claim: Milwaukee's Marcus Performing Arts Center – where 'The Daily Show' had been scheduled – “was originally located in the ‘soft perimeter,’ they called it, security-wise” but “was shifted, understandably so, to the ‘hard perimeter.’”
evidence: The RNC’s security "hard zone," where people need credentials to enter, encompasses the convention’s main buildings: Fiserv Forum, the UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena, and the Baird Center. Following the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, the director of the Secret Service said her agency’s security plan had been "strengthened" but that there were no changes to the perimeters of the security zone. At the time that "The Daily Show" canceled its Milwaukee trip, there were still questions about whether those security perimeters could change. But by the time Stewart was addressing his viewers about the canceled trip, there were no stated changes to the perimeters. The Marcus Center, where he was set to host his show, was not, and still is not, in the security "hard zone" as Stewart claimed.