Democratic US presidential nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden speaks at a drive-in, Get Out the Vote campaign stop in Tampa, Florida October 29, 2020. — Reuters pic
Trump, 74, held another big rally in Tampa, telling the cheering crowd that coronavirus lockdowns under Biden, 77, would banish normal life.“We’re never going to lock down again.... We’re open for business,” he said, telling supporters that his own bout with Covid-19 this month proved that it can be beaten.The coronavirus has already taken 228,000 American lives and is strongly rebounding nationwide in a long-predicted end-of-summer second wave.
But elect Biden, Trump told the Florida crowd, and they will face “rioters and flag burners and the left wing extremists.” “Right here in Florida, it’s up to you. You hold the key. If Florida goes blue, it’s over! It’s over!” he said ahead of a second event in Tampa. While Trump mocks him for holding small campaign events, Biden said he was showing an example, instead of staging the president’s “super spreader events.”