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Donald Trump said he hopes to resume the campaign on Saturday after receiving the green light from his doctor, even as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi prepares to reveal plans to investigate the president’s ability to govern after contracting Covid- 19.
With only 26 days left until the Nov. 3 election, Washington’s top Democrat took the extraordinary step of proposing a commission to investigate Trump’s suitability for the job, and whether he needs to be removed under the 25th Amendment to the Constitution, that she will present on a bill on Friday.
The move came after Trump spent the day ranting against critics and caused a mix-up in the schedule for debates with Democrat Joe Biden.
With tensions rising over the president’s diagnosis and questions about his trial, Trump said in an interview with Fox News Thursday night that he wants to hold a campaign rally on Saturday.
“I think I’ll try to do a rally on Saturday night if we have enough time to put it together,” he said during an interview with Sean Hannity, adding that “it’s probably in Florida.”
Trump said he could hold another rally the next day in Pennsylvania.
Hours earlier, Trump’s doctor gave him the green light to resume public activities this weekend.
“Saturday will be the 10th since Thursday’s diagnosis, and based on the track record of advanced diagnostics the team has been conducting, I fully anticipate the president’s safe return to public involvement at that time,” Conley said in a release.
After refraining from campaigning, Trump raged on Fox Business television on Thursday, insulting Biden’s running mate Kamala Harris as a “monster”, calling illegal immigrants “rapists” and urging that they be prosecute Biden and former President Barack Obama.
And in comments that caught the attention of Pelosi, Trump, 74, joked that he beat Covid because “I am a perfect physical specimen and I am extremely young.”
Pelosi warned that Trump is suffering a “dissociation from reality (which) would be funny if it weren’t so deadly.”
House Democrat James Clyburn warned on CNN that Trump was exhibiting “very erratic behavior” that has raised public concern. When they questioned the president’s claim that he was recovering quickly from Covid-19 and Pelosi announced her upcoming investigation, Trump responded on Twitter.
“Crazy Nancy is the one who should be under observation,” he wrote. “They don’t call her crazy for nothing!”
Trump’s rejection of next week’s debate because organizers decided to go virtual because of his fight with Covid-19 upended the debate schedule, usually a series of three that candidates arrange well in advance.
After going back and forth between the Trump campaign and Biden, it seemed likely that only two debates would take place in total, the next one being on October 22 and the one scheduled for Miami on October 15 now canceled.
With Biden rising in opinion polls and able to travel, the veteran Democrat visited Arizona on Thursday, where he and Harris launched a campaign bus tour, these are anxious times for Trump.
He is still recovering from his three-night hospital stay, while the White House has become a viral hotspot, with dozens of people close to Trump testing positive.
Trump’s decision to boycott next week’s debate, which would have been in town hall format with members of the audience asking questions, will mean missing a unique opportunity to try to beat Biden in a direct televised confrontation.
He accused the organizers of trying to “protect” Biden after their first angry debate in Cleveland on September 29. Campaign manager Bill Stepien called the organizers “pathetic” and announced that a rally would be held instead.
In the Biden campaign, spokeswoman Kate Bedingfield accused Trump of not wanting to “face questions from voters about his failures in Covid and the economy.”
Both sides agreed that the next and probably last debate, on October 22 in Nashville, should be conducted in city hall style.
The Trump campaign called for a third debate five days before the election, but Biden’s side rejected it, saying that “Trump’s erratic behavior does not allow him to rewrite the calendar.”
While Trump said he beat Biden “easily” in his first debate, opinion polls showed the president in an uneven defeat.
Currently, Biden is predicted to defeat Trump in several vital decisive states, even threatening him in Republican strongholds like Texas.
And Trump’s personal fight with Covid-19 has brought attention back to an issue where polls find most voters view as a failure.
The pandemic, which has claimed 212,000 American lives, has made it nearly impossible for Trump to shift the campaign narrative to what he sees as more favorable territory: the economy, which was fine before the coronavirus hit earlier this year. year.
On Wednesday, Harris debated with Vice President Mike Pence and spent much of his time criticizing Trump for his response to the pandemic, calling it “the greatest failure of any presidential administration in the history of our country.”
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