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A week after his release from Walter-Reed military hospital where he was taken after being infected with the coronavirus, Donald Trump held his first campaign rally in Sanford, north of Orlando, Florida, on Monday, October 12 . The outgoing president spoke for more than an hour, confirming the success of his convalescence. He returned to the fiery diatribes against his Democratic opponent, Joe Biden, ensuring that he is now in ” good shape “.
” I got it “, he said of the Covid-19. “Now they say I’m immune. I feel so powerful. I will step forward in this audience. I’m going to go and I will hug everyone. I will kiss guys and beautiful women, everyone. I’ll just give you a big kiss ”, assured the president who did not embarrass himself with a mask, neither during the trip to Sanford nor on stage. The wearing of the mask was uneven in the compact crowd facing it, which did not meet federal recommendations for physical distancing, even though the meeting was held as usual now in the open air, on the tarmac of an airport.
As the number of contaminations increases again in the United States, Mr. Trump has been optimistic. “Under my leadership, we will deliver a safe vaccine and embark on a recovery like no one can believe. If you look at our ascending path, no country in the world has recovered like we have ”, he assured against all evidence.
The President of the United States has only three weeks from now until November 3 to reverse a currently unfavorable trend in terms of voting intentions. He plans to visit Pennsylvania on Tuesday and then to Iowa the next day. Other meetings could follow by the weekend in Georgia, North Carolina and Wisconsin. The fact that half of these stages concern States that he had won clearly in 2016 is a sign of the difficulties that await him.
The rapid recovery of the president, who showed no sign of fatigue on Monday, leaves the problem he faces intact. Mr. Trump had already embarked on a marathon of meetings before he was stopped by his hospitalization. These high profile encounters with his followers, however, had no impact on the gap that already separated him from his main opponent, Mr. Biden.
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