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“I feel good,” the US president assured several hundred supporters who had gathered under a White House balcony and has planned more campaign appearances for next week.
US President Donald Trump made public appearances Saturday for the first time since his return from the hospital. “I feel good,” Trump said in front of several hundred supporters who had gathered under a White House balcony. The president, who had been hospitalized for three days for a coronavirus infection, was not wearing a respirator when he appeared.
“I want you to know that our nation will defeat this terrible virus from China,” Trump said in front of the enthusiastic supporters. Most of them wore masks, but did not comply with the distance rules at the outdoor event.
“He’s going to go, he’s going to go,” Trump said of the virus that has killed more than 210,000 people in the United States and reduced his chances of re-election.
Central theme: “law and order”
“Get out there and vote, and I love you,” Trump told his supporters, many of whom wore bright red caps with the words “MAGA” (Make America Great Again). Trump’s 18-minute speech was primarily about law and order.
The corona diagnosis suddenly interrupted Trump’s election campaign just weeks before the November 3 presidential election. While the incumbent had to bounce back, his Democratic challenger Joe Biden completed several campaign events in key states. The former vice president is 10 percentage points ahead of the incumbent in national polls. Biden was also able to extend his leadership in the states holding the elections.
“The president wants to be there”
Trump himself is increasingly impatient to get out of the White House after his Covid 19 illness and address people directly again. “The president wants to be there,” said Hogan Gidley, a spokesman for his campaign team, Fox News. Trump wants to “address the Americans directly, without the filter through the media.”
An election campaign appearance in Florida scheduled for this Saturday will now take place on Monday. Additionally, Trump’s campaign team announced two more campaign events in the coming week. Trump wants to perform Tuesday in Johnstown in the key state of Pennsylvania and Wednesday in Des Moines in the state of Iowa.
Meanwhile, in the field of Trump’s Republicans, concern is growing about the development of the electoral campaign. “If people are angry on Election Day, we could lose the White House and both houses of Congress,” said Republican Senator Ted Cruz. “That could be a bloodbath.”
Meanwhile, Biden has tested negative for the corona virus, his employees said Saturday.
(APA / AFP / Reuters)
