An Axios-Ipsos poll from last month found that just 2% of Americans viewed coronavirus and Covid-19 as the top public health issue facing the country. However, Democratic leaders have not pushed for a return to any of the mandates or restrictions that were in place early in the pandemic, leaving the issue to local officials. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said the president would be “masking while indoors and around people” and would remove his mask “when sufficiently distanced from others indoors and while outside as well.” Those claims are not matched by any widespread nationwide effort by Democrats.Īfter first lady Jill Biden tested positive for Covid-19 last week, President Joe Biden has at times worn a mask while indoors. His remarks echoed a late-August video by Trump on his Truth Social platform, in which he claimed that “left-wing lunatics” were seeking a return to Covid-19 restrictions in order to justify policies such as mail-in voting in the 2024 election. “Oh, that’s right, there’s an election coming up.
“I said, ‘What’s going on?’” the former president told the Rapid City audience, referring to reports about the potential return of masking. Trump, who was in office for the first 10 months of the pandemic, claimed at a Friday rally in South Dakota that Democrats were trying to “restart the Covid hysteria” ahead of the 2024 election. Kristi Noem's endorsement while headlining rally in state REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks on the stage at a South Dakota Republican party rally in Rapid City, South Dakota, U.S.
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