Faced with a troubling new political environment, President Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail on Monday when he declared himself healthy and donned a podium mask at a rally in Florida just a week and a half after testing positive for COVID-19.
"I don't have to be locked in my
basement and I won't let it happen anyway," Trump told supporters at
Orlando Sanford International Airport, his first major campaign rally since
falling ill with the coronavirus. ۔
Trump has hit the stage with new political
challenges: the Democratic challenger in a series of polls that is overtaking
Biden nationally and on key battlefield states such as Florida.
Claiming to be recovering from COVID
himself, Trump also insisted he was "exempt" from the virus, although
some medical professionals have said there is no guarantee.
"Now they say I'm immune. I just feel
so powerful," Trump said. "I will kiss everyone in this audience. I
will kiss boys and beautiful women. I will just give you a big, fat kiss."
Talking to stock market and Supreme Court
nominee Amy Connie Barrett, the team also returned to informational topics,
which were attacking Biden and the "Washington Establishment," and to
report to the media about their illness. Keep saving He promised to get a new
vaccine for Covid 19 soon, although doctors said there were still months to go.
On the latest developments, Trump said the
new election, which Biden was shown’ to be extending his lead, was
"fake", and he attacked the mail-in voting as potentially
"fraudulent."
After speaking for just 18 minutes on a
White House program on Saturday, Trump's return rally lasted a little over an
hour, close to normal length.
The trip to Florida, which will be
followed’ by rallies in Pennsylvania, Iowa and North Carolina this week, also
came amid repeated questions about the president's health.
In a statement issued just hours before
the Florida meeting, presidential physician Sean Conley said Trump had a
"continuous day" negative test for COVID-19 - he did not say which
one or how many - and “The president is not contagious.”
White House Press Secretary Kelly McKinney
and several of his fellow West Wing staff members announced last week that they
too had tested positive for the virus.
"Donald Trump is back on public
health," said Josh Schwartz of Priorities USA Action, a political action
committee that supports Democratic candidates.
"This trip is a reminder to voters
that Trump doesn't care about his health; he doesn't care about controlling the
virus so we can fix the economy." "He only cares about feeding his
ego in front of strong supporters like him."
Jonathan Rainer, a professor of medicine and
surgery at George Washington University, called Florida "crazy for a
variety of reasons."
For one thing, he said, the rate of
positive COVID cases in Florida is very high, "so it is certain that there
will be victims in this crowd and this could be another super-stripper
event."
Rainer also said it was not clear if Trump
was "really negative" because his doctor did not specifically say
that the more reliable "PCR test" turned out that way.
Questions also remain as he tweeted how he
announced his agreement with CoVID-19 that he had tested positive shortly
before 1 a.m. ET on October 2.
Since then, Trump and his aides have
denied that the last time he had a negative test, he ruled out the possibility
that he was already infected’ when he argued with Biden on September 29. Key,
the next night, hosted a rally in Duluth, Minn., and financially. Donors at
their New Jersey golf club the next day.
Trump spent the weekend of October 2-5 at
the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, returning to a national
television show late Monday in which he unveiled as he climbed the North
Portico. Trump has attributed his recovery to treatments that include Regeneron’s
Pharmaceuticals, an experimental antibody drug, and dexamethasone, a steroid.
During a week of condolences at the White
House, Trump visited the Oval Office, tapped video messages through which he
tweeted, and interviewed pro-talk show hosts.
The period of isolation ended with a rally
at the White House on Saturday, in which Trump addressed an invitation to
supporters from the balcony to the South Lawn.
Trump aides say he is well-equipped to
hold week-long rallies on Tuesday, including John Stone, PA. Des Moines on
Wednesday, and Thursday at Greenville, NC.
"They're strong," said campaign
manager Bill Stephen. , Who himself returned to the office this week after
testing positive for the virus. "He is strong. He is running to go."
Democrats questioned whether Trump should
take to the streets so soon after he fell ill.
Biden said Trump's visit to North Florida
was nothing more than "reckless behavior, separatism, and fear of
intimidation," as well as "no plans" to deal with the epidemic
and economic damage.
"His reckless personal behavior since
his diagnosis has been incomprehensible," Biden told supporters in
Cincinnati shortly before Trump's rally in Sanford.
Trump also returned to campaign more
actively.
After the debate - in which Trump
criticized Biden's continued interference and refusal to reject white supremacy
- Democrats increased their lead in the election.
In the recent national election, the
average of real clear politics gives Biden a lead of just over 10 percentage
points. According to the website's average state election, Biden also leads in
key states such as Florida (3.7% at the time of the rally), Pennsylvania
(7.3%), Michigan (7.0%), and Wisconsin (6.3%).
The race is also fierce in the Republican
states of Georgia and Texas.
Appearing in Florida, Trump said he had no
choice but to go out and campaign across the country.
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