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Political scientist and editor of the AmerikanskPolitikk.no website
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On Friday morning it became known that the president of the United States, Donald Trump, and the first lady Melania are infected with the coronavirus. Trump has now been admitted to a military hospital for observation in the next few days.
Several members of Trump’s circle of friends have reported positive test results for COVID-19.
Are Tågvold Flaten is a political scientist and editor of the website AmerikanskPolitikk.no. He believes that Trump’s coronary disease is changing the entire election campaign.
– The Biden campaign is now removing negative Trump ads. At the same time, the Trump campaign accuses Biden of attacking Trump in the hospital bed, which is not true. The Trump campaign has not agreed to tone down the election campaign in the same way as Biden’s campaign, Flaten says.
He thinks staying put in the pot is a good strategy for challenger Joe Biden.
– The fact that Trump is now infected underscores the point of Biden’s campaign that Trump has not handled the pandemic well enough in the United States. When Trump mocks Biden for wearing a mask in a debate to become infected with the crown, it is not a stronghold for Trump.
Trump on the way to the hospital.
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You must show that you are not taking advantage of the situation.
Flaten believes that it is important for Biden to show that he is not taking advantage of the situation, so that the Republicans can use this against him again.
– It is probably prudent to leave the focus on Trump and more and more people getting infected. It underscores Biden’s points that Trump has not taken the COVID-19 situation seriously.
Flaten says that Biden is way ahead in the election campaign historically.
– His tenure is stronger than Hillary Clinton’s in 2016. But this is October and there may be more surprises, says Flaten.
Trump thanks before supporting in a video greeting.
Historian and author Hans Olav Lahlum.
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In the past few hours, it has emerged that several members of Trump’s circle of friends are infected with corona. Historian and author Hans Olav Lahlum believes that precisely this can swing the pendulum in a negative direction for Donald Trump.
– It is serious that several in Trump’s circle of friends are infected with the political consequences in mind. It shows poor infection control within the upper echelon of the White House administration. This reinforces the impression that challenger Joe Biden appears to be more responsible and presidential.
– How will it affect the election campaign if it turns out that you have infected several people after you found out yourself that you are infected?
– The evolution that we have seen in this area in the last hours goes in a clearly negative direction for the president’s electoral campaign. Poor preparation for infection control within the White House is unreliable in the situation the United States finds itself in.
Voices of sympathy
Lahlum also believes that Trump may also get more sympathy votes.
– But the detrimental effect for Trump is greater by mismanagement of infection control.
In opinion polls, Joe Biden has been between five and eight percentage points ahead of Donald Trump.
– Nobody in modern times has managed to win when you are so late a month before the election campaign. Trump was in a situation of pressure even before this, says Lahlum.
President Donald Trump and his wife, First Lady Melania Trump, tested positive for COVID-19. Now a major infection-tracking job begins that will likely have to put several key U.S. politicians to the test.
