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On Monday, President Donald Trump’s election campaign tour begins again and the first stop is Florida.
Dagbladet is in Sandford and will follow the public meeting, which begins Tuesday night.
The return turns the city upside down
This is Trump’s first public meeting since he confirmed that he tested positive for Covid-19 in early October, ignoring the fact that on Saturday last week he gathered a large crowd in front of the White House for an event on “law”.
– How do Americans receive it, given Trump’s health situation?
– It only confirms people’s opinion about Trump. Democrats see him as incorrigible. Trump’s voters see him as a Joan of Arc in the cultural fight against bandages and coronary restrictions, Hilmar Mjelde, an American researcher at the University of Bergen (UiB) and the Norce research center, tells Dagbladet.
Towards the polls
On Twitter, Trump also goes against polls referred to by the media. According to national polls, Joe Biden is way ahead, at about 53 percent to 42 percent, according to FiveThirtyEight and CNN.
– So much fake news, writes Trump, who thinks the media has “gone completely crazy because they realize that we won big in all the polls that matter.”
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– Write or show one false case after another. They are really sick people. Vote !!!
– There are measures that show that it is leading. Everything else is “fake” surveys. He will not associate with information that is unfavorable to him, says Mjelde.
– It looks very bad
– It cannot be depreciated
The night before Norwegian time Sunday, Trump’s doctor, Sean Conley, stated that he believes Trump is no longer contagious to others and may end isolation. At the same time, he did not directly say that Trump is healthy, or whether he has tested negative for the coronavirus after falling ill.
– Is this election campaign tour a desperate move?
– No, Trump is always in attack mode. That is what he enjoys and knows the most. Trump got his mojo back, says Mjelde and continues:
– Of course, you must campaign in the election campaign. Trump gets a lot of energy from the big crowds. He is the best electoral campaign politician in the United States. Biden also likes to meet with voters, but Biden has many more considerations about the crown.
Despite Biden’s leadership in the polls, the American expert believes that Trump is not out of the game.
– Trump cannot be ruled out. He won in 2016 giving the iron the last three weeks. Trump is no more behind Biden than he can still win this.
– Go to hell
Trump is also very active on Twitter right now. In two separate Twitter messages, the president claims that the state of California “is going to hell” and that the state of New York has already “gone to hell.”
It is not known exactly what Trump is referring to, but many of the residents of the states are not expected to vote for Trump. Mjelde believes that Trump speaks as if he is “the president of the Republicans,” not the president of the entire United States.
Trump says he’s immune
– Trump speaks, for example, of the crown in the blue and red states. This is not entirely logical for a nationalist like Trump. He should be the leader of all the people, including the most populous state, says Mjelde.
The United States is very affected by the coronavirus. During a press conference in September, the president said that the death toll wasn’t really that bad, if you don’t count the blue states.
At the time, the New York Times called the statement shocking, but at the same time revealing for a leader who for a long time seemed to consider himself more of a president of Red America than the United States of America.
The president has repeatedly attacked states led by democratic governors and cities with democratic mayors, especially during the pandemic and when the United States was marked by large and sometimes violent demonstrations and riots in connection with the George Floyd case.
– The populist right sees the big cities of California and Oregon as occupied by the homeless, drug addicts, illegal immigrants and freedmen. Trump’s friend Tucker Carlson talks about this on Fox News night after night, Mjelde continues, noting that Carlson is a top external adviser to Trump.
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To Illinois
The Twitter messages about California and New York came within a minute of each other, and then it was only two minutes before a new message about Illinois arrived:
– Illinois has nowhere to go. Sad, isn’t it? Vote for Trump, writes Trump.
– Chicago in Illinois fits well with Trump’s rhetoric of crisis and collapse. Chicago has a notorious problem of gang violence with high murder rates, and has had it for years. Reports of decline and collapse are typical of right-wing populists throughout the West, says Mjelde.
California and New York are considered democratic strongholds. In 2016, Trump received just 31.5 percent of the vote in California, and just 36.5 percent of the vote in his home state of New York.
Illinois has also voted blue since the 1990s, and as of October 2, challenger Joe Biden was far ahead of Trump in the state, at about 60 percent to about 38 percent in the polls, according to FiveThirtyEight. .
