The president’s confirmation Friday morning that he and the first girl, Melania Trump, had tested positive for COVID-19, immediately put the White House race in the coronavirus and Trump’s efforts to combat the pandemic.
PRESIDENT AND FIRST LADY POSITIVE TEST FOR CORONAVIRUS
“The coronavirus and the president’s control over him are the sensible thing on the agenda,” Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace said Friday morning at America’s Newsroom.
Wallace, who moderated Tuesday’s first presidential debate between Trump and Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, under pressure that “this is the ultimate problem . . . The general feeling of some is that the president has not been cautious enough and that Biden has done so. too cautious. This is going to be a challenge in the future. “
And the most recent news comes on Election Day on November 3 in a month, with an early face-to-face vote and a vote by mail already underway in almost part of the country, and with President Biden on the most recent public opinion ballot. in many countries, the major states on the battlefield will likely make a decision in the election.
The pandemic spread across the country in February and March; Last week, the country took a dark pace, with more than 200,000 COVID-19-related deaths now recorded and more than 7 million infections across the country.
For more than six months, Biden has continually criticized the president, first accusing Trump of downplaying the severity of the outbreak and spoiling the federal government’s response.
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During Tuesday’s debate, Biden said that “the president has no plan. He didn’t divulg anything . . . He panicked.
Trump and his crusade have continually rejected criticism, citing, among other things, the administration’s early efforts to limit air with China, the country of origin of the pandemic.
“We have the dresses. We have the masks. We made the fans,” the president bragged in the debate.
The president’s positive check for COVID also highlights his resistance to strongly urging Americans to wear masks, which public fitness experts have insisted for months as an effective tool to prevent the spread of the virus.
In May, the former vice president called Trump an “absolute madman” for dressing up in a mask in public and belittle Biden for dressing up in one, and accused Trump’s refusal to wear a mask in public “feeding death. “a mask in public until July.
During Tuesday’s debate, Trump mocked Biden for dressing up in a mask, saying, “I don’t wear a mask like him. Every time he sees it, they give him a mask. He can speak two hundred yards from him and appears with the biggest mask I’ve ever seen. “
Then the two exchanged the fireplace for masked dresses, Biden emphasized that “the mask makes a big difference. “His own CDC leader said that if we only wore masks at the time, if everyone wore a mask and a social distance between now and January, it would save up to 100,000 lives. It matters. “
Trump responded by saying, “They said otherwise. “
Biden replied: “No user has said otherwise. No user.
Then the president stated that “I agree with the masks. I don’t fight the masks. “
The exchange of debates is now in the midst of fear following the president’s positive check for COVID-19. The bad news also makes it difficult for the president to set out his point, anything he’s argued in recent weeks, that “we’re turning the corner” in the war on the epidemic and that it’s 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 complicates things for the Trump campaign, which said he “tried to focus on the debate about everything COVID and when they communicate. “in this regard, they tried to argue that the answer is effective. ” It’s going to be a lot more complicated for them to do any of those things now.
WHO IS SAFER TO MANAGE CORONAVIRUS: BIDEN OR TRUMP?
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 for 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 remain the number one challenge in everyone’s mind. If this disease can reach the Oval Office, it’s additional evidence that you can get it. which raises stakes in the debate on the government’s response. “