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Aiming to get his campaign back on track, United States President Donald Trump and his team presented an aggressive return to political activities on Friday, including a major event at the White House on Saturday and a rally in Florida on Friday. Monday, a week after his hospitalization for the coronavirus. which has killed more than 210,000 Americans.
As questions about his health persist, and Democratic opponent Joe Biden intensifies his own campaign, Trump plans to leave Washington for the first time since announcing his diagnosis.
He’s also increasing his radio and television appearances with conservative interviewers, hoping to make up for lost time with just over three weeks until Election Day and millions already voting. The president has not been seen in public – except in videos produced by the White House – since he returned days ago from the military hospital where he received experimental treatments for the virus.
Two weeks after his Rose Garden event, which has been labeled a “super spreader” of the virus, Trump plans to summon another large crowd outside the White House on Saturday on his law and order issue.
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More than two dozen people with ties to the White House have contracted Covid-19 since the President’s Sept. 26 event in which Justice Amy Coney Barrett was announced as his Supreme Court nominee.
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A Marine is stationed outside the West Wing of the White House, which means that the President is in the Oval Office.
Trump will address the group, which is expected to have at least several hundred supporters, from the White House balcony, according to an official.
A person with planning knowledge said all attendees should bring masks or they will be provided, and they will also be given temperature checks and asked to fill out a short questionnaire.
Following the CDC guidelines, which include wearing masks and social distancing, will be strongly recommended. Trump’s Monday rally in Sanford, Florida, was originally scheduled for October 2, the day after he tested positive.
The announcement of the event came when Dr. Anthony Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert, warned the White House again to avoid large-scale gatherings of people without masks. “I wasn’t surprised to see a wide-spread event under the circumstances.” He said of the Barrett meeting.
Trump tweeted Friday that he would be in Sanford “for a GREAT RALLY!” Meanwhile, he was hanging around the conservative media, calling Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday night and spending two hours live with radio host Rush Limbaugh on Friday in what his campaign called a “radio rally.”
In court in his battle for re-election, his fight against the coronavirus, and revived negotiations with Democrats to pass an economic stimulus bill, Trump was making a direct appeal to his loyal fan base, whom he needs to turn to. the ballot boxes en masse.
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US President Donald Trump holds up his mask as he stands on the balcony of the Blue Room as he returns to the White House from the hospital.
He was going to follow that with a recorded appearance for Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show on Friday night. While concerns about the infection appeared to thwart plans for next week’s presidential debate, Trump said he believes it is no longer contagious. “My voice is perfect now,” he said. he told Limbaugh.
Fauci said in her interview with AP: “Let me tell you what the CDC guidelines are for getting people back into society. It is generally 10 days from the start of your symptoms. “
That start for Trump was October 1, according to his doctors. The White House President’s physician, Navy Commander Sean Conley, said that means that Trump, who has been surrounded by minimal staff while working out of the White House residence and the Oval Office, could redo events on Saturday.
Conley added that Trump showed no evidence that his disease progressed or adverse reactions to the aggressive course of therapy he has received. While reports of reinfection in Covid-19 victims are rare, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that even people recovering from the disease continue to wear masks, stay away, and follow other precautions.
It was unclear whether Trump, who has refused to wear masks in most settings, would abide by that guidance. In the interview with Limbaugh, Trump once again took credit for the experimental antibody drug he received last week for speeding up his recovery. “I was not in the best shape,” he said. “A day later he was fine.”
He promised to speed up distribution of the drug to Americans in need, although that would require action from the Food and Drug Administration. He speculated to Limbaugh that without the drug, “I might not have recovered at all.”
However, there is no way of knowing how the drug affected its progression with the virus. Despite public and private polls showing him behind Democrat Biden, Trump predicted a bigger victory in 2020 than four years ago.
She obtained a majority in the Electoral College in 2016, although she lost the national popular vote to Democrat Hillary Clinton. Regarding financial aid to businesses and individuals affected by the pandemic, he said: “Frankly, I would like to see a bigger stimulus package than what the Democrats or Republicans offer. She made that comment a few days after canceling talks with Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi “until after the election” because the Republican Party resisted the high price of aid she was asking for.
