Trump relaunches campaign with vaccine promise, vision of 'incredible' future

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Trump relaunches campaign with vaccine promise, vision of 'incredible' future

The US president is doing poorly in most polls against challenger Joe Biden

Published: May 04, 2020 08:43 AFP and Compiled by Christian Borbon, Digital Content Editor

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Copy of 2020-05-03T234255Z_2134947000_RC2BHG9Y0A5I_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-USA-1588567197576 — Washington: President Donald Trump relaunched his election campaign Sunday with a live television event inside the iconic Lincoln Memorial, promising an early coronavirus vaccine and urging Americans to put the pandemic behind them to embrace an "incredible" future. Image Credit: Reuters

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Copy of 2020-05-03T233001Z_1778410686_RC2BHG92Q24I_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-USA-1588567194597 — With the two-hour long Fox News "town hall," Trump sought to wrap himself in the mantle of America's arguably greatest president - and to persuade a nation battered by death and mass unemployment to look ahead. Image Credit: Reuter

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Copy of 904260-01-08-1588567161342 — "We can't stay closed as a country, we're not going to have a country left," he said on the show, where two moderators, as well as ordinary citizens via video, put questions to him in front of the monument. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 904256-01-08-1588567159378 — "We're going to have an incredible following year," he said. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 904337-01-08-1588567192064 — To a woman who called in expressing fear of financial ruin and eviction, Trump said her job would come back. "You get a job where you make more money," he said. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 2020-05-04T002525Z_1842528791_RC2CHG9EOPYG_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-USA-1588567169525 — Saying Americans should start going back to beaches this summer and recommending that shuttered schools need to reopen in September, Trump forecast good news on the hunt for a vaccine. Image Credit: Reuters

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Copy of Virus_Outbreak_Trump_30096.jpg-8c4eb-1588567189386 — "We are very confident that we're going to have a vaccine... by the end of the year," he said, admitting he was getting ahead of his own advisors with the prediction. "I'll say what I think," he said. Image Credit: AP

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Copy of 2020-05-04T011226Z_1908656621_RC2DHG9ZPLCX_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-USA-1588567179417 — The businessman Republican is doing poorly in most polls ahead of the November presidential contest against Democratic challenger Joe Biden, who remains shuttered in his Delaware home. Image Credit: Reuters

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Copy of 904263-01-08-1588567166525 — Trump faces criticism for his bruising, divisive style during a time of national calamity. He is also accused by some of botching the early response to the COVID-19 virus. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 2020-05-04T001013Z_441610818_RC2CHG9LIPJX_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-USA-1588567212215 — Worse, the previously booming US economy, which was seen as a golden ticket to his second term, is now in dire straits due to the nationwide lockdown. Image Credit: Reuters

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Copy of 2020-05-04T011914Z_587332233_RC2DHG9B172I_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-USA-1588567185358 — With officials saying the viral spread has begun to taper, Trump is itching to return to the campaign trail. Image Credit: Reuters

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Copy of 904261-01-08-1588567164029 — However he faces new criticism that he is trying to declare premature victory, even as the illness continues to kill thousands of Americans every week. Image Credit: AFP

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Copy of 2020-05-03T235924Z_870363356_RC2BHG952XII_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-USA-1588567206357 — Having repeatedly minimized the death toll, claiming it will end at around 60,000, Trump conceded that now "I'm saying 80 or 90 and it goes up." Image Credit: Reuters

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Copy of 2020-05-03T234937Z_1027384362_RC2BHG9C2JJR_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-USA-1588567204147 — His emphasis, however, was not on the dead, but on resurrecting his image as a can-do leader who can end the skyrocketing unemployment caused by the lockdown. | Vice President Mike Pence and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin watch as U.S. President Donald Trump participates in a live Fox News Channel virtual town hall called "America Together: Returning to Work" about the response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic being broadcast from inside the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, U.S. Image Credit: Reuters

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Copy of 2020-05-04T011539Z_298267637_RC2DHG9GZXTR_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-USA-1588567182507 — That audacious shift began Sunday at possibly the most hallowed monument in the country - the statue of Abraham Lincoln, who led the country through civil war, urged reconciliation, and was assassinated in his moment of triumph. Image Credit: Reuters

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Copy of 2020-05-04T001001Z_1705691549_RC2CHG9VIBFF_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-USA-1588567209206 — Trump, who calls himself a "wartime president" denied that the election will turn into a referendum on his handling of the crisis. Image Credit: Reuters

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Copy of Virus_Outbreak_Trump_90752.jpg-68797-1588567200954 — But he added: "I hope it does because we've done a great job." Image Credit: AP

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Copy of 2020-05-04T004714Z_1112593733_RC2CHG9AT7V9_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-CORONAVIRUS-USA-1588567175832 — In the next few days, Trump will follow up by breaking months of self-quarantine with long-distance trips to the key electoral states of Arizona and Ohio. Image Credit: Reuters

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20200405 trump re election — It's a play that will emphasize Trump's massive visibility advantage over Biden and, the White House hopes, rewrite the public relations script after gaffes including the president's suggestion that coronavirus patients ingest disinfectant. Image Credit: Reuters

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