President Donald Trump will resume travel to the United States next week. He also announced that he was "looking forward" to holding his electoral meetings. In the running for a second term against Democrat Joe Biden, he hopes to hold rallies "in the not too distant future". 

Donald Trump announced Wednesday that he will resume travel to the United States next week and is looking forward to "crazy" election rallies as soon as possible. The president told reporters that he is "looking forward to" going to "Arizona" next week, his first trip across the United States since the coronavirus epidemic put the country on the line. stop. His trip to this western American state is devoted to reviving the country whose economy was brought down by the coronavirus.

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Rallies "in the not too distant future"

There will be no campaign rally, "because it is too early" for events in full stadiums, said the Republican billionaire from the White House. But the septuagenarian, vying for a second mandate against the democrat Joe Biden, hopes to hold again rallies "in the not too distant future".

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"I hope we can have good old meetings of 25,000 people where we make all the mad because we love our country," he pleaded. Donald Trump said he couldn't imagine a meeting where three-quarters of the seats would be empty. "It wouldn't be very nice to see," he said.

He said he would travel "very soon" to Ohio, a key state ahead of the presidential election in November.

A rapid rebound for American economic power

In a meeting with American industry officials, the 45th President of the United States played the card of optimism, insisting that the world's largest economic power would quickly rebound from this crisis. He predicted that the dangerousness of the virus would go away by itself and that the United States was equipped to put out the remaining "embers".

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"I want to return (to a full economy) with or without (vaccine), but of course we will wait until he leaves. He will leave" assured Donald Trump about the coronavirus. "It will leave, it will go, it will be eradicated," he said, without specifying how.