FOX NEWS LIVE UPDATES ON TRUMP’S CORONAVIRUS HOSPITALIZATION
And over time, and the president behind Biden in the most recent public opinion polls in many key states on the battlefield that will be the winner of the White House, the highlight of the presidential election has been dramatically replaced again.
Just two weeks after the death of pioneering Supreme Court magistrate Ruth Bader Ginsburg shook the race for the White House, giving the president the opportunity to unite Republicans by moving to temporarily verify a conservative justice formula to succeed the liberal-trending Ginsburg. on the upper court, the focus of the campaign overturned.
The president’s confirmation Friday morning that he and first girl Melania Trump had tested positive for COVID-19 immediately put the focus of the White House race back on the coronavirus and the Trump administration’s efforts to combat the pandemic. later, when Trump admitted Walter Reed.
“This is not good news for the president, as he will now be in Covid-19, and when he is in Covid-19, Biden has a merit of 10, 11, 12 points,” said Frank Luntz, a high-ranking Republican pollster and communications representative. said on Fox News “The Daily Briefing with Dana Perino. “
Luntz presses that “the economy is Donald Trump’s strength, and the fact that he can’t get out now is going to be a challenge for the campaign. “
Chris Wallace, host of Fox News Sunday, agreed that “the coronavirus and its control by the president are the most sensible thing on the agenda. “
Wallace, who moderated Tuesday’s first presidential debate between Biden and Trump, noted in the “American newsroom” that the pandemic “fits the ultimate challenge. . . The general feeling in the component of some is that the president has not been cautious enough and that Biden has been too cautious. This will be a challenge in the future. “
The pandemic spread across the country in February and March. Two weeks ago, the country took a dark pace, with more than 200,000 COVID-19-related deaths, and more than 7 million showed infections across the country.
For the more than seven months, Biden has continually criticized the president, accusing Trump, at first, of downplaying the severity of the epidemic and then spoiling the federal government’s response. Trump and his crusade have continually rebuffed criticism, citing, among other things, the administration’s early efforts to limit the air with China, the home country of the pandemic.
BIDEN SAYS TRUMP’S COVIDE DIAGNOSTIC REMINDER ”WE NEED TO TAKE THIS VIRUS SERIOUSLY’
Hours before the president was hospitalized, Biden on the crusade path, speaking in michigan’s key state, reduced his complaint about Trump, and his crusade later pointed out that they were withdrawing all negative announcements, but the former vice president is under pressure that Trump’s coronavirus diagnosis “is an enveloping reminder to all of us that we want to take this virus seriously. “It doesn’t automatically disappear . . . The news reminds us that, as a country, we want to deal better with this pandemic. “
Biden’s comments came three days after Trump, who has refused to wear a mask in public until July and continues to resist any forceful exhortation by Americans to wear a mask, mocked Biden for dressing in a mask, saying during Tuesday’s debate that “I don’t. “Don’t wear a mask like him. Every time you see him, they give him a mask. I may communicate two hundred feet away and show it with the biggest mask I’ve ever seen. “
Biden, who for mask clearances across the country, resumed his post on Friday asking for “national mandates. “
And he suggested that Americans “be patriots. ” It’s not about being a tough guy, it’s about doing your part. Wearing a mask will not only be done by you, but also by those around you: your mother, your father, your brother, your sister, your husband, your wife, your neighbor, your colleague. Don’t do it just for yourself. “
The president’s condition now makes it incredibly difficult for him to argue – which he has argued in recent weeks – that “we are turning the corner” in the war against the epidemic and that it is time to reopen the economy.
Mo Elleithee, founding executive director of Georgetown University’s Institute of Politics and Public Service and a Fox News contributor, said the news complicated things for the Trump campaign, which, he noted, ” tried to focus on the debate on everything about COVID and when they communicate about it, they tried to argue that the response is effective. It’s going to be a lot more complicated for them to do any of those things now.
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Biden has a forced advantage over Trump in the coronavirus S votes. Fox News’ last national vote found that, with a margin of 52% to 44%, he elected the former vice president more than the president to better manage the crisis.
Elleithee, spokesman for Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign, who later served as communications director of the Democratic National Committee, said: “The question is whether or not this serves as a call for attention for those who do not take COVID seriously. It will be much more difficult for others to minimize it now and make sure THAT COVID will continue to be the number one challenge in everyone’s mind. If this disease can enter the Oval Office, it is additional evidence that can catch it. which raises stakes in the debate on the government’s response. “
For the president and his crusade, the bad news did not end with his diagnosis of coronavirus, two key players from the combined strengths of the president’s re-election team and the Republican National Committee (RNC) also tested positive for COVID-19. Trump crusader manager Bill Stepien and RNC President Ronna McDaniel.
Trump’s debate coach and former New Jersey governor Chris Christie was also hospitalized Saturday after a positive.
And the remaining two presidential debates, scheduled for October 15 and 22, are now in a bind, depriving Trump of the last chances he has left to move the needle in the White House race.
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For now, with Trump marginalized, his crusade will depend on Vice President Mike Pence and other substitutes reviewing to accelerate the pace.
But Luntz sees a ray of hope imaginable in the president’s hospitalization.
‘I think he deserves to make a call to the public as he did (british Prime Minister) Boris Johnson after he was given in poor health and it’s a possibility for him to say, ‘This is what we’re going to do, here’s what we want’ We’ve done and this is what we’re going to do over the next few days , weeks and months, “to show empathy”.
Luntz noted that “the president is essentially six and a part of seven issues with only 30 days to go, so I think he deserves to use this as an opportunity to reformulate, remodel and talk to the public about what he’s done so well for four years. . since then. “