Trump Campaign Hobbled by Virus as Biden Starts to Pull Away
- Post-debate poll gives Biden a 14-point lead with 30 days left
- More than a dozen people around president contract Covid-19
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President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign has seen its candidate, campaign manager and party chairwoman all laid low by Covid-19. He is short on cash, Democrat Joe Biden is pulling away in the polls and his best hope to climb back -- the raucous rallies that fueled his 2016 win -- is on hold indefinitely as the last month of the race ticks away.
Trump is still dominating the news cycle, but for all the wrong reasons -- in the hospital, fighting the virus he sought to effectively erase from the story of his presidency as he appealed to voters for a second term.