US President Donald Trump again campaigned with a speech at the White House on Saturday, saying he was “feeling great” and that the Covid-19 pandemic was “disappearing.” He is scheduled to head to a rally in Florida on Monday, and in Pennsylvania and Iowa later in the week.
His Democratic challenger Joe Biden was in Pennsylvania for the 11th time, courting the battleground state that will play a pivotal role in deciding the election.
Trump was no longer a transmission risk to others, his doctor Sean Conley stated in a statement, adding that the president had been fever-free for 24 hours, all of his symptoms had improved, and there was no longer “evidence that the virus replicated. actively “in your body. .
“First of all, I feel very good. I don’t know about you. How does everyone feel? Well? “Trump said from a White House balcony overlooking his supporters who were standing below. He went on to say that the pandemic was disappearing and that vaccines and therapies were on the way.
Billed as a “peaceful protest in support of law and order,” the event marked the resumption of the president’s campaign, a forced rupture by his illness. “We are starting very, very big with our demonstrations … because we cannot allow our country to become a socialist nation,” Trump said.
Trump trails Biden by 9.6 points in the RealClearPolitics national polling average and by 10.1 points in the FiveThirtyEight national weighted average polls. The gap is smaller in battlefield states, which eventually determine the outcome in presidential elections because of the electoral college.
Biden was at one of them Saturday, presenting his case with a promise of employment and unity in Pennsylvania. “My plan is to make the kind of investments that will stimulate the economy, so that we can get back to full employment quickly and help rebuild better than before,” Biden said in Erie.
He added, with a reference to a campaign event in historic Gettysburg, also in Pennsylvania, recently: “As I said earlier this week on the holy ground in Gettysburg, I am running as a proud Democrat, but I will rule as an American President.” .
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