SANFORD – President Donald Trump chose his first crusade rally since signing the COVID-19 contract to make a stopover in central Florida this week, and it may not be the last.
Trump planned similar occasions in Des Moines, Iowa, Wednesday in Greenville, North Carolina, thursday, and back in Florida, in Ocala, Friday. His rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, made statements Wednesday at Pembroke Pines and also scheduled to appear on a voter engagement occasion at Miramar.
With 29 election votes and a narrow record of elections across the state, Florida remains a big prize, so expect to see any of the applicants by November 3.
“Traditionally, we are the largest transitional state,” said Aubrey Jewett, professor of political science at the University of Central Florida. “I’m a little nuanced because in the last 3 or 4 weeks, some polls take Texas into consideration to be a competitive state. . . I’ll do it when it happens. “
At Orlando Sanford International Airport for Monday’s rally, Trump called the pandemic a success.
With 215,000 Americans counting dead after contracting coronavirus, and polls appear that most Americans disapprove of the president’s technique to fight the virus, Trump argued that its manipulation, a claim through many epidemiologists and doctors, would have been much worse.
“Ultimately, we store millions of lives,” Trump said, and the 74-year-old president called his recent fight against the virus a triumph, which became imaginable through his youth and health care.
“I’ve been there. Now they say I’m immune. So powerful.
“Fortunately, I’m not an older person,” he said. I’m very young and I’m in the best shape. “
After speaking for an hour to a crowd of several thousand people at Orlando Sanford International Airport, Trump danced off the level with Village People’s song “Macho Man. “
It is obligatory to feel intelligent for the president, an herbal artist, to recover in front of a giant crowd. His rallies were the hallmark of his presidency, as his projection always secure.
Trump talked about winning Florida, as he did in 2016 through 1. 2 issues about Hillary Clinton.
“Everything I hear, we earn a lot. Then you turn on the fake news and say, “Polls are tied in Florida. “I don’t get it,” Trump said.
Specifically, maximum surveys in Florida have Biden at the forefront, margins vary enough to generate a healthy dose of skepticism, UCF Jewett said.
“There’s no explanation for why thinking (the polls) are worse than last time, and there’s no explanation as to why they think they’re better,” Jewett said. “We saw three or four state polls the last time they underestimated the president’s help because they did. not have a smart random pattern. That’s the query this time: Do surveys, as they should be, capture a smart random pattern from which they will appear?”
Trump and his supporters were emboldened by the 2016 polls that put Hillary Clinton in Florida and other key states.
“We’re earning a lot more now than we did 4 years ago,” he said, despite the fact that recent polls also allow Biden to outper charge other key states: Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.
Trump and his supporters have told the story of a guy who has conquered a deadly disease and who, against all odds, will have another term.
Webster Barnaby, a 27th District candidate at the Florida House of Deltona, made the invocation and implemented a language that sounds biblical to Trump.
“I thank God that Donald Trump was resurrected and gave him an extension of life,” Barnaby said.
Then Barnaby prayed, “Then, Father, tonight we thank you for healing our land. You have removed the scourge from the crown in Jesus’ call. Tonight you’ll see a strong guy, Donald J. Trump, a healed guy. “
Much of Sanford’s crowd sat or stood side-by-side, social estating and many facial toppings.
The exhibition shows a number of doctors, in addition to dr. Candice Jones, a pediatrician in Orlando for 14 years, who joined a panel of speakers on a Biden for President occasion before the rally.
“Science and fitness officials have told us what to do to mitigate the spread of this virus, which includes physically powerful testing and proven protective measures, such as staying away from crowds and dressing in a mask,” Jones said. “This president has continued to undermine these credible messages and spread incorrect information and mistrust.
Meanwhile, Biden visited a network at Pembroke Pines on Tuesday, where participants were given an N-95 mask and invited to stand in socially remote circles. Only a few non-journalists were present.
Mitchell Berger, 64, of Fort Lauderdale, said Biden had made progress among the elderly. He said Biden had an herbal affinity with the elderly and that Trump’s mismanagement of coronavirus had “developed it with steroids. “
But at his rally, Trump, who mocked Biden for dressing up in a mask and avoiding giant crowds, argued that the cure may be worse than the problem.
“When you’re president, you can’t lock yourself in the basement and say, “I don’t care about the world. “You have to go out and it’s risky, but you have to get out,” Trump said.
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The president said he saw an end in sight for COVID-19 with a vaccine and great things to come in 2021: he is re-elected.
“With Operation Warp Speed, we’re on our way to getting 100,000,000 doses (of vaccines) through the end of the year. And they’ll turn the military in, and they’re all in a position to do it,” Trump said.
He promised a “quick recovery like never believed” in the third quarter.
And in Florida, Trump said the tourism and hospitality industries would triumph at “heights like never before. “
He compared his technique to that of Biden, who said he was open to long-term blockades if necessary.
“Biden will end our recovery, delay the vaccine, prolong the pandemic, and wipe out Florida’s economy with a draconian, non-seristic blockade,” Trump said.
Meanwhile, the Chair stated that it sought to see the remedy it received, adding remdesivir, an experimental drug that reduced the number of days of hospitalization from 15 to 10.
Trump said, “I told my people,” we’re going to take everything I’ve been given and distribute it to the hospitals. “
Warm-ups included Gov. Ron DeSantis, U. S. Rep. Michael Waltz and Matt Gaetz, and Fox News ex Kimberly Guilfoyle, Donald Trump Jr. ‘s girlfriend.
Gaetz noted that most of the media were dressed in masks, where Trump’s crowd largely unmasked. Gaetz said he had a media election night request: “Take off your mask because we need to see his face” when Trump wins.
Jason Williams, who attended the rally, said Trump’s strong stance against abortion is the main attraction for him.
Do I love everything Pence does?No, ” said Williams. ” But at the end of the day, they continued to be pro-life, so that’s where I am for myself. “
Williams said the president had a margin of about 15 to 1 in symptoms in his Deltona neighborhood.
But Jewett points out that just as the polls don’t give a complete picture of what happens on Election Day, he warns that they oppose the reading of anecdotal evidence such as enthusiasm in rallies or road signs.
“There is enthusiasm for Trump, but he also encourages Array . . . a strong aversion among voters,” Jewett said.