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MIAMI GARDENS, FLORIDA, OCTOBER 6: Stacks of campaign flyers are seen on a table before people walk through a neighborhood encouraging people to vote for Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, who is running against President Donald Trump on October 6, 2020 in Miami Gardens, Florida. Joe Raedle / Getty Images / AFP
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Tuesday challenged the COVID-19 virus, disastrous opinion polls and new economic turmoil in a stormy return from hospitalization, while rising challenger Joe Biden called on Americans to unite against the ” forces of darkness “.
There have been a few tougher days for Trump since he came to power after his surprising victory in the 2016 election.
Still being treated with a powerful cocktail of coronavirus drugs after three nights in the hospital, he was struggling to get his re-election campaign back on track before Election Day on November 3, just four weeks away.
The latest polls predict a great victory for Biden. The new CNN poll gave the Democrat a national advantage of 57 percent to 41 percent among likely voters, with female voters going 66 to 32 percent in their favor.
Biden’s breakthrough comes as Trump has been forced to abandon the election campaign after falling ill last Friday from the virus that has already killed some 210,000 Americans.
With what White House doctors describe as his quick recovery, Trump is doubling down on his controversial position that he takes Covid-19 too seriously, and paints himself as a fighter who stood up to the virus and won easily. .
After telling Americans in a speech from the White House balcony on Monday that they should stop fearing COVID-19 and “don’t let it take over,” he attacked the media Tuesday for not paying more attention to what he said they were his many hits. .
“The fake news outlets refuse to discuss how well the economy and the stock market are doing, including the JOBS under the Trump administration. Soon we will be on TERRITORY RECORD, ”he tweeted.
“All they want to discuss is COVID 19, where they won’t say it, but we also beat the Democrats all day!”
But Trump is in trouble on almost every front and what used to be his strongest card, the economy, is not helping him either.
The huge shock caused by this year’s coronavirus shutdown has yet to fade, and there was further confusion on Tuesday when Trump halted negotiations in Congress on another stimulus package to save struggling companies.
Trump accused Democrats of seeking “to bail out badly run and high crime Democratic states” and said negotiations could start again only after the election, “after I win.”
The Republican’s tough tactics drew a furious response from Biden, who said Trump “turned his back” on Americans struggling because of the crisis.
The battlefield calls for unity
Biden also stuck to his hitherto successful strategy of trying to appeal to a broad-based longing for calm, with his visit to the Gettysburg Civil War battlefield to discuss how to save “the soul of America.”
“The forces of darkness, the forces of division, the forces of yesterday are pulling us apart, holding us, and holding us,” Biden said in the holy grounds of Pennsylvania where Abraham Lincoln’s Union forces won a decisive victory over Confederate troops. in 1863..
“We can end this age of division, we can end hatred and fear. We can be what we are at our best: the United States of America, “he said, with an emphasis on” united. “
Meanwhile, his running mate Kamala Harris will debate with Vice President Mike Pence in Utah on Wednesday with a plexiglass barrier for coronavirus prevention between the two.
Giving Biden another boost on Tuesday, popular former first lady Michelle Obama delivered a 24-minute video speech calling Trump a “racist” and urging people to vote for Biden “as if their lives depended on it. “.
Spread of the White House Covid
Trump is working overtime to persuade voters that he has regained full strength despite the hospitalization.
“FEEL GOOD!” he tweeted, also insisting that he is “waiting” for a second scheduled debate against Biden in Miami on October 15.
And in a medical bulletin, the presidential doctor said that Trump “does not report any symptoms” and “is still very well.”
However, indicating the breadth of the coronavirus crisis that overshadows Trump politically and now personally, a viral outbreak continued to sweep through his inner circle.
In the latest incident, the chairman of the joint staff and Trump’s top military adviser, Gen. Mark Milley, went into quarantine after coming into contact with an infected Coast Guard officer, a Pentagon source said.
It had been speculated, even among some Republicans, that Trump might leave the hospital punished or at least with a new tone of empathy.
But on Twitter he went back to one of his older lines of argument used to downplay the severity of the pandemic, saying it was comparable to ordinary flu and “we have learned to live with it.”
Twitter concealed the tweet, saying it broke the platform’s rules on “spreading misleading and potentially harmful information.”
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