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MIAMI FLORIDA. The main job of a president should be to protect his own people from a life-threatening illness.
Instead, President Donald Trump is gathering thousands of people at rallies as the spread of the infection in these states breaks new records.
With just over two weeks to go by Election Day, the president is on a frenzy. Not least considering that he recently recovered from covid-19. He pulls from one state to another in a desperate attempt to change course. It is not uncommon for him to hold two or three election meetings a day.
In the last few days he has been to Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, Michigan and Wisconsin. All the states that you won in 2016 and that you need to win again to be re-elected.
Instead, nearly all opinion polls indicate that Biden leads in most key states. In some cases so much that it is above the statistical error margin.
It seems that many outside the most loyal group have begun to tire of Trump’s performance. Four years ago it was new and very entertaining. I haven’t been to many political meetings where I’ve gotten as much out of my mouth as Trump.
But it’s like a TV series that finally loses its freshness and where a lot of the jokes feel like tired reruns.
Shout “lock her up” (lock her up) if Hillary Clinton worked. But when Trump now tries the same tactic with Joe Biden, he doesn’t hold up.
Yet Trump still gathers thousands of supporters in hangars and arenas. No social distancing is practiced. The absolute majority of the audience does not wear protective masks, which is recommended by the US Infection Control Agency.
Photo: Alex Brandon / TT
Donald Trump.
New field hospital
The president is on tour when the United States finds itself in a situation where ten states show the greatest spread of infection since the pandemic began.
In one of them, Wisconsin, they began the other day to build a field hospital with space for 500 people because they fear that soon the hospital beds will not be enough.
Wisconsin now reports 4,000 new infections per day. Several experts here in the United States express grave concern that Trump’s campaign rallies will help further increase the spread of the infection and thereby contribute to more Americans ending up in hospitals and dying from COVID-19.
However, Trump refuses to listen to criticism. In many ways, it is inconceivable.
When I have been traveling around Florida in recent days and speaking with ordinary Americans, there is no question that the issue that worries them most is the president’s handling of the pandemic. Aside from some really loyal Trump supporters, I haven’t met a single person who thinks the president has been good. With 220,000 deaths, the United States accounts for nearly a quarter of all deaths in the world.
But instead of taking the pandemic more seriously and trying to stop the infection, the president himself is spreading super-spreaders by insisting on holding his large electoral rallies. It can strengthen your popularity with true core voters who think you are just getting on with a normal life and ignoring the pandemic. But that hardly gives him new voices among all Americans who fear contracting the life-threatening disease themselves.
Photo: Carolyn Kaster / TT
Joe Biden.
Large risk group
The number of older and overweight people at risk is very large in the United States.
Trump’s actions are in stark contrast to those of his opponent Joe Biden. He does not hold electoral meetings with more than 50 people present and he always wears a mask.
In a way, it has to act that way. He doesn’t like to criticize Trump for mass meetings and then break the rules himself. At the same time, it must be frustrating to watch Trump’s massive machine run at full capacity to catch up and stand on the sidelines and watch.
The strange thing is that the tactics seem to work for Biden. His leadership in opinion polls constantly increases, although he is much less visible.
The maxim “Less is more” seems to be the answer in this year’s election campaign.
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