President Trump
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Trump questioned polls showing him behind Biden, gutting his Democratic opponent as “not competent to be president” and controlled by the party’s “radical” progressive wing.
He also complained about his inability to hold demonstrations in some areas of the country due to the coronavirus, accusing “Democrat-controlled states” of not allowing him to do so.
Trump’s appearance on “Fox News Sunday,” his first interview on the Sunday morning show in more than a year, comes less than four months after the election, as polls show the president in a difficult race. up against your competitor. A recent poll found that 6 out of 10 voters disapprove of Trump’s handling of the new coronavirus, which has infected more than 3.7 million in the United States and has claimed more than 140,000 American lives, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The president described recent spikes in coronavirus cases as “burning embers” or “flames” and insisted that the explosion cases in Florida would be “under control.” He also attributed the recent increase in cases (the United States broke the daily record of more than 77,000 new cases on Friday) to an increase in testing, a claim that health experts have widely disputed.
Trump also described Dr. Anthony Fauci
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“We will put out the flames. And we will extinguish in some cases simply by burning embers. We also have burning coals. We have embers and we have flames. Florida became more like a flame, but it will be under control, “Trump told Wallace.
When Wallace pressed Trump over criticism of the lack of a national plan to address the coronavirus, Trump said he takes responsibility for “everything” before criticizing the responses of some of the governors.
“Look, I always take responsibility for everything because ultimately it is also my job. I have to put everyone online. Some governors have done well, some governors have done poorly. They are supposed to have supplies that they did not have. I gave them all, “said Trump.
When asked about the increase in cases in the country, Trump said that many of those who contract the virus are young and would heal quickly.
“They have a cold and we leave it as proof. … I guess it’s like 99.7 percent, people will get better and in many cases they will get better very quickly, “Trump said.
“The cases are over, many of those cases should not even be cases. The cases are over because we have the best evidence in the world and we have most of the evidence. “
The appearance on “Fox News Sunday” was the president’s first appearance on a Sunday morning show since June 2019 and his first interview on the Wallace show since November 2018.
It was full of contentious exchanges. At one point, Wallace challenged Trump when the president claimed that Biden had called for the police to be removed, an exchange that prompted the president to demand that his aides brandish a copy of the recommendations set by the “unity task force. “established by Biden and Sen. Bernie Sanders
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“Let’s go. Get me the letter, please,” Trump said, pointing to an offscreen assistant. Later, the president flipped through the document, disagreeing with immigration policy proposals, but did not reach a section that called to dismiss the police, to which Biden explicitly said he is opposed, Wallace said the White House never presented evidence of the president’s claim.
Trump also projected optimism about his reelection prospects despite recent national and state battlefield polls showing him losing to Biden. Faced with a new Fox News poll showing him behind Biden nationwide by 8 points, Trump dismissed the poll as “bogus.”
“I am not losing, because those are false surveys. They were false in 2016 and now they are even more false ”, insisted the president. “I have other surveys that put me in the lead, and we have surveys where I lead. I have a poll that we are leading in every decisive state. “
Trump went on to criticize Biden as “not competent” to serve as commander-in-chief and challenged him to take a cognitive test. He argued that he has outperformed Biden in the economy.
“I built the largest economy in history, now I am doing it again,” Trump said, expressing confidence in the economic recovery amid the coronavirus, which resulted in millions of job losses due to blockades meant to slow its spread.
“I think the economy is expanding and growing wonderfully,” Trump said later, doubting that the state of the economy was a problem for him on Election Day. “Now Democrats want to keep it closed as long as possible because they think that’s good for the election.”
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