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US President Donald Trump said he will soon hold campaign rallies in Oklahoma, Florida, Arizona, and North Carolina, in spite of increasing Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations in some states. He will return to the campaign trail with a large deficit to make up nationally against the former vice president and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden. But, he will do it in 3-states excluding Oklahoma. The state has recorded its highest 3-day average of infections since the start of the Covid-19 outbreak. He informed reporters on Wednesday and said a next week rally in Tulsa will mark his official return to the campaign trail. The press secretary of White House, Kayleigh McEnany informed reporters that the Trump team would do all it could to keep rally-goers as safe as possible.

But, McEnany didn’t explain how they would try doing so. The US health experts continue to warn against large gatherings due to the highly infectious disease that has killed at least 112,000 people in the United States while infecting at least 1.9 million. Trump said, “They’re all going to be big”, amid a rift with North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper (a Democrat, over the 2020 Republican National Convention) and Trump called him backward. It is due to Cooper has said he sees no way for such a large gathering without participants wearing masks and social distancing.

President Trump said Texas, Georgia, and Florida all are in the running should he formally decide to move the convention to another state. It is slated for Charlotte in August. He said, “The governor is not giving an inch”. Trump took only one question during an unplanned media opportunity in the White House’s Cabinet Room. Point to be noted that Trump supporters cheered as the president told an audience that coronavirus had many names, but he preferred to call it “the plague from China”. Donald Trump said, “The supply [of oil] changed rapidly with Covid-19, or whatever you want to call it, I’d never heard so many names. You’ve got 30 names you can call this thing. I call it the plague from China”.