerk.
“Don’t,” the employee continued. “Do you think I’m going to fucking take it off now?”
Tuerk claimed he didn’t want the Trump campaign employee to endanger himself.
“Oh yeah?” The Trump campaign employee responded. “We got cars coming in from all four intersections while I’m in the middle of it!”
Tuerk, who previously described Trump as an “unwelcome guest” in a Sunday post on X that invited people to attend Vice President Kamala