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“The new coronavirus is going away. It’s going away. It’s been eight months since President Trump first promised the American people that the epidemic would soon be over. In the past 8 months, the epidemic in the US has not only remained out of control, but the number of confirmed cases has soared past 9.2 million, with the number of confirmed cases surpassing 100,233 on October 30, a record high for a single day. Trump’s national poll numbers have continued to fall, falling from a 50-50 split with his rival Biden to 41-50, nine points behind Biden.
The epidemic has become the most important issue in the election, with some Republican voters saying that they voted for Biden because they were dissatisfied with Trump’s negligent treatment of the epidemic: “I’m voting for my life! Vote. Kimberly McLemore, a 56-year-old Florida resident who has voted for Republican candidates in the past, told AFP this, “In good conscience, I can’t vote for this guy this time. She believes Trump is not taking the epidemic crisis seriously at all.
It’s all over the TV when you turn it on – COVID, COVID, COVID, and you’ll never hear about it again on November 4. In a last-ditch rally, Trump complained that the media was all about the epidemic and nothing else, declaring, “We’re ending the epidemic, our numbers are unbelievable. The more he talked, the more he got, stressing that he would be immune to Wuhan pneumonia for at least four months after he was cured, and said to the crowd of cheering supporters, “I can run and kiss each and every one of you, men and women. He also didn’t wear a mask at all when he got up close and personal with the people.
Trump and his team are truly incredible. After a White House Justice nomination party in early October turned into a “super-spread” that infected more than a dozen people, including Trump, five of Vice President Pence’s top aides were diagnosed nine days before voting day. White House Chief of Staff Middlesex responded, “We’re not going to contain the outbreak. Pence, who is also the head of the White House’s epidemic prevention team, also ran his campaign, prompting the media and public health experts to question whether the White House is using a “live or die” approach to deal with the worst virus pandemic in a century.
In October, Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, warned that the next six to 12 weeks might be the “darkest period” of the Wuhan pneumonia pandemic. A team study by the University of Washington and scientists from the UK and Australia also pointed out that by February next year, the cumulative number of martial lung deaths in the United States may exceed 500,000, but universal masking would reverse the epidemic and save nearly 130,000 of those lives.
In the face of a worsening epidemic, why has Kawakami reversed course and repeatedly downplayed the threat of the virus? Although he may have lost the national popular vote, but he believes he can play the “reboot the economy” card, branding Biden as a “blockade the economy” faction, he can be in the nine “swing states” slight lead, rely on including the nine states with a majority of the key 270 electoral votes, to keep the White House seat.
To achieve this goal, Trump can never lose Florida and Pennsylvania, the two biggest vote bank. That’s why Obama came out at the last minute to build momentum for Biden’s platform, making his first stop in Pennsylvania to canvass for votes, then going to Florida, “We can’t afford another four years. Obama blasted Trump for his mishandling of the epidemic, urging voters to stop slouching out to vote like they did four years ago.
The CBS News poll also showed that two-thirds of Pennsylvania voters cited the Wuhan epidemic as a major factor in their decision to vote. When Trump faced off against Hillary four years ago, he let Pennsylvania “flip from blue (Democrat) to red (Republican)” with only a slight lead.
People in Florida also said the experience of the epidemic influenced their vote, but Biden only led Trump in the polls by about three points in the state, and the final outcome is still hard to say. “It’s a dilemma,” said Eddie Rivera, a West Palm Beach restaurateur who said the shutdown nearly destroyed his restaurant business, but he doesn’t qualify for the federal outbreak relief bill and is in a quandary over who to vote for. There are also many hard-core Trump fans who insist that the new coronavirus is “only a little bit worse than the flu,” said Cindy Falco, who attends the weekly pro-Trump gathering, adding that the Democrats are deliberately “creating a scare factor,” exaggerating the severity of the virus just to bring down Trump.
Fighting for the most critical 270 electoral votes, Biden can not rely on the capture of Pennsylvania alone to win the election, he must also take two smaller states to have a chance to win, such as the Midwest Wisconsin and Michigan, but the epidemic and closure effect in these two states to bring serious divisions and confrontation, no college education in the voting day whether the white people enthusiastically vote, support Trump, may shake the election results. (Blue Yaxin/Comprehensive Foreign Press Report)
A chronicle of the US election under epidemic conditions
2020/03 Biden Autism
The epidemic prevented Biden from doing what he does best to get close to voters, and he spent two months in his basement in Delaware obeying a no-footing order against the epidemic, for which his opponent, Trump, mocked him as Sleepy Joe, who “hides in the basement.
Biden’s attitude contrasts sharply with Trump’s blithe dismissal of the epidemic.
2020/06/20 Trump holds indoor rally
Kawakami in Oklahoma City, Tulsa (Tulsa) to hold an indoor rally, is the first large-scale indoor political rally since the spread of the epidemic in the United States, the host team in the morning of the rally, six people were announced confirmed, but still determined to hold activities, although the organizers distributed masks to the participants, but most people did not wear masks at all. A few weeks after the rally, there was a spike in confirmed cases in Dulcea, which local health officials believe was related to the rally.
2020/08 Bipartisan congresses change video
The Democratic National Convention (DNC) on August 20 was reduced to a two-hour event, with speakers speaking via Zoom video or pre-recorded video, and was silent compared to previous years when it was filled with crowd cheers and applause.
The first time I saw him, he was in the audience of the Republican National Convention, and he finally gave in and changed some of his activities to video conversations, and he was only there on the opening day.
2020/09/22 U.S. death toll exceeds 200,000
Biden criticizes opponent: ‘It’s because of Trump’s lies and incompetence over the past six months that we are facing the worst loss of life in U.S. history.’
Trump insists the U.S. epidemic is about to take a turn for the better, and he hopes a vaccine will be developed quickly.
2020/10/01 Trump confirms diagnosis
With the election only a month away, Trump’s own diagnosis became an election shocker, with Trump traveling around the U.S. getting close to voters, many times without a mask.
While Trump himself is hospitalized, the Republican team is trying to turn the crisis into a turnaround, claiming that Trump has first-hand experience with the virus, while Biden does not. Kawakami went from diagnosis, hospitalization, back to the White House to recuperate, and Biden spent the nine days running around swing states building momentum.
Kawakami’s “comeback” on October 10 claimed to be immune to Wuhan pneumonia (not based on science). Kawakami is surrounded by the first lady, Kawakami’s son Byron, White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany, former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, Vice President Pence’s chief of staff Shooter and others who have confirmed the diagnosis.
2020/10 debate canceled
The second presidential election debate, originally scheduled for Oct. 15, was scuttled when Trump refused to use video chat, and the third debate remains on schedule for the 22nd.
2020/10 Bailout package deadlocked
The epidemic has hit the economy and Trump’s proud economy has lost color, with the U.S. unemployment rate going from zero to 7.9 percent in a nine-month period, and peaking at 14.7 percent in April. The U.S. Congress is deadlocked on the fourth wave of the government’s bailout package. Five days before the election, the U.S. Department of Commerce released the 3rd quarter GDP (gross domestic production) annualized quarterly growth rate of 33.1%, higher than economists’ estimates of 32%, but this significant growth is due to the previous bottom of the epidemic, the current U.S. GDP is still 3.5% lower than the pre-epidemic high.
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