Washington DC: President Trump
has been trailing badly against the Democratic National Party Presidential
Nominee, Joe Biden in several national polls. Early voting has already began in
several key states and a record number of voters have had turned out at the
voting centres to cast their vote. According to media reports on Thursday, 14
million Americans turned up to vote in early voting. President Trump has been
hoping for a second term in the White House with the incumbent Vice-President
Mike Pence in tow who is also seeking a second term as the United States
Vice-President. Trump and Pence are facing Joe Biden and Kamala Harris who are
vying for the President and Vice-President positions respectively.
The year 2020 has been
particularly harrowing for President Trump marred with several scandals that
rocked his administration to its core. Since his election in 2016, President
Trump’s presidential career has been wrought with scandal after scandal with
the most damning of them coming this year. Days before he was tested positive
for the coronavirus, The New York Times published the tax returns of Trump
which had shown that Trump paid measly sums to the IRS despite claiming to be a
billionaire and exceptional businessman. Previously, Trump refused to disclose
his tax returns to public citing that his financial records were under audit
and therefore unable to make the returns public. After months of downplaying
the global pandemic, President Trump had contacted the virus himself along with
his wife, the First Lady, Melania and their youngest son, Barron Trump. Trump
had been taken to a military hospital in Maryland after exhibiting symptoms but
attracted further criticism after violating the guidelines. He took a joy ride
in his car waving at his supporters two days after he was admitted into the
hospital. He made a hasty return to the White House claiming that he was free
of the coronavirus and felt powerful. In a rally addressing his supporters in
Florida, the President claimed that he was immune to the coronavirus and ready
to take on his opponents in the election battle.
Since the coronavirus pandemic
broke out in March, more than 200,000 Americans have lost their lives due to
the deadly virus and throughout the pandemic, Trump claimed that the virus was
not as dangerous as health experts were making it out to be. His statements
frequently contradicted the opinions of health experts such as the
distinguished Dr. Anthony Fauci. An
overwhelming number of Americans has opined in a survey that they take Dr.
Fauci’s advice more seriously than the President’s. Dr. Fauci has been working
as the Director of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since
1984. Earlier this week, Dr. Fauci’s were allegedly taken out of context and
were used in an ad campaign video of President Trump. Dr. Fauci said that he
had never given permission to Trump’s campaign to use his words or any other
political candidates for that matter emphasising his bi-partisan stance
throughout his career that spanned more than five decades.
More than 12 people have had been
diagnosed with the coronavirus who were members of Trump’s most trusted circle.
The health experts and Dr. Fauci opined that the event organized by the White
House on September 26th to announce Trump’s Supreme Court Justice
nomination Amy Conley Barrett could be a super spreader event. The guests at
the event were photographed with several of them in attendance without wearing
face masks. Trump and Biden clashed in a controversial first presidential
debate which was denounced by political leaders and the American public as
well. As of late, the chances of Trump re-election to the nation’s highest
office are appearing to be running out, and Trump has been lately resorting to
undermining his own allies.
