• US Trump suffers another moral blow in the primaries and Ocasio-Cortez devastates New York
  • Elections. Massive 'online' boycott against Trump at his first major election rally in Tulsa

It is being the most blurred and silent campaign on record, at least in terms of political rallies. The loudest of the contenders, Republican Donald Trump, was forced to cancel the Republican Convention to be held in Jacksonville, Florida on Thursday, due to the dizzying increase in Covid-19 infections in this State. Only on Friday, the 12,000 positives were again exceeded and on Thursday there was a record with 173 deaths, at the rate of one death every eight minutes.

Trump was planning to resurrect his weak campaign in the scent of crowds and incidentally strengthen his options in one of the key states ahead of the November elections. However, the pandemic and fierce opposition from local authorities have led him to rectify. Some media consider it as one of the most responsible moments of his Presidency. Others understand it simply as a strategy to restore their bad image after criticism of their handling of the health crisis. He had no other option but to cancel just the day the United States crossed the barrier of the four million infected, with a balance of more than 147,000 deaths.

"I looked at my team and told myself that the timing for this event was not the right one," said the president. "I have to protect the American people. That is what I have always done . That is what I will always do." The turnaround is considerable compared to its behavior in recent weeks. On June 20, he challenged the situation with a controversial event in a closed pavilion in Tulsa, Oklahoma, - the cases have soared in that State since then - and in the middle of that month he moved the convention headquarters from Charlotte to Jacksonville by the refusal by North Carolina Governor Democrat Roy Cooper to loosen security measures in the face of the pandemic. Until a week ago, Trump had not appeared in public wearing a face mask. Now, it seems that the safety of the people is their priority.

In the background, fear of the reaction of the national media. "I can already see the press saying, 'Oh, this is very unsafe.' I don't want to be in that position," he said. And the unfavorable electoral polls. In April, Biden had a four-point lead in Florida , according to data from Quinnipiac University. Now the difference is 13 points.

With the numbers in favor, Biden has limited himself to communicating to the electorate his future economic plans should he be elected president. Since last March 15, when he participated in the last debate with Bernie Sanders , he has barely been seen in public. Furthermore, his party has already announced that the Democratic Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin will not be a mass event. Of the 50,000 people scheduled between August 17 and 20, a shortlist of around 500 participants has been passed.

Republicans plan to do something simple in Charlotte, a formal nomination process for their country’s presidential hopeful. Trump will have to wait for another mass bath. In the last, criticism rained down on him. He summoned his faithful in front of Mount Rushmore, in South Dakota, for the festivities of July 4, without the obligatory use of masks or any social distancing. In fact, the president barely mentioned the pandemic, despite being in full swing from coast to coast , and focused on attacking enemies of Confederate statues that still glorify the country's racist past.

Historical revisionism is also affecting symbols of Spanish heritage in America. Two more statues fell in Chicago on Thursday night. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot gave the order to remove the Christopher Columbus monuments from Grant and Arrigo parks. Its intention is to prevent protesters from forcibly killing them, as has already happened in other parts of the country. In early July, a demonstration demolished a statue of Fray Junípero Serra , founder of the missions in California, and days later the monument to the conqueror Juan de Oñate was about to suffer the same fate in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

According to the criteria of The Trust Project

Know more

  • U.S
  • Donald Trump
  • Bernie Sanders
  • America

EEUUTrump tweets a video of a supporter of his government praising "white power"

United StatesThe US Supreme Court compels Donald Trump to deliver his Personal Income Tax Declaration to Justice

EEUUTrump shows in mask in public for the first time since the pandemic began

See links of interest

  • News
  • Programming
  • Translator
  • Calendar
  • Horoscope
  • Classification
  • League calendar
  • Films
  • Themes