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Coronavirus affects Trump's campaign in contested states 

2020-10-29T00:59:53.818Z


With less than a week to go until November 3, the president continues his mass events despite the fall wave of COVID-19 infections in states like Nebraska and Michigan.


By Shannon Pettypiece - NBC News

LANSING, Michigan - President Donald Trump's rallies on Tuesday seemed to leave out a common denominator affecting the campaign: COVID-19.

He was in Wisconsin, where the positive test rate exceeded 25%, 

Nebraska, a region where health officials reported the highest number of hospitalizations

since the start of the pandemic, and Michigan, where the number of cases has nearly doubled. in recent weeks, and some health facilities are nearing capacity due to the increase in new infections.

But at election events, and at similar rallies during the final days of the presidential campaign,

the president did not seem focused on the rebound in coronavirus cases.

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“COVID, COVID, COVID cases, have you ever noticed that they use the word 'cases'?

As if Barron Trump had a case, he sneezes, uses a tissue and gets better, "said the president, while making comments that insisted on minimizing the severity of the virus in a mass meeting held in the capital of the state of Michigan, in the that most people did not wear masks.

Cases of coronavirus only increased due to increased testing, Trump said, 

adding that media coverage of the pandemic is being used to make him look bad.

Regarding testing, he said, “I hate it in many ways.

We test all of them… If I told them to cut the tests in half and we cut them in half, they would go crazy because the cases would drop by about half, right? "Trump wondered.

In the days leading up to the election, Trump is dealing with a fall wave of coronavirus infections

that months earlier he had predicted would not occur and that, over the summer, was dismissed by people close to his campaign because they planned to promote economic recovery. .

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disputed states like Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin are being hit particularly hard

with hospitals overwhelmed and a surge in the number of deaths in Wisconsin and Minnesota.

Trump can't afford to lose in those four states, even if he can hold on to the rest of the ones he won in 2016, and polls indicate that he has consistently trailed his Democratic rival Joe Biden for months in those regions.

But Trump's response to the sudden increase in infections has been to continue organizing events in those areas, without taking additional security measures, and ruling out the risks.

At a rally in Wisconsin over the weekend, where state officials had to set up a field hospital to deal with the flood of cases,

Trump baselessly argued that the death toll might not be as high as it appears.

“If someone has a terminal cancer illness and has COVID-19, we report it.

And the doctors get more money and the hospitals get more money.

Think about that incentive, ”Trump said at that rally.

“If someone has a bad heart and is close to death, even if it is not, but has a very bad heart and contracts Covid, they attribute it to Covid.

Other countries are taking it seriously.

So let's start looking at those things. " 

Vice President Mike Pence continues to travel to campaign events, despite the fact that at least five members of his staff were diagnosed with coronavirus last week. 

Pence held an event Monday in Minnesota - where new cases, hospitalizations and deaths are on the rise -

that violated state public health rules on large gatherings.

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It's a strategy that the campaign believes appeals to the president's white working-class voter base, but has alienated other key groups, such as the elderly and women. 

Over the summer, Trump's adviser Kellyanne Conway urged Trump to resume his daily coronavirus briefings in order to project the image of a commander-in-chief taking charge of the crisis,

as her support among the elderly it began to decline in states like Florida.

Trump aides say those numbers started to climb in September.

Still, in the final weeks of the campaign, Trump has said that the country is overcoming the pandemic, and assures that the sudden increase in cases is due to an increase in testing. 

However, cases have increased more than tests, and hospitalizations have also increased. 

Rather than urging people to practice social distancing and wear masks to try to reduce contagion, Trump continues to gather his supporters closely together at rallies and does not require them to wear face masks.

And without a vaccine before the election, Trump has shifted his focus to treatments in development - a message he believes helps him - even though those drugs remain inaccessible to most Americans.

"Trump's play is to run through the middle and 

continue the massive rallies in the states even though the virus is on the rise

. I hope he breaks the defense and somehow ends up in the end zone," said Dan Eberhardt , a major donor to Trump.

“It's cheeky and bold.

It is also the only play he has.

It is lagging behind and has invested much more. "

Source: telemundo

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