Trump Holds Potential Superspreader Rally To Win Re-election
With Election Day just around the corner, President Donald Trump doesn't have enough time to turn his campaign around. As part of a desperate move, the president on Monday launched a quest slated to run for three weeks, hoping to save his presidency.
Trump has been accused of downplaying coronavirus during the initial stage of the outbreak in the United States. He personally refused to follow guidelines such as wearing masks to restrict the spread of the virus, and it was hardly surprising that he contracted the pathogen earlier this month.
Much to Trump's allies' relief, the president was able to recover from COVID-19, but even an encounter with the virus doesn't seem to have changed Trump's approach when it comes to following safety guidelines. Addressing a packed-in crowd, Trump behaved as though the pandemic, which continues to claim several lives across the nation, has come to an end.
During his first rally since his own COVID-19 diagnosis, Trump offered an inaccurate picture of the country's battle with the disease, took multiple jabs at Joe Biden over social distancing, and promised victory on Nov. 3, kicking off a frantic push to the US Elections 2020, featuring multiple rallies every day that could potentially act as superspreader events.
Showing that his own bout with COVID-19 did not teach him to follow his own government's guidelines, Trump in Sanford, Florida, said he felt so powerful that he could walk in the audience and kiss them. The president's return to trial came when Republicans are concerned about his sliding poll numbers. After a report from CNN Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warning Democrats are on fire, Biden on Monday cashed in on the start of confirmation hearings from Trump's Supreme Court pick Amy Coney Barrett to warn that the Republicans were attempting to destroy the Affordable Care Act through the nomination.
Exchanges between Biden and Trump began on a day when enthusiasm in the electorate and the obstructions some American voters had to overcome to exercise their democratic rights was emphasized by hour-long waits to cast ballots at the start of in-person early voting in Georgia, which has now become a presidential and Senate battleground. In addition to long lines, there were several glitches at one supersite in Atlanta.
On Monday, 126,876 Peach State voters had cast their ballot. Voters in Suwanee, a suburb of Atlanta, waited in a long line, going viral on social media leading some Democrats to accuse the administration of voter suppression. During his Florida rally, Trump addressed an energy-packed large crowd that was subject to his hour-long performance that including running through his list of fancied political attacks from law and order to his baseless claims of voting irregularities.