⁍ President Donald Trump held an in-person campaign rally in Arizona on Wednesday despite a surge in COVID-19 cases.
⁍ Pandemic is roaring back in the days leading up to Tuesday’s contest between Republican Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden.
⁍ Biden holds a comfortable lead in national polls, which show a public increasingly dismayed by Trump’s handling of the largest public health crisis in U.S. living memory.
– With less than a week before Election Day, President Trump held an in-person campaign rally in Arizona on Wednesday despite a US surge in COVID-19 cases and criticism he is prioritizing his re-election above the health of his supporters. The pandemic that has upended life across the United States this year, killing more than 227,000 people, is roaring back in the days leading up to Tuesday’s contest between Republican Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden. Biden holds a comfortable lead in national polls, which show a public increasingly dismayed by Trump’s handling of the largest public health crisis in US living memory. Polls in battleground states that will likely decide the election are tighter than the national surveys. “If I weren’t president, if you had Sleepy Joe as your president, it would have taken you four years to have a vaccine. You would have never had a vaccine,” Trump said at a rally in Bullhead City, per Reuters. A Trump adviser said the rallies were “priceless” given Biden’s dominance on the ad airwaves. “These rallies generate significant free media coverage that helps offset whatever money advantage Biden has. Fox News basically runs the whole rallies. It’s a great asset,” the adviser said. A pro-Biden group, Priorities USA Action, said its recent polling in six battleground states found that when people were told Trump was holding large rallies without mask-wearing requirements, most disapproved.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election/update-5-as-covid-19-roars-back-in-us-trump-rallies-in-battleground-arizona-idUSL1N2HJ1J7