SANFORD, Florida (AP) – Defying the coronavirus like never before by the coronavirus, President Donald Trump on Monday turned his first cross rally since COVID-19’s subscription into an unreserved defense of his pandemic management that killed 215,000 Americans, joking that he healthy enough to plunge into the crowd and give the electorate “a big kiss. “
There was no social estating and dressed in an abnormal mask among the thousands of people who came here to see Trump return to Florida. He lasted an hour, looking to get his conflicted crusade back on track a few weeks before Election Day.
Although he was hospitalized to fight the virus only a week ago, Trump’s message about COVID-19 has not changed since his diagnosis: a dubious assessment that the pandemic is a thing of the past. Hundreds of others in the United States continue to die from the virus every day.
“Under my leadership, we are offering a vaccine and an immediate recovery like no one can believe,” Trump insisted. “If you look at our upward path, no country in the world has recovered as we have recovered. “
His voice would probably have been a little squeaky, but if not, Trump was, well, Trump.
Noisy and belligerent, he thanked the public for his clever wishes and stated that he no longer spread as he embarked on one last frantic component of the campaign.
Trump insisted that after receiving experimental drugs and other VIP treatments, he was smart and satisfied that he no longer had to worry about the infection because he is now “immune. “
“I feel so powerful,” Trump said, showing no apparent symptoms of persistent infection. “I’ll stop by to get into this hearing. I’ll stop by, kiss everyone at this hearing. boys and women . . . Everybody. I’m just passing by to give you a big kiss. “
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s leading infectious disease expert, told CNN Monday that those recovering from COVID-19 will likely be immunized for a limited time, however, there are emerging cases of other people reinfected weeks or months later.
Despite Trump’s war with a deadly illness, it draws attention to how little had changed, in addition to threats to members of the public, the demonstration similar to that of many in the election war opposed to Democrat Joe Biden.
Trump has returned to his many old lines of attack, calling Democrats “committed, disorganized and vindictive,” and highlighting “huge progress” in viral therapeutics. He promised that the third-quarter economy would be “record” and said that if he won in November, “normal life” would resume, while Biden would stop the vaccine and destroy the economy with a “draconian” blockade.
And when he finished, with his new release song, Village People’s “YMCA,” screaming on the speakers, the president did his signature dance, moving his fists a little to the crowd. distance from the audience.
With just a few weeks to go through the election, Trump is looking to correct a cursed deficit in national and state battlefield polls while continuing to spread false data about a virus that has spent months minimizing.
That includes Florida, which is thought of in its chances of re-election. Trump nearly beat his 2016 rival, Democrat Hillary Clinton, in the state with just over 112,000 votes. Some recent polls have advised a tight career in the state, while others have put Democrat Joe Biden at the forefront.
Stressing Florida’s importance, Trump will return to the state on Friday for a rally, this time in Ocala.
Trump’s rally in Sanford was his first prevention in a busy week that will occasionally come in Pennsylvania, Iowa, North Carolina, Georgia and Wisconsin. shook his base and raised alarm among Republicans who fear the White House is about to get lost to Biden.
And it arises amid unanswered questions about the effect that so many trips can have on the 74-year-old president’s fitness so soon. CoVID-19 progression is unpredictable and there can be long-term complications.
After Air Force One took off from joint base Andrews, the president’s doctor released an update on his fitness that Trump had tested negative for the virus, and had done so on several consecutive days. His doctor, Navy Commander Scott Conley, said the evidence. , combined with other data, adding viral load, led him to conclude that Trump did not infect.
For days, the White House had withdrawn from questions about whether Trump had tested negative. Conley said over the weekend that the president met the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention criteria for safely stopping isolation and that, through “currently identified standards,” Trump was no longer thought of. as a transmission threat.
There was no evidence of new fitness precautions, more passengers than the same age aboard Air Force One, adding U. S. intelligence agents. But it’s not the first time And the White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows, were spotted in a mask on board.
Trump’s resolve to return to the electoral roll caused a temporary complaint from Biden and other Democrats.
“President Trump will come to Sanford today without bringing anything yet reckless behavior, divisive rhetoric and incitement to fear,” Biden said in a statement. “But what it doesn’t achieve is equally dangerous: no plan for this virus that has taken the lives of more than 15,000 Florins under array
Trump continued to mock Biden for his efforts to inspire social estating in the events of his crusade, calling the circles that Biden’s crusade uses to delineate the individual as “crazy. “
“He’s been given a lot of bad days ahead,” Trump said at the time.
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Lemire reported from New York. Petersburg, Florida contributed to this report.