Donald Trump returns to campaign trail at Florida rally and declares: ‘I feel so powerful’
- Behind in polls, Donald Trump launches battleground state swing
- Trump’s medical team said he had tested negative for coronavirus
“It’s great to be back in my home state, Florida, to make my official return to the campaign trail,” Trump declared in front of a crowd of thousands of supporters, standing shoulder to shoulder, mostly without masks, despite the ongoing pandemic.
“I feel so powerful,” said Trump, displaying no obvious signs of lingering infection. “I’ll walk into that audience. I’ll walk in there, I’ll kiss everyone in that audience. I’ll kiss the guys and the beautiful women … everybody. I’ll just give ya a big fat kiss.”
Dr Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious-disease expert, said Monday on CNN that those who recover from Covid-19 are likely to be immune for a limited period of time, but there are cases emerging of people getting reinfected weeks or months later.
With three weeks to go before Election Day, Trump – whose doctor said Monday for the first time that he had received a negative test for Covid-19 – is pushing to correct a stubborn deficit in national and battleground state polling as he continues to spread misinformation about a virus that he spent months downplaying.
