LAS VEGAS (AP) – In response to his own administration’s state regulations and pandemic fitness rules, President Donald Trump held his first indoor rally since June and ruled to a crowd in Nevada, almost unmasked, that the country was last shift “to defeat the virus.
Eager to assign a sense of normalcy to the photographs, Trump absorbed the loud applause inside a warehouse Sunday night. Relatively few others in the crowd wore masks, with one clear exception: those in the direct trump stands, whose photographs would end. on television, they were forced to cover their faces.
It wasn’t since a demonstration in Tulsa, Oklahoma, that blamed an outbreak of coronavirus infections, which amassed followers inside. The president did not initially mention that the pandemic killed about 200,000 Americans and still killed another 1,000 people a day. .
“We are no longer definitive in the country. A closure would destroy the lives and dreams of millions of Americans,” Trump said, before his incendiary nickname for the coronavirus. “We will easily defeat the Chinese virus. “
The rally in Tulsa, which was the first in 3 months after the coronavirus reached the coast of the US. The U. S. , It was a crisis for the campaign, a debacle that featured a sea of empty seats and a build-up of COVID-19 instances, adding its own workforce. A prominent Trump supporter at the demonstration, businessman and former presidential candidate Herman Cain, died of COVID-19 weeks later, it was unclear whether he had contracted the virus in Tulsa.
Recognizing that many supporters were not comfortably assembled in a giant indoor organization, where the virus spreads more easily, Trump’s crusade has moved to smaller outdoor collections, on airplane hangers, but those rallies have gained momentum in recent weeks, with little social esttachment and few masks.
And on Sunday, they returned inland, in a component as a nod to the warmth of the Las Vegas area. Temperature checks were carried out on everyone who entered Henderson’s commercial and, although the masks were encouraged, few used them.
Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak, a Democrat, has limited face-to-face and outdoor rallies to 50 other people since May, a council based on White House reopening guidelines. In a statement just before the rally began, Sisolak said Trump was “taking reckless and self-centered measures that endanger countless lives here in Nevada. “
“To put it bluntly: he didn’t have the courage to make tough decisions,” Sisolak said of Trump’s handling of the virus. “He left that to governors and states, our state As usual, he doesn’t believe the regulations apply to him.
The city of Henderson informed Xtreme Manufacturing sunday that the occasion, as planned, directly violated the governor’s COVID-19 emergency directives and that they would follow sanctions. Trump’s crusade pushed back restrictions, and the president said he would provide them. “if the governor comes after you. “
“If you can sign up for tens of thousands of people protesting on the streets, gambling in a casino, or burning small businesses in riots, you can meet peacefully under the First Amendment to hear the president of the United States,” the campaign said. communications director, says Tim Murtaugh.
At this point, the crusade was not as a selection election between Trump and his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, but as a referendum on the president’s handling of the coronavirus. By a wide margin, Americans disapproved of Trump’s leadership because America has suffered the most. deaths than any other nation.
As a result, the president’s crusade believes he wants to replace the issue and assign the feeling, even though it is clear otherwise, that the pandemic was ending and that a vaccine was on the horizon. Normality, like the White House crowded lawn for the Trump conference speech, is unclear whether the audience felt calmed or frightened.
In an incoherent one-hour speech, Trump reflected on the mandatory criminal conditions for burning a flag, praised the UFC fighters who attended, and gave the impression of backing out-of-court executions of those targeting police officers. And Trump has launched a series of attacks on Biden, calling him a career-weary politician and noting that he is “unfit to be president. “
But, Trump ruminated, as he complained about media coverage: “Maybe he’s going to win because they don’t like me, they don’t like my personality. “
The crowd with a deafening “We love you” canticle.
The demonstration took place the night before Trump traveled to California to get a report on the devastating wildfires in the region and remained largely silent about the fires that killed dozens of other people in Oregon and California.
Early Sunday, Trump was aiming for further advances with Latinos that can prove important in hotly contested states that may be the white house race, selling the economic benefits they made before the coronavirus pandemic.
Although Trump has made many incendiary and derogatory comments about Latinos, his crusade is increasingly convinced that he has won what could help Florida, Arizona and Nevada, his purpose this weekend.
Gaining help from Latinos has been a tricky increase for Trump, whose uncompromising immigration policies and virulent depiction of immigrants have alienated many Hispanics.
In the early days of his 2016 campaign, he said many Mexican immigrants were “rapists. “He received complaints about his lukewarm reaction to a hurricane that devastated Puerto Rico, his policies to separate young people from their families on the U. S. -Mexico border, and their efforts to dismantle an Obama-era program so that young immigrants who live illegally in the country and who were brought here as young people remain in the United States.
Trump adjusted his speech to Latinos on Sunday, highlighting his low unemployment rate before COVID-19 reached the shores of the United States and announcing his anti-abortion stance. He revoked his recent push for law and order, saying that recent violence in American cities endangers Latinos He planned to celebrate a similar occasion in Arizona on Monday.
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