President Donald Trump is headed into the concluding days of the much-awaited 2020 election with a nation-wide surge in coronavirus cases and another outbreak in the top aides of the White House. Paying no heed to this determinant, the president is bent on selling an alternate reality to American voters.

Trump insists that the situation in the country is improving as far as the coronavirus pandemic is concerned. Moreover, he blames the media for focusing on the deadly virus that continues to claim several lives across the United States and criticizes Democratic nominee Joe Biden for suggesting another nationwide lockdown to restrict the spread of the coronavirus.

During his rally in Londonderry, N.H. over the weekend, Trump said the country is coming around, adding that they have the vaccines and everything else needed to revive America. He said, even without the vaccine, they have been able to change things for good, The Boston Globe reported.

The president's handling of the coronavirus outbreak is the most important issue to most voters, and it is likely to be the most important point during the last week of the election as voters head to cast ballots amid a still raging pandemic that led to their businesses, schools, offices closing down and decimating the economy. Despite trailing Biden in several states, Trump's campaign doesn't expect the president to revise his message.

Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, who continues to be close to the White House, noted that America has been dealing with coronavirus since March, and the country has seen how Trump handled it. He went on to say that there's nothing that has happened in the last 24 hours, or that's likely to happen in the next nine days that will change voters' opinion about this issue, POLITICO reported.

The Trump administration appeared to have given up on restricting the spread of the deadly virus on Sunday after the White House chief of staff Mark Meadows' comments. Meadows told CNN that they are not going to control the pandemic but focus more on getting the vaccines, therapeutics, and other mitigation.

Biden, who has argued in the past about Trump being unfit to be the president because of his inability to restrict the spread of the virus, immediately clapped back in a statement. Noting that it wasn't a slip by Meadows, Biden said his remark represented the president's strategy since the crisis began. He accused Trump of ignoring the virus, hoping that it will magically disappear one day.