How Donald Trump campaign's plans for a triumphant rally went awry

Instead of offering Trump a glide path back into the campaign season, Saturday's rally in Tulsa has become yet another flash point for a candidate who has repeatedly displayed insensitivity about race

Brad Parscale, the Trump campaign manager, needed to find a host city for the president’s triumphant return to the campaign trail, and he didn’t have much time.

Reviewing a list of potential locations over the past few weeks, Mr. Parscale quickly settled on Tulsa, Okla., people familiar with the planning said in interviews, mostly because it seemed easy. A deep red state President Trump carried by 36 percentage points four years ago, Oklahoma wasn’t in play for the November election. But it was the furthest along of any state in the country in terms of reopening, and it had seen