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northor it could be the worst-case scenario of a presidential campaign: a pandemic, an infected and hospitalized president candidate. An unprecedented situation, where the future is unpredictable 30 days before the elections in the first world power.
US President Donald Trump ended up succumbing to the effects of the “Chinese virus”, which he underestimated so much.
He ignored scientific criteria, repeatedly discredited his own medical experts, recommended ineffective treatments, questioned the effectiveness of the mask, and even mocked his Democratic rival Joe Biden for wearing a mask.
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It turned the pandemic into a political issue, when it was a public health issue. The cost that the country has paid has been very high. More than 200,000 Americans have died from the disease.
Trump’s positive diagnosis, without a doubt, constitutes a symbol of the crisis due to the pandemic in this country, the first in number of infections in the world.
Power does not give immunity, and the US president knows that well, who last Thursday became one more statistic than the 7.3 million infected with COVID-19 in the US reported until yesterday.
This is strong news for Trump’s re-election, sums up Suelen Castiblanco, researcher and professor at the Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences at the University of La Salle.
He bases his argument on that Biden could take this opportunity to point out how Trump downplayed COVID-19 at various times, and yet now it turns out that he was infected, as was his wife Melania.
In other words, “point out Trump’s miscalculations in the management of the pandemic, which have made the United States the country with the most deaths from the virus,” Castiblanco emphasizes.
Added to this, highlights the inappropriateness of the moment.
“It is very complex, less than two months before a very particular election in the way the voting is going to be done,” he says, but adds that it will also mean that Trump will not be able to proselytize for about three weeks.
In that vein, Castiblanco explains that Trump has a very strong speech that reaches his most radical electorate, who likes to see him at his rallies, and being out of campaign for several weeks, we will have to wait if this will have a negative impact.
David Castrillón, professor and researcher at the Faculty of Finance, Government and International Relations at the Externado de Colombia University, is concerned that President Trump was hospitalized yesterday.
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“That he does not do it in the White House, but in the hospital is because he needs it, he worries a lot, really,” says the expert.
Although he considers that in the end it may be a case like that of Boris Johnson, British Prime Minister, who although he was in intensive care with hospitalization last March, recovered.
His illness is another blow to his image, says Castrillón, referring to the results of his tax documents earlier this week, which show that Trump is not such a successful businessman.
Camilo Cruz, professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences and Government of the Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, believes that it is still an unexpected situation and in a very complex political time that raises many uncertainties.
The first thing, he emphasizes, is to know how serious the disease is. Trump has the profile of a high-risk population: 74 years old and overweight.
He mentions that what is known so far is that he suspended events for 15 days, when “the campaign is very important to ensure the votes of the electoral college.”
The human factor also affects the vote, adds Cruz, who assures that a sick candidate may have different appreciations, such as empathy from the electorate or a possible blocking of a more aggressive campaign by Joe Biden.
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