US President Donald Trump
(Photo: AP/File)US election 2020 Live updates: President Donald Trump on Friday said he is preparing to conduct a pair of weekend rallies after his campaign trail halted due to his coronavirus treatment, which according to his doctors was now complete. Hence, Trump is aiming to campaign in Florida on Saturday and Pennsylvania on Sunday. A return to in-person events would be aimed at convincing voters he is healthy enough to campaign and to govern.
President Donald Trump has completed his course of therapy for Covid-19 and will be fit to resume public events from Saturday, Dr. Sean Conley, Trump’s physician said Thursday. In a memo released by the White House, Conley said Trump’s condition has remained stable and he has responded “extremely well” to treatment.
Trump on Thursday refused to participate in next week’s presidential debate with his Democratic challenger Joe Biden, calling it a “waste of time” after the organisers announced that the second debate will be held virtually because of the president’s diagnosis of COVID-19. “I’m not going to waste my time on a virtual debate. That’s not what debating is all about,” Trump said in a nearly hour-long phone interview with Fox Business.
Concerns about the debate had risen after the first presidential debate took place between Trump and Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on September 29 in Cleveland, Ohio. US President Donald Trump tested positive for the novel coronavirus soon after the debate.
Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., stands with her husband Douglas Emhoff while Vice President Mike Pence stands with his wife Karen Pence during the vice presidential debate Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020, at Kingsbury Hall on the campus of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
Democratic vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris is urging Arizona residents to vote "Like your life depends on it," because, she says, "it really does." Joe Biden and Harris are campaigning together Thursday for the first time since their nominating convention in August, and they chose Arizona to highlight the critical new battleground.
Republican President Donald Trump on Friday prepared to return to the campaign trail with a pair of weekend rallies after his COVID-19 diagnosis sidelined him for a week in the race against Democratic nominee Joe Biden for the White House.Trump, who announced he had been infected with the coronavirus on Oct. 2 and spent three nights in a military hospital receiving treatment, said late on Thursday he was feeling "really good" and, with a doctor's blessing, aimed to campaign in Florida on Saturday and in Pennsylvania on Sunday.
Hours after police foiled an alleged plot to kidnap her, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer argued in a speech Thursday that President Donald Trump's words had been a rallying cry for extremists. Whitmer, a Democrat said the Republican president has spent the last seven months of the coronavirus pandemic denying science, ignoring his own health experts, stoking distrust, fomenting anger and giving comfort to those who spread fear and hatred and division. She singled out Trump's debate comments when he did not condemn white supremacist groups and told one farright extremist group to stand back and stand by. (AP)
Americans are rushing to cast ballots ahead of the Nov. 3 election at an unprecedented pace, early voting numbers show, indicating a possible record turnout for the showdown between President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden.
With less than four weeks to go before Election Day, more than 6.6 million Americans already have voted, more than ten times the number who had at this time in 2016, according to the United States Elections Project, which compiles early voting data. (Read more here)
President Donald Trump has completed his course of therapy for Covid-19 and will be fit to resume public events from Saturday, Dr. Sean Conley, Trump's physician said Thursday. In a memo released by the White House, Conley said Trump's condition has remained stable and he has responded "extremely well" to treatment.
"Saturday will be day 10 since Thursday's diagnosis, and based on the trajectory of advanced diagnostics the team has been conducting, I fully anticipate the President's safe return to public engagements at that time. (With Reuters)
Donald Trump on Thursday refused to participate in next week's presidential debate with his Democratic challenger Joe Biden, calling it a "waste of time" after the organisers announced that the second debate will be held virtually because of the president's diagnosis of COVID-19. The nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates said that the second presidential debate scheduled in Miami on October 15 will take the form of a town meeting, in which the candidates would participate from separate remote locations.
It said the decision has been taken in order to protect the health and safety of all involved with the second presidential debate.
However, President Trump, who tested positive for COVID-19 and was admitted to a military hospital for four days for its treatment, refused to participate in the virtual debate. "I'm not going to do a virtual debate. I'm not going to waste my time at a virtual debate," Trump told Fox News in a telephonic interview soon after the independent and not-for-profit Commission announced changes in the format of the debate.
Trump, who claimed victory over Biden in the first presidential debate, asserted that he expects to do the same in the Miami debate as well. (PTI)
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he is ready to hold campaign rallies and he credited an experimental drug treatment with helping his recovery from COVID-19, although there is no way for the president or his doctors to know whether the drug had any effect.
“I''m feeling good. Really good. I think perfect," Trump said during a telephone interview with Fox Business Channel, his first since he tested positive.
“I think I''m better to the point where I''d love to do a rally tonight,” Trump said adding that he no longer thinks he''s "contagious at all.”
Trump did not indicate where or when he might have contracted the virus, saying only, "If you''re anywhere around this thing you can catch it.”
But he mentioned a recent Rose Garden event announcing his new Supreme Court nominee and a meeting with military families. He said family members often want to get up close to him and “kiss” and “hug” him. “I can''t say ''Back up. Stand 10 feet" away, Trump said.
Trump credited the drug treatment with helping his recovery and suggested his diagnosis could be a “blessing in disguise" in the nation''s battle against the pandemic.
The second presidential debate between President Donald Trump and Democratic nominee Joe Biden will take place virtually amid the fallout from the president''s diagnosis of COVID-19. The nonpartisan Commission on Presidential Debates debates made the announcement Thursday morning, a week before the two were scheduled to face on in Miami.
The candidates will “participate from separate remote locations,” while the participants and moderator remain in Miami, the commission said. Trump was diagnosed with the coronavirus a week ago and said he looked forward to debating Biden on stage in Miami, saying, “It will be great!” Biden, for his part, said he and Trump “shouldn''t have a debate” as long as the president remains COVID positive.
Biden told reporters in Pennsylvania that he was “looking forward to being able to debate him” but said “we''re going to have to follow very strict guidelines.”