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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's campaign has an epically bad day -- and it's not just the virus
Washington PostTrumps illness means that hell be in isolation at the White House for the immediate term and, therefore, not actively campaigning. The president has long seen his rallies as instrumental to his political success, one of the reasons he was eager that they resume earlier this year. Until his health is improved and the risk of infecting others reduced, he wont be holding any event, much less a large rally.
As The Washington Post has reported, its not clear when Trump contracted the virus or when he might have been contagious to others. Over the course of this week, he traveled or met repeatedly with members of his family, campaign aides and elected officials. Out of an abundance of caution, his reelection campaign has canceled events including members of his family, who generally serve as prominent and active surrogates on his behalf. The duration of that ban isnt clear, but it means a loss of a number of events with a little over a month to go until Election Day.
The ongoing pandemic is one of the primary reasons that Trump has consistently trailed former vice president Joe Biden in the polls. As a result, his campaign had repeatedly tried to redirect voters attention, training it instead on crime or the economy. The Trump diagnosis throws that out the window entirely. Over the short term and probably as long as Trump is not on the campaign trail the pandemic will be the most important campaign issue by far.
It gets worse for Trumps campaign. After all, the focus of the race will be not only on the pandemic but specifically on Trumps decision to repeatedly downplay the threat the virus poses as he has pushed for the country to return to normal. Trumps broad effort to suggest that the pandemic was all but over meant that a number of states and tens of thousands of Americans treated it as if it was. Over the summer, that approach contributed to a big surge in new cases in the South. Trumps own infection seems like a microcosm of his ignore-it-and-it-will-go-away national strategy.
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Trump's campaign has an epically bad day -- and it's not just the virus (Original Post)
brooklynite
Oct 2020
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Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)1. Old saying: Man plans...the gods laugh. nt
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,793 posts)2. There will be some sympathy, but not much.
Because Trump has shown little to none for those 209,000 plus who have died, and towards those who are infected.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)3. How do ya like yer herd mentality now, Donnie?
NoMoreRepugs
(9,463 posts)4. The idiot deplorable base will not understand that
RUMP contracted the virus from not wearing a mask.
This level of ignorance concerns me.
central scrutinizer
(11,662 posts)5. "Abundance of caution"?
Dont make me hurl. Abundance of ass covering
empedocles
(15,751 posts)6. If the press, et al, get on to, 'when did trump 1st have symptoms', when did he 1st test positive,
he will have a bunch of really bad days.
[Seems likely he knew at the Debate when he was raging and spitting Covid droplets at Biden].
PTWB
(4,131 posts)7. Glorious Leader suffering a nasty case of Covid will suppress R turnout.
To some degree.