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Donald Trump is back in the ring.

After his admission for coronavirus nine days ago,

the president of the United States has given his first rally before 2,000 followers

in a place, at least, institutionally complex: the White House.

It is, for example, as if the President of the Government of Spain gave a rally at the Palacio de la Zarzuela, or the British Prime Minister did it at Buckingham.

Although it is not something new for Trump, who closed the Republican Convention in August with a speech in which he accepted the candidacy for reelection from the same place.

Trump has given his rally without knowing if he has the virus or not

.

In fact, it seems that the President's Covid-19 is like his Personal Income Tax Statement: it is always about to be made public, but in the end that never happens.

Yesterday, the White House had stated that today, Saturday, the results of the last test would be released.

But, in the end, Trump has spoken without anyone knowing how he is.

The president's speech has been the usual one for him, before an audience that had been invited and among which, for the first time in a Trump electoral event, a

clear majority were wearing a mask

.

It is a significant change, and even more so in a building - the White House - in which it is not mandatory to carry it.

Apart from that, the president did not go out of his usual script.

He improvised, addressed the audience, made up mostly of Hispanics and African Americans, joked about the T-shirts that had been given to the attendees, and confirmed, once again, his tremendous ability to connect over short distances.

Rallies in key states

Trump called the act a "peaceful protest" and took the opportunity to defend the actions of the security forces.

He insisted that the United States "will never be a socialist country"

, despite the fact that public spending is equivalent to 40% of GDP, insisted that the vaccine against the coronavirus, which he called "this terrible Chinese virus", "is reaching very , very fast ", and emphasized that there are" big outbreaks in Canada and Europe ".

For the first time since the pandemic reached the US, that country is having, in a sustained way, more than 50,000 'positives' daily.

At the time Trump spoke, 214,007 Americans had died of Covid-10

, according to the Johns Hopkins University tally.

In the coming days, Trump has more rallies in the states of Florida, Pennsylvania, and Iowa. The fact that the president is attending those territories is significant: these are states where he won in 2016. Iowa, in fact, It was considered a Trump fiefdom until a few days ago.

But the president's popularity appears to have plummeted in the past week.

Two polls - one by the Democratic-oriented consultancy PPP, and another by the more independent Landmark - put Trump and Biden in a technical tie in the state of Georgia, until now an impregnable Republican fiefdom.

The polls also put Democratic White House hopeful

Joe Biden

very close to the president in the state that constitutes the Republican Party's largest vein of votes, Texas, where the governor,

Greg Abbott

, is trying to limit access to the citizens to the polls to guarantee Trump's victory.

These figures are surprising, because Trump's popularity does not appear to have fallen in this time, raising the question of whether his voters are hiding their preferences.

The statistics website FiveThirtyEight today gives an 85% chance of winning Trump

.

Of course, at this point in 2016, it was giving Hillary Clinton 81%.

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