Tucson, Ariz. (AP) – Outraged President Donald Trump Dr. Anthony is swinging against Fawcett, with the press and polls showing that Democrats are behind Biden in major war-torn states in a disappointing closing message two weeks before election day..
On the third day of the start of the Western campaign, Trump faced intense pressure to turn his campaign around, hoping for the kind of last-minute bounce from the last four minutes that led to his victory four years earlier. But his inconsistent message, further escalation of coronavirus cases, and his attacks on experts such as Fickey could undermine his ultimate efforts to appeal to voters outside of his most loyal base.
“I’m not afraid,” Trump told reporters Monday before heading to Tucson, Arizona, for his fifth rally in three days. “I think I’m getting angry. I run happy, and I am very satisfied, because I have done a great job. ‘
Trump’s aggressive journey comes at a time when he is playing defense in the states he won four years ago, although the Republican president has insisted he is confident of running a timetable despite the epidemic..
“We’re going to win,” he told campaign staff at a morning conference call in Las Vegas. He admitted that he “wouldn’t have told you two or three weeks ago,” referring to the days when he was hospitalized in Covid-19. But he said he felt better now at any stage of 2016. “We are in the best shape so far,” he said.
Trump has also denounced his government’s own scientific experts, trying to dampen the morale of his staff amid growing private concerns that time is running out to rebuild lost grounds, yet has caused even more deaths from his epidemic management. 220,000 people in the United States, Remains a central issue for voters.
Trump said of the government’s top infectious disease specialist, “People are fed up with hearing folly and all these stupid people. “Every time he goes on television, there is always a bomb. But if you fire it there is a big bomb. But Fawcett is a disaster. ”
At a rally in Prescott, Arizona, Trump fired Biden, promising to seek the advice of scientific experts, saying his rival “wants to hear from Dr. Fawcett.”
Doctors are both respected and popular, and Trump’s rejection of scientific advice on the epidemic has already been widely condemned.
At his rally, Trump also spearheaded his attacks on the news media, using NBC’s Christine Welker, a mediator in the next presidential debate, as well as CNN to aggressively cover the epidemic, which is now infecting thousands of Americans every day.
In an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes,” aired Sunday, Fawcett said he was not surprised that Trump was infected with the virus and then did a series of big shows with a few big facial inks.
“I was worried he was going to get sick when I saw him in a completely unpredictable situation of the crowd, no separation between people, and almost no one wearing a mask,” the FCC said of the president.
Biden was away from the campaign trail on Monday, but his campaign was praised by Fawcett and criticized by Trump as “careless and negligent leadership” that “threatens to endanger more lives.”
“Trump’s final message in the final days of the 2020 race is to publicly ridicule id diden for believing in science, and for leading public health official on Covid-19, Dr. Calling Fawcett a ‘disaster’ and the stupidity of other public health officials, “the campaign said.
The alleged confidence in Monday’s victory was in stark contrast to some of Trump’s other public comments in recent days, reflecting the possibility he may lose.
“Can you imagine if you could lose my whole life? What am I going to do? “He asked a crowd at a rally in Macon, Georgia last week.” I don’t feel so good. Maybe I’ll have to leave the country. I don’t know. “
Biden, meanwhile, was in Delaware for several days of preparation ahead of Thursday’s final presidential debate. Kamala Harris, her running mate from California, returned to Washington several days later after a positive test for coronavirus by a close adviser.
Late Monday, the non-partisan commission on presidential debates announced that Trump and Biden would cut off each of their microphones in Thursday’s debate, while his rival answers every two minutes of each of his six debate topics.
The rule has changed three weeks after the chaotic opening faceoff By Trump – between two presidential contenders featuring repeated interruptions. The mute button will not appear in the open discussion part of the discussion, but interruptions made by both candidates will count in their time.
The commission has faced pressure from the Trump campaign not to change the rules, while Biden’s team had hoped for a more orderly discussion. In a statement, the commission said, “It has decided that it is appropriate to take steps to agree on the rules and follow up on those who are unfit to change the rules.”
Trump’s campaign said he would participate in the debate despite his concerns about the new rule.
“I think that’s very unfair,” Trump told reporters sitting on Air Force One as he returned from Arizona. “I’ll participate, but it’s very inappropriate that they changed subjects and it’s so inappropriate that, again, we have an anchor who is completely biased.”
In addition to the public vote signaling Biden’s edge, the former vice president has another significant advantage: money.
In the last four months, Biden has amassed more than 1 1 billion, significantly absorbing Trump’s once-overwhelming cash advantage.
The announcement makes it clear where Biden and his Democratic allies are moving to spend twice as much as Trump and Republicans in the final days of the race, according to data from ad tracking company Kantar / CMAG.
Bill Stepan, manager of the Trump campaign, who insisted that Trump has the advantage of targeting campaign personnel and data.
Although Trump has withdrawn from advertising in the Midwestern states that won his 2016 victory, he has invested heavily elsewhere, including in North Carolina, where he is in the process of spending slightly ahead of Biden.
Concerns about the potential damage to Biden, which has been spreading in the open in recent days, have been simmering behind the scenes in the Trump campaign. Trump himself has changed the idea between disbelief and anger that he could lose a candidate he considers washed and incapacitated, according to the three campaigns and White House officials have no right to speak in private about private conversations.
Trump has directed anger at press coverage, but also retaliated against his chief of staff, Mark Meadows, whom he blames for his hospitalization for the virus and Covid-19 relief negotiations.
According to officials, he has asked some of his closest advisers if there was a need to shake up the campaign. The president was encouraged to stop any move closer to election day.
Aides, meanwhile, have begun to privately wonder if Trump’s campaign rallies, which have helped determine American politics for the past five years, were in their final days.
In recent weeks, meanwhile, some White House staff offices have also tried to turn Fiso into support people who have never flown on Air Force One or so rarely so they can do so before election day.
___ Miller reported from Washington. Jonathan Lemire in Wilmington, Delaware, New York, and Brian Slodisco in Washington, Associated Press, contributed to this report.
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