Interstate 5 (I-5)
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Interstate 5 is invoked as a concrete operational casualty of the Advance/Airlift miscommunication; its shutdown dramatizes how bureaucratic errors cascade into political problems and delay the ground movement of the delegation.
Imagined chaos: long backups and immobile vehicles — an urban bottleneck made politically consequential.
Logistical obstacle that raises the stakes of timing and optics for the California trip.
Embodies how small procedural failures can produce outsized political vulnerabilities.
Temporarily closed to traffic per CHP action.
Interstate 5 is referenced as the ground artery shut down for an hour and a half due to a miscommunication, a concrete logistical failure that will delay motorcade movements and complicate the delegation's ground plans.
Imagined gridlock and stalled movement — a sense of delayed momentum.
Logistical obstacle threatening on-the-ground arrival timetables and campaign coordination.
Embodies how small administrative errors can throttle political operations.
Closed to traffic for the period described.
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