With 25 days before the election, the campaign was shaken again by the pandemic on Friday, with the next presidential debate canceled. Crowd enthusiast, Donald Trump, 74, initially hoped to hold a meeting on Saturday in Florida, a key state to clinch victory on November 3.
Eager to find his supporters despite persistent doubts about his health, Donald Trump will resume the campaign interrupted by his Covid-19 infection on Saturday at the White House, before a meeting on Monday in Florida. “Good luck,” quipped his Democratic rival Joe Biden, ahead of him in the polls. "If it were me, I would not go unless I have a mask and respect the distances" as a precaution against the virus, continued the 77-year-old candidate, who strictly respects barrier gestures. What has earned him in the past the mockery of the Republican. 25 days before the election, the campaign was shaken again on Friday by the pandemic, with the cancellation of the next presidential debate. Crowd enthusiast, Donald Trump, 74, initially hoped to hold a meeting on Saturday in Florida, a key state to clinch victory on November 3. Ultimately, he will host this first public event since his diagnosis at the White House, despite the growing number of coronavirus cases among his employees and criticism of the gender mix of using this iconic official building for a rally. partisan. According to a senior American official, he will speak on the subject of "law and order", one of his slogans, from the balcony of the Presidency, to a crowd gathered on the lawn below. It is precisely a rally at the White House, two weeks ago, to announce the appointment of a conservative judge to the Supreme Court, who has been pointed out as responsible for many contaminations detected since. A "super propagator" rally, one of the Trump administration's main experts on the coronavirus, Anthony Fauci, ruled on Friday. This time, all guests will have to wear their masks, after having their temperature taken, according to a source close to the organization who did not mention screening. The president-candidate will then travel to Sanford, Florida on Monday for his first meeting since the announcement of his positive Covid-19 test a week ago. However, a crucial question remained unanswered on Friday: Donald Trump, who “thinks” is no longer contagious, has he tested negative? The White House doctor, Sean Conley, whose elusive communication is under fire from critics, only said Thursday that he expected "that the president can resume his public activities" Saturday "without risk". But he did not mention a negative test. In the meantime, still confined, the billionaire showed his endurance with a two-hour radio marathon, in the form of an exchange on the phone with Rush Limbaugh, a figure in the conservative sphere, who has never ceased to praise his record. "We have a cure" to cure the coronavirus, he hammered about the experimental treatment that was administered to him, promising once again to distribute it for free. "I was not very well", but "these drugs are so good, they just got rid of the virus".
The message is clear: the disease page has been turned. His voice was clearer than on Thursday evening, when, hoarse, the candidate was interrupted several times by coughing during a telephone interview on Fox News. Friday evening, he must continue with his first interview filmed since the announcement of his positive test, on the same conservative channel, which promised a "medical evaluation" by a doctor-columnist. In contrast, the upcoming Trump-Biden televised debate on October 15 was canceled on Friday. The president refused that it be virtual, as the organizers had decided as a health precaution. Voters this time had to ask the candidates questions. Donald Trump "obviously does not have the courage to answer for his record" to the Americans, reacted a spokesperson for Joe Biden, Andrew Bates. The Trump team accused the organizers of wanting to "protect" the Democrat by avoiding a direct confrontation. And challenged him to accept a televised "one on one" duel, "without the interference" of the organizers. Joe Biden, who is now nearly ten points ahead in national polls and has also consolidated his advantage in voting intentions at the level of the decisive states for the election, continues his campaign at his own pace. He visited Nevada on Friday. His big message: Donald Trump has failed in the management of the pandemic which has killed more than 212,000 people in the United States, by far the most bereaved country in the world. "His irresponsible personal conduct since his diagnosis, the destabilizing effect that this has on our government, is unacceptable," he said.during a speech in Las Vegas. On the right, some tenors are now openly alarmed by the evolution of the campaign. "If on election day, people are angry", "we could lose the White House, and both houses of Congress "It could be a bloodbath on the scale of that of Watergate", warned Republican Senator Ted Cruz.