Donald Trump claimed progress in the fight against Covid-19 disease in the United States
Washington:
President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden on Monday are in the last full week of campaigning before the November 3 election, as the coronavirus cases spike and a COVID-19 outbreak among Vice President Mike’s staff Pence keep the pandemic running. .
Trump claimed progress in the fight against the disease even as the United States set records in recent days for daily infections, while Pence continued his campaign on Sunday despite the positive tests of his close associates.
Biden accused the president of surrendering to the pandemic that has killed an estimated 225,000 people in the United States.
As of eight days before election day, more than 59.1 million Americans have already voted in person or by mail, a pace of early voting that could result in the highest turnout in more than a century, according to the polls. data from the US Elections Project. at the University of Florida.
On Monday, Trump will travel to Pennsylvania, a critical swing state heavily courted by frequent visits from the two candidates, and speak at rallies in Allentown, Lititz and Martinsburg. He’s ready for several trips to Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin this week, as well as visits to Nebraska, Arizona, and Nevada.
Biden was due to stay in his home state of Delaware on Monday. He is due to travel to Georgia on Tuesday, with stops in Atlanta and Warm Springs, a city of about 400 people where Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who took office during the Great Depression and rolled out his New Recovery program. Deal, died in 1945.
This push in Southern state, which opted for Trump in 2016 by around 5 percentage points and has not backed a Democratic presidential candidate since 1992, shows Biden’s efforts to broaden his party’s reach as polls show a competitive race in the state.
Despite Biden’s strong lead in national opinion polls, the contest in the more critical battlefield states such as Florida and Pennsylvania that could decide the outcome seems closer. Biden will be aided by an appearance in Orlando, Florida on Tuesday by former President Barack Obama, under whom he served as vice president.
SURGE IN VIRUS CASES
The United States has seen its highest number of new COVID-19 cases in the past two days, giving Biden’s campaign a chance to remind voters how Trump and his allies downplayed advice from public health experts wear masks and observe social distancing. guidelines to combat the transmission of COVID-19.
“There is no nation in the world that has recovered the way we have recovered,” Trump told supporters in New Hampshire on Sunday, many of whom were not wearing face masks.
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows said on Sunday that the administration “was not going to control the pandemic” and instead focused on vaccines and therapies.
Biden, who hammered out Trump’s response to the virus throughout the campaign, called Meadows’ remarks to admit that “they have given up on their fundamental duty to protect the American people.”
Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short, tested positive on Saturday, along with several other senior assistants. Despite the outbreak, the White House said the vice president would continue his campaign. Pence, who tested negative, according to a spokesperson on Saturday night, traveled to North Carolina on Sunday and will be in Minnesota on Monday.
The outbreak among the vice president’s staff has marked the latest cases of COVID-19 in the White House, which have included Trump, First Lady Melania Trump, their son, Barron, and numerous aides and associates.
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