US polls: Trump set to host rallies in battleground states amid COVID-19 resurgence

Amid a resurgence of COVID-19 cases and US Elections being little more than two weeks away, US President Donald Trump has embarked on a tour of the battleground states to make his case stronger for his reelection. As per the government figures, the daily cases are averaging above 55,000 and numbers rising in more than 40 states including the ones that Trump has to win to pursue his second term in the office. 

However, his rival Democratic Presidential Nominee Joe Biden is leading almost all national polls by double digits mostly because of substantial deficit in the approval of Trump’s handling of COVID-19 pandemic. With such challenges in hand, the Republican leader is continuing to host large rallies with less number of supporters wearing masks or maintaining social distancing. As per reports, on October 18 he was in Nevada and attended church in Las Vegas. This week, Trump is set to address rallies in Arizona on October 19, Pennsylvania on October 20, North Carolina on October 21. 

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Trump: ‘Not a shutdown believer’

Meanwhile, in a recent interview with Wisconsin radio station, US President was asked about the kind of message being sent by hosting packed rallies of maskless supporters. To this, Trump replied that he is “not a big shutdown believer” and he doesn’t think any wrong example is being set. He even cited the example of Wisconsin and said, “they’ve been shut down and they’ve been locked down and locked up and, you know, they’ve been doing it for a long time.” In 2016, Trump won in Wisconsin by reportedly just one vote.

Earlier, a Janesville rally on October 17, Trump was seen reiterating that the battle against COVID-19 is being won by the United States. He even took to Twitter again presenting his old argument of US reporting a higher number of novel coronavirus infections because of the number of tests being carried out. Claiming that no other nation in the world is testing at the level of the US, US President took a dig on “lamestream fake” media for ‘pouncing’ on the number of daily cases. 

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