In the all-important state of Florida, Joe Biden, and Donald Trump in the presidential election campaign (click here to read the SPIEGEL cover story) even a long-distance duel delivered. In view of the persistently high Corona-infection, the numbers of the candidate of the Democrats attacked the President sharply. The big events were “super-spreader Events”, in which Trump not only viruses, but also discord in the country spread.
Biden was in the town of Coconut Creek in the vicinity of Miami in front of a small quantity of the visitors had come in around 200 cars. They had to stay in the vicinity of your car, the distance to comply with the rules. With the Corona-policy Trumps the former Vice President went hard to the court: “He says it’s the end of that (the Virus) will go away. That we learn to live with it. No, he expects us to learn to die with it,” shouted Biden to his followers.
Trump held at the same time an election campaign speech in Tampa. At the event, thousands of people were like in the past few days, close together, many pushed in front of the stage – of them without masks. Trump scoffed, the Biden Events were not due to Corona so small, but because nobody wanted to go. “I think, how many people come, this is the ultimate poll – and based on that, we are going to win on Tuesday.”
Next Tuesday is election day in the United States. In most surveys, is Biden on the front, also because of dissatisfaction with trump’s handling of the Corona-crisis. The pandemic has cost the United States more than 225,000 people. Trump claims to have by his management of the crisis, possibly millions of Deaths prevented. Biden accuses Trump, however, failure and blamed him for the death of tens of thousands of US citizens are responsible.
On Thursday were reported by the John Hopkins University for the first time, more than 90,000 new infections per day in the United States. Especially the rural areas in the North and in the centre of the country are affected now. Regardless of the location of Trump’s new from the castle of far-reaching restrictions of public life in the United States. “We will never again do a Lockdown,” he announced and pointed to the Germany and France announced restrictions. Biden accuses Trump again and again that this have about a year and a half after the Start of the pandemic is still no Plan in place to combat it.