Please note the social distancing of the crowd?
Trump IS STILL sick…
His voice is horse and he’s pushing his comeback health….
But he and his people KNOW they ARE behind and this ain’t 2016…
President Trump, eager to prove he is healthy and energetic despite his recent hospitalization for Covid-19, returned to the campaign trail on Monday night in Florida, speaking for just over an hour in a state that his advisers think he must win in November, but where voters were overwhelmingly repelled by his performance in the first general election debate.
Mr. Trump, whose voice sounded hoarse and strained as he began to speak onstage at a hangar at Orlando Sanford International Airport, claimed he was fully recovered and therefore immune to the coronavirus — a claim for which there is no conclusive scientific backing.
“I feel so powerful,” said the president, who did not wear a mask while boarding Air Force One at Joint Base Andrews before leaving Washington. “I’ll kiss everyone in that audience. I’ll kiss the guys and the beautiful women. Just give you a big fat kiss.”…
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Many rallygoers on Monday evening did not wear masks, including some of those chosen to stand behind the president’s podium and within the camera shot. And even as Mr. Trump claimed he was immune to the virus, White House officials traveling with him acknowledged the risk to those around him. En route to Florida, Mark Meadows, the chief of staff, uncharacteristically wearing a mask, visited the press cabin on Air Force One to thank reporters for covering the event.
Onstage, Mr. Trump also mocked questions about whether he would agree to a peaceful transfer of power if he lost. He claimed, falsely, that President Barack Obama had spied on his 2016 campaign and noted, “We’ll take care of it after the election,” adding that it “gives you another reason to go out and vote.”
For the most part, however, the president was back to delivering his regular, factually challenged campaign stump speech…
Wash Post….
…President Trump has rallies. In 2016, he closed out the general election with a legitimately impressive string of rallies throughout the swing states. He won the presidency, though not the popular vote, a development that seemed to cement his sense that he knew what was needed to win. So when 2018 rolled around, Trump again closed out the midterms with a flurry of rallies … only to see his party get walloped. It’s not even that Democrats won back the House and took a majority of the Senate seats that were up for grabs. It’s also that Trump’s rallies made little discernible difference in polling and may even have cost his party seats by energizing the opposition.
The thing about rallies, though, is that Trump obviously loves them. He gets to surround himself with his most fervent supporters and have them cheer for him for an hour, like a stand-up comedian performing at a nightclub filled only with his best friends and wildly intoxicated joke enthusiasts. Trump can credit the rallies with delivering 2016 for him — and use that as an argument for holding as many rallies as possible….
More…
The Wall Street Journal
@WSJ
Joe Biden leads in polls because he has bored in on two big themes: The country is ready to unify rather than divide, and the coronavirus is, as he might say, a really big deal, writes
@GeraldFSeib
And in a sure sign they are losing the Truno campaign plans to go after Kanala Harris.
When has actively attacking a VP candidate worked in the past?
Didn’t work for Democrats going after Dan Quayle as inexperienced in 1988. Or Republicans attacking Al Gore as an environmentalist in 1992.
The Obama team let Sarah Palin’s stupidity speak for itself and didn’t make her a centerpiece of the campaign.
Also considering Harris is far more popular than Palin ever was this venture looks even more likely to fail.
It shows that Trump will ALWAYS go for the race card….
Where is the vaccine?
Election Day is a scant three weeks from today!
U can get a vaccine shot if you want the volunteer test subject….
Otherwise?
I’m talking about a vaccine approved by the FDA that is available to the general public like the flu vaccine.
Quite obviously nothing like that is going to be available in the next three weeks.
Nope….
None of the 4 front end manufactures see their product being released before late winter or early spring and the first gets would probably be essential first contact medical people and high risk seniors….
There will be a LOT of people who won’t want to take the vaccine…
Nate Silver
@NateSilver538
Trump doubling down on a series of extremely unpopular messages about COVID—after having caught COVID, and at a time when COVID cases are rising again nationally—is about the worst possible closing pitch, and one has to wonder about how downballot GOP candidates feel about it.
I don’t know.
However, a lot of Republicans are echoing Trumps attitude about Covid .
Yeah, how many have offered outright criticism of Trump holding these rallies? Basically none. They will all go down with the ship
Yea and a LOT of those knuckleheads have gotten infected….
Trump is telling people he feels like ‘Superman’ now…
Why?
He’s been treated with steroids ….
Beware the “Superman Curse.”
Voters may be his Kryptonite.
And I am pretty sure that Clark Kent was part of the “fake media.”
Atheists are involved in charitable organizations just as Catholic, Jewish and other Americans do.
https://foundationbeyondbelief.org/
That’s not a “fellowship group.”
Most atheists believe strongly in the first two clauses of the First Amendment, and would fight strongly for any positive faith’s right to practice and advocate its religion.
Thank you Dave. That has been my experience with atheists I have met in real life. None want to “abolish religion”.