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For Trump, November Election Is Always in Mind

Ken Bredemeier

   With his job on the line, next November's national election is never
   far from the mind of President Donald Trump, even as he confronts the
   country's growing death toll from the coronavirus pandemic.

   "I can't imagine any president doing more than I have," Trump boasted
   during a nearly hour-long interview Monday on one of his favorite
   shows, "Fox & Friends" on the Fox News channel.

   The Republican Trump assailed his likely Democratic presidential
   opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden, saying, "If Sleepy Joe was
   president, he wouldn't know what was going on" about the coronavirus.

   A staple of U.S. political campaigns -- large rallies with cheering,
   flag-waving supporters -- is nothing but a memory, with Trump extending
   social distancing guidelines in the U.S. through April and calling for
   bans on gatherings of all but small groups of people. Both Trump and
   Biden have abandoned such rallies in favor of taking potshots at each
   other over the airwaves.