Even if he can be satisfied with having found the campaign stands, Donald Trump has not fulfilled his goal of filling up. Ignoring the warnings on the coronavirus, the tenant of the White House in fact resumed Saturday night in Tulsa in Oklahoma with the meetings which he loves but without the expected crowd to give a boost to a re-election campaign badly engaged.
A rambling discourse
Assuring himself to be in a brilliant form, the American president attacked with virulence with his democratic adversary Joe Biden, described as “puppet” at the same time of “the radical left” and China. He also presented him as a politician who had "never done anything" in a half-century career in Washington. In a rambling speech of almost two hours, Donald Trump posed as a defender of "law and order" and called on the Americans to go to the polls on November 3 to secure a second four-year term.
However, the numerous rows of empty seats did not contribute to the image of a candidate who knew how to find a second wind. Its campaign manager, Brad Parscale, also admitted that the figures were below expectations, designating those responsible as "radical demonstrators" and "a week of apocalyptic media coverage".
"Slow down screening"
In front of a room where few of his supporters wore protective masks, Donald Trump vigorously defended his decisions against the coronavirus, which he once again called "Chinese virus". "I have saved hundreds of thousands of lives, but no one ever praises our work," he said. The president of the first world power estimated that the tests were "a double-edged sword": "When we do this volume of screening, we find more people, we find more cases". And, in the process, he added in an apparently ironic tone: "So I said: Slow down the screening". "He was obviously joking to denounce absurd media coverage," said an official from the White House, speaking on condition of anonymity.
It must be said that the Trump meeting made many observers fear the appearance of a new focus of transmission with a crowd from all over the United States. Hours before the rally began, six members of the President's campaign team tested positive for Covid-19 and were placed in quarantine. The temperature of all members of the public was therefore taken at the entrance and masks and disinfectant gel systematically offered.
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