Trump to resume campaigning; second debate cancelled

U.S. President Donald Trump will resume in-person campaigning on Saturday after being sidelined by a case of COVID-19, but a debate in a few days against his presidential election opponent Joe Biden was cancelled because Trump refused to participate.

Trump will address a crowd of supporters on Saturday from a White House balcony on a “law and order” theme, an administration official said. A source acquainted with the planning for the function said the crowd could possibly be in the hundreds, and all were likely to wear masks.

Then your Republican president will travel on Monday to central Florida, circumstances essential to his hopes of winning another term in the Nov. 3 election.

He'll stage his first campaign rally since his coronavirus diagnosis at an airport in the city of Sanford. The campaign didn't disclose if it would be held in a hangar with doors open, since it has previously, or entirely outside.

As the president ready to go back to the trail, your body that oversees presidential debates said the match-up between Trump and Biden, the Democratic candidate, scheduled for Oct. 15 have been formally canceled.

Trump refused to participate in what was said to be the next of three debates with Biden following the Commission on Presidential Debates switched it to a virtual contest in the wake of the president’s illness.

The final debate on Oct. 22 is still set to take place.

Questions remain about whether Trump, who announced on Oct. 2 he previously the virus and spent three nights in a military hospital, continues to be contagious.

Within an appearance on Fox News on Friday evening, Trump said he was tested again for the virus but didn't disclose the effect. He also said he previously stopped taking medications to combat it. “I feel really strong,” Trump said.

The condition has kept him from holding public rallies and attending fundraisers at a critical juncture of the campaign. He trails Biden in judgment polls with just weeks to go prior to the election.

Attendees at the Florida rally will get a temperature check, masks that they will be encouraged to wear and access to hand sanitizer, the campaign said.

Biden sharply criticized Trump’s decision to resume campaigning. “All the best. I wouldn’t arrive if you don't have a mask and will distance,” he told reporters in Paradise, Nevada.

Trump and his administration have faced criticism because of their handling of the pandemic, aswell for a lax method of mask-wearing and social distancing in the White House and - in recent days - confusing messages about how precisely ill the president has been.

At least 11 persons who attended a White House event on Sept. 26 where Trump announced his nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court have since tested positive.

Dr. Anthony Fauci, an associate of the White House coronavirus task force, on Friday called it a “superspreader event.”

“It was in times where persons were crowded together, weren't wearing masks. So the data speak for themselves,” Fauci told CBS Radio.

Nine COVID-19 cases are also linked to a Trump rally in Bemidji, Minnesota on Sept. 18, the state’s health department said on Friday, according to local media.

White House spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany said the president was wanting to resume campaigning but would do so safely. “He really wants to speak to the American people, and he really wants to be out there,” she told Fox News.

“There are medical tests underway that will make sure that when the president is back out he'll not have the ability to transmit the virus,” McEnany added.

With Trump’s management of the pandemic dominating the campaign, a new Reuters/Ipsos poll showed Americans steadily losing confidence in how he has managed medical crisis - with his net approval on the problem hitting a fresh low.

McEnany is among a string of Trump aides, including his campaign manager, who've tested positive within the last week as the virus spread within the White House and Trump campaign.

Biden has continued to campaign during Trump’s illness, spending your day in NEVADA, Nevada.

At a drive-in rally where people attended in vehicles, Biden ripped Trump for careless behavior since being infected with the virus.

“His reckless personal conduct since his diagnosis, the destabilizing effect it’s having on our government is unconscionable. He didn’t take the necessary precautions to protect himself or others. And the longer Donald Trump is president, the more reckless he gets,” said Biden, who gave the complete speech wearing a surgical mask and his signature aviator sunglasses.

The attendees honked horns to sound their approval.v