Trump Seeks Revival After Pandemic Undercuts Bid for Second Term
- Saddled with coronavirus outbreak, president trails Biden
- ‘We were sailing’ before virus, Trump laments on eve of RNC
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Donald Trump’s re-nomination for president this week was supposed to be the celebration of what he considers a storybook political career.
With a booming U.S. economy at his back, the president would bask in the adulation of thousands of supporters at the Republican National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, as he contemplated a glide path to re-election.