'They want to try to get me to be in Biden's physical level,' Trump told a crowded rally held in airport hangar outside of Pittsburgh. 'I don’t like rumors like that. It's not true.'
and mocked his Democratic opponent for wearing a mask in a freewheeling rally Thursday in Pennsylvania that came as polls show a tightening race.
Trump was responding to a new book that asserted Vice President Mike Pence had been put on"standby" to take over the powers of the presidency during Trump's unexpected visit to Walter Reed Medical Center in November.Though the book, written by New York Times reporter Michael Schmidt, doesn't mention the health issue in question, Trump has latched on to questions raised by his critics on social media about whether he had suffered a series of"ministrokes.
Trump spent far less time discussing the pandemic or its economic consequences. After telling his audience to wear a mask if they celebrated Labor Day weekend with others, he went on to rip Biden for frequently appearing in public with a mask. "He didn’t like the he looked and thought it made him look weak," Reiner said."This is what happened when the president’s narcissism collided with the needs of the country. Narcissism won."
The rally is Trump's second major campaign event since the Republican National Convention last week – he rallied in New Hampshire on Friday – and comes at a time when conventional wisdom suggests many are just beginning to tune into the race. In Pennsylvania, Biden holds a 4-point lead over Trump among registered voters and a 1- to 3-point lead among likely voters, according to a Monmouth University Poll this week. Patrick Murray, director of the poll, described the race as a"game of inches."
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