Trump Has COVID megathread (update 10/24: 2 Pence staffers test positive)

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So what does this mean for the race? I could see him getting a sympathy bump but not sure..

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My hunch is that tonight, Joe Biden won the Presidency of the United States.

Fully agreed. This is a disaster for his campaign.

Congratulations, Atlas Dems.

On the contrary if he plays this right he can bounce back and win big time. Didn't Boris Johnson's approvals shoot up after he survived? Even if it's a temporary bump it'll be just in time for the big day.

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ACB is negative, for all you wishing it on her

No one here did that. Stop being a drama queen.

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I'm pretty sure he's fine, they have to make it seem bad so his inevitable "recovery" looks far more triumphant in the public eye.

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TRUMP WASN'T TESTED BEFORE THE DEBATE!!!

https://twitter.com/AndrewKirell/status/1312121190597586944?s=20

But muh sympathy bump

This will literally change nothing. Sympathy bump is still possible.

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I wouldn't be too surprised if Pence tests positive tomorrow.

He very may well have the virus. But that's just my two pence

If 2020 ends with President Pelosi...

Some Kim Campbell parallels if that happens. First woman, likely wouldn't serve long, predecessors resigned/became incapacitated

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‘God-tier genetics’: A stunned MAGA world offers blame, adulation after Trump’s diagnosis

“You’ve never seen him sick. You’ve never seen him without energy,” Brenden Dilley, a self-described “MAGA life coach,” told his viewers on his radio show Friday. “[He’s] not walking around with weak-ass, p---- f------ genetics. He ain’t got those liberal genes. These are, like, god-tier genetics; top 1-percentile genetics.”

Wishful thinking abounded, as well: Dr. David Samadi, a urologist and commentator for Fox News and the conservative Newsmax outlet, set the goal posts by pointing out that while Covid-19 patients over the age of 70 had a 94.6 percent recovery rate, patients ages 24 to 49 had a 99.8 percent recovery rate. “I would put POTUS in the 20-49 category due to his strength and stamina,” he tweeted.

“Does anyone else find it odd that no prominent Democrats have had the virus but the list of Republicans goes on and on?” tweeted DeAnna Lorraine, a former congressional candidate who has backed baseless theories from the QAnon conspiracy movement, going on to blast masks as a Democrat-backed lie and questioning whether China had technically made an “assassination attempt” on the first family.

...according to various QAnon theorists, Trump had left a secret message to his followers in his announcement on Twitter that he had tested positive for Covid-19. Some suggested that his use of the word “together” was, in fact, code for “to get her,” a reference to attacks on his 2016 rival, Hillary Clinton. Others thought Trump’s quarantining was part of a broader plan to isolate the president from potential violence associated with the upcoming election.

What the holy hells?

We are witnessing the birth of a new religion.

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I have a gut feeling that his condition is going to worsen over the weekend.

I'm sure the writer's are going to have him on his deathbed before he makes a miraculous recovery in time for the third debate to reignite the horse race.

This is so obviously what's going to happen it's not even funny.

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Yeah this was probably a gaffe from the doctor but gaffes are the lastlast thing the Trump campaign needs rn

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He must be taking some pretty good sh**t.

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1313073591974592512
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1313071950781181953

WHOA...

This can't be good, right? No one, not even Trump loyalists can see this as stable behaviour, right?

I mean, would you discharge someone acting like this, back to the White House? Would you give them back their little paper slip with the nuclear codes?

He’s literally just tweeting.......

Do you think stable people tweet like that? All caps, back to back, this is Kanye when he's off his meds stuff. It's messy even for Trump.

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Trump just announced on twitter that he'll be leaving Walter Reed at 6:30 tonight. "Don't be afraid of COVID and don't let it dominate your life" he says.

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Sooo, bets on when he gets readmitted?

Over 90%, imo

I don't think he'll go back. Even if he takes a turn for the worse

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Sooo, bets on when he gets readmitted?

Over 90%, imo

I don't think he'll go back. Even if he takes a turn for the worse

Well, he can't say no to a retransfer to the hospital if he's unconscious.

That's the only way. So long as he's conscious, he's not going back to any hospital.

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So basically he's gonna go back to the WH and relapse.

Maybe not if he was given drugs that virtually everyone else doesn't have access to.

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Why is everyone so convinced he'll relapse?

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How soon before he’s out campaigning again?

And I think at least the second presidential debate should be canceled.  I would say Biden should decline the invitation but then the media would probably just let Trump do a town hall for 90 minutes.  But if Biden goes, Trump could infect him.

Besides that, Trump could infect the moderators and the audience/staff.  Do the debate over Zoom or don’t do it.

Biden should demand that all attendees wear a mask at all times, and if they refuse, then he should decline to do the debate.

That would make Biden look weak.. He can't risk it. Should just do what Harrison did and put up a glass barrier.

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Why is everyone so convinced he'll relapse?

Because there is no recorded chronic case of COVID that has a result in less than a week, even among the healthiest and youngest.

But that doesn't mean his health is guaranteed to get worse again.

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How soon before he’s out campaigning again?

And I think at least the second presidential debate should be canceled.  I would say Biden should decline the invitation but then the media would probably just let Trump do a town hall for 90 minutes.  But if Biden goes, Trump could infect him.

Besides that, Trump could infect the moderators and the audience/staff.  Do the debate over Zoom or don’t do it.

Biden should demand that all attendees wear a mask at all times, and if they refuse, then he should decline to do the debate.

That would make Biden look weak.. He can't risk it. Should just do what Harrison did and put up a glass barrier.

You've got to be joking. Making attendees wear a mask so a deadly virus doesn't spread is "weak"? Stop following the GOP propaganda.

No, refusing to debate would.

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President looked good leaving Walter Reed. A very disrespectful reporter shouted out “Do you think you’re a super spreader?” Such disrespect. Perhaps I should vote for him out of spite for the reporters.

You really are a terrible troll.

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https://twitter.com/MattMurph24/status/1313263988822757382

That has to be a crime right?

Whether something is a crime or not has never stopped this administration.

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The President's illness has humbled him. He now truly understands the hardships that millions of people are going through:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1313449844413992961

If only he knew there's a vaccine for the flu as well as effective medicines for it too. While COVID currently doesn't have either.

Unfortunately a lot of people are going to respond well to this tweet.

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The President's illness has humbled him. He now truly understands the hardships that millions of people are going through:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1313449844413992961

If only he knew there's a vaccine for the flu as well as effective medicines for it too. While COVID currently doesn't have either.

Unfortunately a lot of people are going to respond well to this tweet.

Mostly his followers, and they were going to vote for him anyway

I'm not so sure about that.

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Yeah...Covid-downplaying when he was transported to a hospital several days ago is not a good strategy. This will hurt him.

It's not the downplaying that'll help him it's suggesting we open up. A lot of people, especially undecided younger people really want that.

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Yeah...Covid-downplaying when he was transported to a hospital several days ago is not a good strategy. This will hurt him.

It's not the downplaying that'll help him it's suggesting we open up. A lot of people, especially undecided younger people really want that.

Younger voters do not trust a word Trump says. I really don't know where this idea that 18-35-year-old voters are magically going to break hard towards Trump because OH YEAH BEER PONG AND 69ING, BRO is coming from, but it's not going to happen. Trump has been pushing hard for reopening for six months now and it hasn't moved the needle with young voters, or anyone else for that matter; why in the world would that change now?

The fact that it's been seven months and a lot of people are getting stir crazy. Of course that idea wasn't as popular when this was all new.

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Yeah...Covid-downplaying when he was transported to a hospital several days ago is not a good strategy. This will hurt him.

It's not the downplaying that'll help him it's suggesting we open up. A lot of people, especially undecided younger people really want that.

Younger voters do not trust a word Trump says. I really don't know where this idea that 18-35-year-old voters are magically going to break hard towards Trump because OH YEAH BEER PONG AND 69ING, BRO is coming from, but it's not going to happen. Trump has been pushing hard for reopening for six months now and it hasn't moved the needle with young voters, or anyone else for that matter; why in the world would that change now?

The fact that it's been seven months and a lot of people are getting stir crazy. Of course that idea wasn't as popular when this was all new.

Trump's messaging will start appealing to undecided voters and make them suddenly break hard towards him any day now...any day now...any day now...

I swear, it's like you want him to win again so you can be confirmed in your low opinion of the American public.

The American public reelected an obvious war criminal with over 50% of the vote in 2004, and then gave us Donald Trump. Forgive me for having a low opinion of our electorate.

Also, this is is almost certainly a majority introvert forum (myself included) so we aren't gonna grasp it but a lot of people still feel very limited and "Let's just get on with things, we can't do this forever" becomes a talking point that really resonates.