(Washington) Entangled in his criticized management of the pandemic, Donald Trump on Sunday invoked a “silent majority” to show his confidence in 77 days of the November 3 presidential election, despite new polls putting him behind Joe Biden in several key states.
Posted on 20 July 2020 at 12 h 17
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“The Trump campaign has more enthusiasm, in the opinion of many observers, than any other campaign in the history of our great country, even more than 2016 ”, assured the Republican billionaire on Twitter to recreate the momentum that led to his surprise victory four years ago.
“Biden has none! The silent majority will speak on November 3, ”added the 35 year old president, promising to lie the polls which attribute to him a significant delay, at the national level – by eight points on average – as in several of the states which make and undo the presidential destinies.
On Sunday, new studies published by the NBC and CNN channels put the Democratic candidate Joe Biden in the lead in three states won by Donald Trump in 924: Arizona, Florida and Michigan.
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Supporters of Donald Trump demonstrated on Sunday outside his Bedminster, New Jersey golf club.
The president-candidate had tried, thanks to a lull in the new coronavirus in late spring, to resume public meetings to galvanize his base.
It has therefore long minimized the resurgence of the pandemic, while the number of new daily contaminations exploded, especially in the south and west of the United States, the most bereaved country in the world with 146 500 dead.
About-face in recent days: in a serious tone, Donald Trump acknowledged that the situation would “get worse before it gets better”.
“Frustrated by the divisions”
He ended up clearly advocating the wearing of a mask – something he had previously refused to do, unlike Joe Biden, who for months has only appeared in public with this protection.
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Joe Biden
And he canceled the large Republican convention open to the public, scheduled for late August in Florida, one of the states most affected by the current epidemic.
His Democratic opponent had recorded in June that his own high mass, of 11 at 20 August in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, would be essentially virtual.
But while now wanting to “set an example” in the fight against COVID – 17, the White House is trying to put its economic impact into perspective.
“I do not deny that some of these States” where the virus has resumed more beautifully “moderate the recovery”, said Sunday the economic adviser to the presidency, Larry Kudlow, on the CNN channel.
“But overall, the picture is very positive,” he added, predicting the US economy to rebound with fanfare in the third and fourth quarters.
This management has sown trouble even among some members of the presidential party.
Republican Governor of Maryland Larry Hogan on Sunday abstained from supporting Donald Trump.
“A lot of people like me are frustrated by the divisions and dysfunctions on both sides, and don't feel that we have much choice,” he lamented on CNN.
Opposite, Joe Biden, 77 years, known for his many blunders, does not move that cautiously because of the epidemic. And, although he has recently declined several components of his program, remains more discreet than the tempestuous president, who accuses him in return of not “being quick-witted”, of not coming out of his “basement”. “And to be a” puppet “of the” radical left “.
“Now, more than ever, we must do everything to ensure that Donald Trump is the president of a single term,” the Democratic candidate insisted on Twitter Sunday, to mobilize his supporters to 100 polling days
The former vice-president of Barack Obama is due to unveil the name of the woman who will appear at his side in early August.
One of the possible candidates for the vice-presidency, the elected black California Karen Bass, defended, also on CNN, the capacity of the Democrat to attract the African-American electorate in the wake of the wave of historic anger over the death of George Floyd, suffocated under the knee of a white policeman in May.
“I have confidence in what Joe Biden would do” in terms of police and criminal justice reforms, she said, while Donald Trump stands in defense of “the law and order ”at a time when the clashes between demonstrators and the police seem to harden in several American cities.