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The president of the United States, Donald Trump, still sick with covid-19, fought Tuesday to get his re-election campaign on track before the advance of his rival, the Democratic candidate Joe Biden, who appealed to the unity of the country with four weeks to go before the November 3 elections.
Convalescing in the White House after three nights in hospital, the Republican president, 74, once again minimized the threat of the pandemic, while the former vice president of Barack Obama, 77, tested negative for the coronavirus again and continued to tour the country calling to save “the soul of States United”.
“The fake news media (…) just want to talk about covid-19,” Trump complained on Twitter, upset that – he said – they don’t mention how “good” the economy is.
In that area, however, he himself caused waves to abruptly break negotiations with the Democrats for a new aid plan to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on homes and businesses, suspending them until “after you win.”
His decision sent Wall Street into a tailspin, which closed in the red. For its part, Biden was quick to accuse him of “turning his back” on Americans..
Trump’s tumultuous day was marked by a new poll of intention to vote favorable to Biden.
A CNN / SSRS poll showed the former vice president 16 points above the mandatory (57% to 41%), after another from NBC News and Wall Street Journal – published on Sunday – pointed to a difference of 14 points for Biden compared to Trump (53% to 39%).
“The same pollsters showed the president losing in 2016. He won the race then and he’s doing the same now,” Hogan Gidley, Trump 2020 press secretary, said on Fox News.
“Dark forces”
In the key states To win the election, Biden leads Trump by an average of 4.4 points, according to compiled surveys from RealClearPolitics.
Since Pennsylvania, one of those “battlefields”, Biden redounded in his calls to overcome polarization and hatred.
“The dark forces, the forces of division, the forces of yesterday are tearing us apart, holding us down and holding us,” Biden said at the site of the famous Battle of Gettysburg where – in 1863 – Abraham Lincoln’s unionists won a decisive victory over the Confederates.
“We cannot and will not allow white supremacists to end the America of Lincoln and (abolitionists) Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass,” he added.
Biden did not mention Trump but his comments came a week after the President will refuse to directly condemn white nationalism during the first – and controversial – presidential debate in Cleveland, Ohio.
In a 24-minute video, the popular Former First Lady Michelle Obama Reaffirmed Biden’s Message branding Trump a “racist” and pointing out that his strategy of scaring, dividing and promoting conspiracy theories could “destroy” America if he is reelected.
“Extremely fine”
Trump insisted on projecting an image of a fearless leader that defeated the covid-19 after suggesting that it may be “immune” to the virus and calling not to fear it or to be dominated by it.
White House physician Sean Conley said the president, who received a cocktail of experimental therapies following the announcement of his positive diagnosis on Friday, did not report “any symptoms” of the disease and was “extremely well overall.”
“I FEEL GOOD!”Trump tweeted. “I’m looking forward to the debate on Thursday night, October 15, in Miami. It will be great! ”, He added, about the second scheduled duel with Biden.
The Democratic candidate, however, said he would object to debating with the president next week if he was still sick with covid-19. “I hope all the protocols are followed,” Biden said.
This Wednesday Biden’s running mate, Kamala Harris, and Vice President Mike Pence will meet in Utah for their only planned duel, in which they will be separated by a Plexiglas barrier.
With more than 210,000 deaths in the past seven months, Covid-19 is poised to be the third leading cause of death in the United States this year.
US Chief of Staff Gen. Mark Milley quarantined himself after Coast Guard No. 2 Admiral Charles Ray announced that he had tested positive for COVID-19.
It was also learned Tuesday night that Stephen Miller, one of Trump’s closest advisers and the architect of his anti-immigration policy, is also infected.
But Trump again downplayed the pandemic, taking up in a tweet one of his old arguments when comparing it with the seasonal flu and ensuring that the country does not stop for the “sometimes more than 100,000” people who die a year “even despite the vaccine.”
That death toll, not supported by the US health authorities, led Twitter to later label Trump’s tweet as “misleading and potentially harmful information related to covid-19.”
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