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The Republican National Committee would choose a replacement candidate if Trump were incapacitated, but it is too late in most states to change the names on the ballot. Millions of ballots have been mailed to voters and at least 2.2 million people have already voted, according to figures compiled by University of Florida professor Michael McDonald.
RNC President Ronna McDaniel tested positive for the virus on Wednesday, a spokesperson said.
Campaign crisis
Trump underestimated the severity of the coronavirus outbreak in its early stages and has repeatedly predicted that it will disappear. He rarely wears a mask and regularly teases others, including Biden, for wearing them so often.
Trump’s advisers acknowledged that they would have to break their plans for the final weeks of the election campaign. Trump has held demonstrations in person with supporters who primarily refuse to wear masks and has mocked Biden for avoiding such events.
“Trump is an energetic president with a giant personality. Without his personality, the campaign loses its energy,” said Republican fundraiser Dan Eberhart.
Trump’s positive test also means that others at the highest levels of the US government have been exposed and may have to quarantine them as well. Meadows said all core White House personnel have been tested with negative results, and another White House official said contacts were being traced.
International leaders and American politicians from both sides of the aisle expressed sympathy for Trump, but his estranged niece, Mary Trump, criticized him for his handling of the pandemic response.
“I reserve my sympathy, empathy and despair for those who are sick and for those who have died because they were misled, misled or ignored,” he wrote on Twitter.
Trump is the latest world leader to test positive for the virus, which can cause a serious respiratory infection.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson continued to work in isolation for a week after testing positive in March, but then fell seriously ill and was rushed to intensive care. He spent several weeks recovering before returning to work.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau went into quarantine in March after his wife was diagnosed with the coronavirus. Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro called the virus a “little flu” after being infected in July.
On Thursday night, shortly after Trump predicted the end of the pandemic was in sight, it emerged that Hope Hicks, a senior adviser and trusted assistant, had tested positive for the virus. Hicks traveled with the president on Air Force One on Tuesday and Wednesday.
