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Donald Trump will speak at an event in Florida on Monday when he returns to the election campaign after his coronavirus diagnosis, but his second debate with presidential rival Joe Biden will not continue.
The Presidential Debate Commission (CPD) announced this Thursday that the debate scheduled for October 15 would take place virtually for “the health and safety of all involved.”
However, the CPD said in a statement on Friday: “Subsequently, the campaigns of the two candidates who qualified to participate in the debate made a series of statements about their respective positions on their willingness to participate in a virtual debate on October 15. , and each has now announced alternate plans for that date.
“It is now clear that there will be no debate on October 15, and the CPD will turn its attention to preparations for the final presidential debate scheduled for October 22.”
The final debate will take place at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, “subject to health security considerations.”
Trump’s campaign team confirmed Friday that the president will speak at an event at Orlando Sanford International Airport in Florida on Monday.
The president is also expected to address supporters from a balcony at the White House on Saturday at an event on “law and order,” an official said.
That is despite the continuous coronavirus bud there and two weeks after the Rose Garden event which is now considered a “superpreader”.
Trump’s return to the election campaign will be more aware of the danger of spreading the disease than before his infection.
Supporters of the event in Florida will receive masks that they will be encouraged to wear and access to hand sanitizer, the campaign said, but officials did not disclose whether it would take place in a hangar with the doors open, as it has in the past. , or completely out.
The mystery surrounds whether Trump is still contagious and White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany said medical tests will ensure that when the president returns he will not be able to transmit the virus.
“It won’t be out there if it can transmit the virus,” he said.
The White House had previously said that the president of the United States was eager to return to campaign before the presidential election, and that he would probably be tested COVID-19 again.
With less than a month to go before the November 3 vote, the president of the United States is behind his Democratic rival Joe Biden in the polls.
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Trump, who was diagnosed with coronavirus on October 1 and spent three days in the hospital, told Fox News that he was likely to be tested for the virus later on Friday.
“He wants to talk to the American people and he wants to be there,” McEnany told Fox News.
“Logistically, if it is possible tomorrow, it would be difficult. It would be a campaign decision.”
Trump’s personal physician said the president could safely return to public engagements this weekend.
In a memo, his physician, Sean Conley, said: “Saturday will be the 10th since Thursday’s diagnosis, and based on the team’s track record of advanced diagnostics, I look forward to the president’s safe return to public participation in that moment”.
But aides admitted he was unlikely to hold events in person until at least Monday.
It came when Democrats questioned his suitability for the job.
Senior Democrat Nancy Pelosi has revealed plans for new legislation that would establish a board of experts that could judge whether a president is unfit for office.
Mrs. Pelosi, who as a Speaker of the House of Representatives is second in line to the presidency after Vice President Mike Pence, made the announcement amid questions about Mr trumpyour ability to lead after your COVID-19 diagnosis and treatment.
The bipartisan panel would need the agreement of a vice president and Congress to remove a US commander-in-chief from power.
The measure by Ms. Pelosi and the Democrats in the House was said to be an enactment of the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which affirms the line of succession and was passed in 1967.
Pelosi said the move “was not about President Trump” and that it will “face judgment” from voters in the November election.
She said: “This legislation applies to future presidents, but we are reminded of the need for action for the health of the current president.”
Earlier, he noted that Trump’s “strange tweet” interrupted talks about a new coronavirus aid package (he later tried to reverse course) and said Americans needed to know exactly when they first contracted COVID-19 when others in the White House got infected.
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Later, Trump tweeted: “Crazy Nancy Pelosi is considering Amendment 25 to replace Joe Biden with Kamala Harris. Democrats want that to happen fast because Sleepy Joe is out of line.”
The 25th Amendment states that, if agreed with the vice president, the American leader can be removed from power with the backing of the American cabinet.
It also states that Congress can instruct a body, such as the panel that Ms. Pelosi envisions, to make this decision with the vice president.
The panel that will judge the president’s fitness is expected to have eight medical experts, four nominated by Republicans and four nominated by Democrats, and eight high-ranking statesmen such as former presidents, attorneys general and surgeons general.
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The 16 selected would elect a seventeenth person as president.
The president could challenge an attempt to remove them from office, but this challenge could be reversed if the House and Senate had a two-thirds majority to do so.
Ms Pelosi continued to cast doubt on whether she would trust a UK-approved COVID-19 vaccine or treatment.
She said: ‘I think we have to be very careful about what happens in the UK.
“We have very strict rules in terms of the Food and Drug Administration here about the number of clinical trials, the timing, the number of people and everything else.
“So when the FDA and the Scientific Advisory Committee approve a drug that is safe and effective, then you will have the confidence of the American people to take it.”
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Pelosi added: “My concern is that the UK system for that type of trial is not on par with ours in the US.
“So if Boris Johnson decides that he’s going to approve a drug. And this president agrees to that, that’s a concern I have about any similarity between the two.”
Trump has said he is working to get the coronavirus antibody drugs used to treat his infection quickly approved and shipped to hospitals.
He told right-wing radio host Rush Limbaugh that he might not have recovered without Regeneron.
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