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WILMINGTON: Democrat Joe Biden insisted on Wednesday (Oct. 28) that he will address the coronavirus from day 1 if elected president, but warned that there is no magical “change” to end the pandemic, as Donald Trump campaigned across the United States apparently unfazed by the dangers of COVID-19.
Less than a week before decision day, Biden cast his presidential vote in his home state of Delaware and met with health experts, while fine-tuning his pandemic response plan, seeking to assure voters that he would use science to fight contagion.
“Even if I win, it will take a lot of work to end this pandemic,” the former vice president said in Wilmington.
“I am not making a false promise that I can end this pandemic with the flip of a switch,” he added. “But what I can promise you is this: We will start Day 1 by doing the right thing. We will let science guide our decisions.”
The 77-year-old Biden continues to campaign cautiously before next Tuesday, holding low-key events with small socially estranged crowds that look nothing like the traditional scene in the final days of a White House race.
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On Saturday, Biden will get a bit of star power when he is joined on the stump in Michigan by Barack Obama, who he served as vice president. It will be their first joint in-person appearance of the 2020 race, though Obama has been delivering strategically timed broadsides to Trump throughout.
Trump, by contrast, is ending his campaign in an extreme test of endurance, with final pitches to voters in both swing states and also claiming he won in 2016 but now has to defend.
After gathering supporters in three states on Tuesday, Trump, 74, spent the night in a room, Nevada, and then flew to Arizona for two more demonstrations.
On an airport runway in Bullhead City, Trump almost ignored the COVID-19 crisis and many supporters did not bother to wear masks as they cheered his defiant insistence on a landslide victory on November 3, despite polls pointing to great chances of defeat.
“It’s going to be a big red wave,” he exclaimed, referring to the Republican color.
“We love you! We love you!” yelled the enthusiastic crowd.
UNDER THE SHADOW OF COVID-19
The pandemic has disrupted every aspect of American life and overshadowed the elections, and polls show it could well be the president’s undoing as cases hit record highs in the US.
With many Americans fearful of the risk of voting in crowded polling stations, a remarkable 74.7 million people have already cast their votes.
About 57.4 percent of Americans disapprove of Trump’s response to the coronavirus, while 39.8 percent approve of it, according to a survey average compiled by tracker FiveThirtyEight.com.
US President Donald Trump speaks during a campaign rally on October 28, 2020 in Bullhead City, Arizona. (Photo: Isaac Brekken / Getty Images / AFP)
By contrast, an average from RealClearPolitics shows 50 percent approve of Trump’s handling of the economy, while 47.8 percent disapprove.
As polls show Biden led in the past week, the 77-year-old has declared himself electoral offensive as he seeks to expand his path to victory state by state.
On Tuesday, Biden visited Georgia, traditionally Republican territory, and said he would travel to Florida, Wisconsin and Michigan in the final days of the race.
They are all states that Trump won in 2016 but are up for grabs this year. Trump’s very different approach was illustrated by his campaign Tuesday in Nebraska, a sparsely populated state with marginal influence in the election.
‘NORMAL’ AT THE END OF 2021
Trump has repeatedly emphasized that the United States is “turning around” the pandemic, but the figures do not confirm this: More than 227,000 Americans have died and daily case averages have risen.
“All they talk about is Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid, Covid,” Trump said at his Omaha rally. “It’s amazing. Excuse me. I’m here! Right?”
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But his own chief infectious disease specialist, Anthony Fauci, offered a warning Wednesday.
Even if a COVID-19 vaccine goes live this year, “it will be easy by the end of 2021, and maybe even until next year, before we start to get some normality,” he told a panel at the University of Melbourne.
Biden criticized the president, calling his administration’s response to the pandemic “an insult to all people suffering from COVID-19 and to all families who have lost a loved one.”
With COVID-19 cases on the rise in the United States and Europe and with no agreement yet on a new pandemic US bailout package in Congress, the Dow Jones plunged 3 percent early in the morning on Wednesday. late, his fourth straight losing session.
Meanwhile, the White House said it was closely monitoring the situation in Philadelphia, where a second consecutive night of rioting and looting has put the city on the edge after a fatal police shooting of a black man, the latest to provoke anger in the United States. United States.
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