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The president of United States, Donald Trump, He appeared this Saturday without a mask before hundreds of supporters and said he felt “great” from the balcony of the White House, in his first public event since he was infected with covid-19.
In an effort to relaunch his campaign and cut the disadvantage that the polls give him against the Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, three weeks before the presidential elections, the president said: “I feel great.”
This Saturday’s event set the stage for the return to the ring next week, despite concerns that the president could still be spreading the virus.
In addition to the planned rally in Florida on Monday, Trump will hold two additional campaign events next week. Tuesday will be in Pennsylvania, a key state for the president seeking re-election, and on Wednesday the appointment will be in Iowa, his campaign team reported.
“I want you to know that our nation is going to defeat this terrible virus from China,” he added, before hundreds of people who attended the outdoor event, where it was mandatory to wear a mask but there was little social distancing.
“It will disappear, it is disappearing”, he said about the virus, which has killed more than 213,000 Americans and undermined his chances of accessing a second term.
Twenty-five days before the November 3 elections and eight days after his covid-19 infection was known, Trump, 74, asked: “Come out and vote”, before the crowd where red caps predominated with their slogan “Make America Great Again ”(Make America Great Again).
“Four more years, four more years”, they accompanied him in chorus, throughout his 18-minute speech on law and order.
Struck by his three-night hospitalization last week, the president is in the midst of a frenzied attempt to regain ground from Biden, whom polls show as the national winner.
“More than 213,000 Americans have died from this virus, and the stark reality is that it could have been prevented,” Biden tweeted on Saturday.
Earlier, the former vice president had criticized Trump’s attitude: “His reckless personal conduct since his diagnosis, the destabilizing effect he is having on our government, is inconceivable.”
Without medication
On Friday, Trump did not stop campaigning by falsely claiming that covid-19 already has a “cure”, alluding to the experimental treatment they administered.
Too He said that doctors had told him that he was close to dying at the worst moment of his treatment.
In an interview aired on Friday night by Fox, the recording date of which was unknown, he said he was “free of medication” and “not having trouble breathing.”
He also said that he was tested for the disease again but that he still does not know “the numbers” but “I know that I am at the bottom of the scale or free”.
In an attempt to portray an image of strength, Trump declined to participate in the debate scheduled for next week after organizers changed it to an online format due to the coronavirus.
The commission in charge of organizing the debates later announced the cancellation of the debate on the 15th, so there is only one face-to-face between the two before the elections, on October 22.
The cancellation sparked a series of accusations from the Republican side. Trump’s campaign communications director Tim Murtaugh said there is “no medical reason to stop” the October 15 debate.
Democratic advantage
Biden easily leads the polls and has the support of women and the elderly, leading analysts to speak with increasing confidence of a landslide victory for the Democrat.
Trump’s infection has intensified criticism of the president for his attitude and his handling of the pandemic.
Adding to the pressure of the campaign is the fact that the Democrats, who control the House of Representatives, proposed creating a panel to assess the ability of presidents to govern.
In the Republican field, the concern is increasingly palpable. Some tenors are openly alarmed by the development of the campaign. “If people are angry on Election Day (…), we could lose the White House and both houses of Congress,” warned Republican Senator Ted Cruz. “It could be a bloodbath” for the “Great Old Party, or GOP, as the Republican Party is known,” he added.
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