The announcement that President Trump and the first Melania Trump tested positive for coronavirus puts Joe Biden in a precarious political position.
Trump tweeted the early diagnosis on Friday morning, paving the way for the Democratic nominee’s reaction amid an upside-down run in the White House already shaken by the virus that has killed more than 200,000 people in the United States, sparked a recession and stopped well. in person Campaign for several months.
Biden, a former vice president and senator from Delaware for 36 years, can remind the electorate that he has taken the coronavirus seriously, to the point of staying at his home in Delaware for the most part of the campaign. Biden also wore a mask in public for months. unlike Trump’s intermittent quotes with face covers.
Biden also delivered several violent speeches about the Trump administration’s reaction to the coronavirus and promised a more national reaction to the pandemic, compared to the Trump administration’s confidence in governors to fight it in their states, and Biden pledged to remain one of the most sensitive. advisers, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, with whom Trump management officials have clashed.
But a reaction I told them about Biden and his supporters would be counterproductive, provoking sympathy for his rival and his wife in the White House.
A quick resolution for Biden is to suspend his campaign. If Biden continues to push for votes, chances are his schedule will be replaced to focus exclusively on taming the coronavirus. Biden would probably reject open political rhetoric, focusing on pandemic science.
On Friday, a prominent Critic of Trump advised Biden to continue the offensive opposed to Trump, with a COVID-19.
“Trump has not protected himself against the virus. He wasn’t dressed in a mask. How do you intend to protect the rest of us?” tweeted Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress. a liberal think tank.
COVID-19’s diagnosis for the president and the first girl virtually ensures that the pandemic remains in the midst of much of the presidential campaign, the couple being quarantined for 14 days, which raised doubts about Trump’s face-to-face involvement in the presidential debate scheduled for October 15.