Donald Trump has said Joe Biden will destroy the country by increasing lockdowns. (FILE)
Miami:
U.S. President Donald Trump and challenger Joe Biden will rally voters hours apart Thursday in the city of Tampa, Florida, their country lanes crossing for the first time as rivals’ struggle for the White House enters. his last frantic days.
Florida is a must-see prize, and polls show candidates are at an impasse in America’s third-largest state, which has sided with the winner in every presidential election since 1964, with one exception.
The candidates’ events will certainly be a mixed study, with the largely unmasked and densely populated Trump supporters rallying in the afternoon, and Biden hosting a socially distant drive-in meeting later that evening.
The day before, Trump was perplexed in Arizona, as Biden voted in his home state of Delaware and met with health experts, as he fine-tuned his pandemic response plan, seeking to reassure voters in the fact that he would use science to fight contagion.
The virus has killed more than 2.27,000 people in the United States and forced millions of people out of work in the world‘s largest economy as a resurgent wave of cases reached record levels.
“I’m not running on a false promise that I can end this pandemic with the flip of a switch,” said the 77-year-old former vice president, who has a strong lead in opinion polls.
“But what I can promise you is this: we will start on day one by doing the right thing. We will let science guide our decisions.”
On Saturday, Biden must gain some star power when he is joined on the Michigan stump by Barack Obama, of which he was vice president.
This will be their first joint in-person appearance from the 2020 race, although Obama has always delivered strategically timed events to Trump.
Trump, on the other hand, ends his campaign in an extreme endurance test, with one final attempt to catch up in both the swing states and also states that he won in 2016 but now has to defend himself.
After rallying supporters in three states on Tuesday, Trump, 74, spent the night in a fourth – Nevada – then flew to Arizona for two more rallies.
On the tarmac at an airport in Bullhead City, Ariz., Trump virtually ignored the Covid-19 crisis, and many supporters were not concerned with masks as they applauded his provocative insistence on a landslide victory on the 3rd November.
“It’s going to be a big, big red wave,” he snarled, referring to the Republican color.
“We love you! We love you!” replied the enthusiastic crowd.
At another rally, in Goodyear, Ariz., Trump predicted he would repeat his 2016 upheaval, saying, “We’re going to have an even bigger surprise in six days.”
-Under the shadow of Covid
The pandemic has turned all aspects of American life upside down and eclipsed the election, with polls showing it could well be the loss of the president as cases hit record highs in the United States.
While many Americans fear the risk of voting in crowded polling stations, a remarkable 74.7 million people have already voted.
Some 57.4% of Americans disapprove of Trump’s response to the coronavirus, while 39.8% agree, according to a poll average compiled by the tracker FiveThirtyEight.com.
Biden has used this to build an impressive lead in the polls heading into final week and is looking to widen his path to state-to-state victory.
On Tuesday, Biden visited Georgia, traditionally Republican territory, and said he would travel to Florida, Wisconsin and Michigan in the final days of the race.
All of them are states that Trump won in 2016, but up for grabs this year.
On Wednesday, Trump maintained his contempt for Biden’s emphasis on health security, saying the Democrat would destroy the country by increasing lockdowns.
“If you vote for Biden it means no kids in school, no graduates, no Christmas and no 4th of July together. Other than that, you will have a wonderful life.”
But Trump’s chief infectious disease specialist Anthony Fauci warned on Wednesday that even if a Covid-19 vaccine is released this year, it will be “until the end of 2021 and maybe even next year” to reach “semblances of normalcy.”
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