President Donald Trump is back on the campaign trail just over ten days after testing positive for COVID-19, and with 22 days left until the general election.
The president held a campaign rally in Sanford, Florida, on Monday — his first public event outside of the White House since he tested positive for the virus.
During the event, he took a moment to soak in the crowd’s cheers and noted that there were hundreds of supporters present.
“These are the real polls,” Trump said as he took a shot at Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden. “The other guy gets out there, and they work and work and work and 30 people show up, they put them in those crazy circles.”
“They only have the circles cause that’s the only way they can fill up the room,” Trump said.
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“30 people show up, they put ’em in those crazy circles” — Trump mocks Joe Biden for taking basic public health precautions at his campaign rallies pic.twitter.com/EgfGVg7Vtq
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) October 12, 2020
Biden has been holding small, socially distanced campaign events with circles drawn on the floor to indicate where participants can sit to adhere to social distancing guidelines.
Images on social media showed supporters packed in with little to no mask-wearing and virtually no social distancing.
Trump announced that he tested positive for COVID-19 early on Oct. 2, as IJR reported. Just over a week later, he was back in the White House working in the Oval Office.
And on Monday, before his rally, White House physician Dr. Sean Conley announced that the president had tested negative for the coronavirus and was “not infectious to others.”