Total US cases topped the two million mark Thursday, the death toll climbed beyond 114,000 and the Trump campaign is readying for “tremendous” public rallies
America is hurtling headlong into a fresh round of chaos as the White House’s election-year political calculus trumps a public health apocalypse with nearly half of the country’s 50 states reporting an alarming uptick in COVID19 cases after a spate of hurried re-openings.
Total US cases topped the two million mark Thursday, the death toll climbed beyond 114,000 and the Trump campaign is readying for “tremendous” public rallies in at least four states with rising cases: Arizona, Florida, Oklahoma and Texas. Thursday offered the clearest signal yet that the White House has abandoned its public health leadership role during a pandemic.
The Trump campaign is asking Americans not to hold the US president accountable for COVID19 infections during his first rally in months, coming up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Like Trump, his deputy Mike Pence is also going mask-less in the midst of crowds, drawing widespread criticism from the medical community.
Trump is eager to wade into his sweet spot of wild rallies with thousands of cheering supporters. It’s not hard to see why: His poll numbers have tanked to 41 per cent, eight in 10 Americans think the country is out of control according to a Wall Street Journal/NBC poll and he’s got consistently low marks for his handling of the pandemic and protests over the death of George Floyd, an African American man brutally killed by a white police officer last month..Read More
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