President Trump cut his Pennsylvania town hall short Monday night after multiple audience members experienced medical emergencies.

The event, which took place in the Philadelphia suburbs, had two lengthy pauses due to medical episodes in the crowd.

Trump forced to cut Pennsylvania town hall short after multiple audience members experience health emergencies https://t.co/AOaxl14WKL pic.twitter.com/jKtaplj3MM

— New York Post (@nypost) October 15, 2024

6 ABC reports:

There was a medical emergency that required an attendee to be placed on a stretcher about 30 minutes into the event. As the crowd started singing “God Bless America,” Trump requested that “Ave Maria” be played on the loudspeakers as medics tended to the man.

Moments later, there was a second medical emergency.

“The safety and well-being of President Trump’s supporters is always his top priority,” Karoline Leavitt, Trump’s campaign press secretary, said in a statement to ABC News after the event. “The two individuals who fainted were immediately given medical attention. As President Trump said tonight, they are great patriots,” Leavitt added.

Following the medical emergencies, Trump requested that the doors be opened but he was advised that for security reasons that wasn’t possible. Both Trump and moderator South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem commented on the heat in the room.

“Open the doors. I wish we could open those doors to outside,” Trump said. “For security reasons, they can’t. But you know what I suggest? Open them. Because anybody comes through those doors, you know what’s going to happen to them.”

WATCH:

There have now been two medical emergencies at Trump’s Pennsylvania Town Hall.

Please pray for everyone there. This is very unusual. Trump’s patience is unmatched. pic.twitter.com/NheKrM06st

— George (@BehizyTweets) October 14, 2024

“Personally, I enjoy this. We lose weight. We can do this, lose four or five pounds, it’s okay with me…They don’t want to give us air conditioning…Would anybody else like to faint? Please raise your hand.”

— Trump reacting to room temperature, Town Hall, Oaks, Pennsylvania pic.twitter.com/BAFtUmvD1I

— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) October 15, 2024

From the New York Post:

The much-hyped event initially went sideways when attendees heard a loud thud of what sounded like someone falling from bleachers — before a heavyset middle-aged man was wheeled out on a stretcher with his shirt cut open.

Minutes later, Trump was prevented from answering a question by more attendees shouting for medics.

The ex-president asked for the facility’s doors to be opened, but said later they could not be left ajar due to security concerns — as he and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, the event’s emcee, speculated that inflation had made air conditioning too expensive for the facility’s operators.

Trump outlined some, but not all, of his economic platform as he courted suburban voters in Pennsylvania’s third-most-populous Montgomery County, which he lost by large margins in both 2016 and 2020, as statewide polls show him neck-and-neck with Harris, 59.

If he returns to the White House — “You’re going to buy that house, and you’re going to pay two and a half, 3% interest, and you’re going to say, ‘I love this guy,’” Trump told his first questioner, a military veteran who said his family was struggling to buy a home.

Asked about grocery costs by a woman who said she was raised in a black and Democratic-voting union household in Philadelphia, Trump focused on record-high illegal immigration during Harris’ tenure as Biden’s point person on reducing migration along the southern border.

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