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Covid-19 Trump gives a rally in Florida, says he is "immunized" and promises to "kiss everyone"
He said in a video that he had learned first-hand what the virus is that has put the world in check in 2020 after spending several days in a hospital in Washington, a carrier of the coronavirus.
But from the first words of President Donald Trump at an electoral rally, 11 days after his isolation, it follows that
Covid-19 has not made much of a dent in his speech
.
"I feel so powerful that I'm going to walk into that audience. I'm going to go in there, kiss everyone in that audience. I'll kiss the guys and the beautiful women and ... everyone. I'll give everyone a big, fat kiss." said the president at the Sanford, Florida airport, north of Orlando, before a large group of followers without any social distance and with few visible masks.
Trump is still Trump
.
The Republican has returned euphoric to the electoral campaign path after his convalescence period,
convinced that he is now "immune" to the virus
that has claimed the lives of
215,251 people
in the United States, according to the latest data from Johns Hopkins University. .
He did so on Monday, in a key state for his reelection options, three weeks before the elections, and with a clear
disadvantage in the polls
against his rival, Democrat Joe Biden.
Only in
Florida
, where in 2016 she beat Hillary Clinton by a very narrow margin - 1% -, the polls place her four points below Biden, whom she attacked vehemently.
He accused him of being the representative of "socialism" in the first world power.
"My opponent wants to give everything to Cuba and the Castros, and he also wants to give everything to Nicaragua and Venezuela," he said, knowing that
this fear of totalitarian regimes in Latin America will help mobilize the Latino vote
in Florida - 20% of the electorate - and in other parts of the country.
Biden, for his part, counterattacked on Monday on the Senate side of the sessions for the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett for the vacancy in the Supreme Court, a process marked on its second day by the
intense interrogation of the ultra-conservative magistrate
.
Barrett dodged questions about thorny issues such as abortion, Obamacare that Democrats fear could succumb to a Supreme Court with a clear conservative majority - it would be 6 against 3 with Barrett confirmed - and the rights of the LGBT community.
He insisted that he has no political agenda and that he will be governed by the law at all times, a firm defender of the Constitution.
The 48-year-old magistrate
also did not want to compromise on a possible challenge
in the event that the Supreme Court has to intervene on the result of the November 3 elections.
Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy expressed his fear that Trump will use the Supreme Court as a weapon in his favor if he keeps his promise not to recognize the results in case of defeat.
"I can't offer a legal conclusion right now about the decision I could make," Barrett said.
Of course, the New Orleans judge
recognized that the problem of racism "persists in the United States"
and that the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis at the hands of a policeman, in May of this year, is something that directly affects her as a
mother. of two black children, both adopted in Haiti
.
"It was something very, very personal to my family," he said.
Especially for her 17-year-old daughter, born in the Caribbean country.
"All of this was erupting. It was difficult for her. We cried together in my room," he said.
He did not want to go into how to tackle the problem, however.
"It is beyond what I can do as a judge."
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