The Trump card: US President leans hard on first family to boost campaign

The Trump tribe are crisscrossing the United States in an effort to boost their fatherās flagging campaign in the final weeks of the election race.
President Trump held his first rally since testing negative to COVID-19 in Florida on Tuesday, telling the crowd he was āānow immuneāā.
It comes as American researchers released a report about a Nevada man who seemingly has been infected with the coronavirus twice.
āI feel so powerful Iāll walk into that audience. Iāll walk in there, Iāll kiss everyone in that audience. Iāll kiss the guys and the beautiful women and ⦠Iāll just give you a big fat kiss,ā he said.
However, after spending a week on the campaign sidelines, Mr Trump unleashed what he believes to be his most potent weapon ā his children.
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Ivanka and Donald Jr lead the Trump family in an aggressive week of campaigning, in some cases travelling to three states in one day.
But questions are being asked of their coronavirus safety protocols.
āItās pretty clear whatever changes Trump and his family will make, are minor at most,ā said University of Melbourneās US political analyst Professor George Rennie said.
āIt may make him even more reckless, and if Trump is reckless, heāll want his family to be reckless because he sees them as an extension of himself.ā
Ivanka and Don Jr are set to campaign in Georgia this week, a long-held Republican state that is beginning to look vulnerable.
Along with their brother, Eric, the three eldest children have spent weeks travelling across the US in an attempt to court voters.

The Trump children have been aggressively campaigning for the President. Photo: TND
The Presidentās eldest daughter, Ivanka, is the requested campaign surrogate and is popular with moderates and Mr Trumpās base, Professor Rennie said.
āItās true to say sheās traditionally had more appeal with moderates and I think thatās still the case, but sheās also very generally well liked by the proper Trump Republican base, which is far from moderate,ā he said.
āSheās held up as this American success story.ā
The brothers tend to be more obvious in their right-wing talking points, but at the end of the day Ivanka is the clear favourite.
āIn terms of Trumpās boys, they are more right-wing in their rhetoric than Ivanka is,ā he said.
āBut Trumpās view completely dominates the direction of the campaign. Because he sees Ivanka as the poster child, sheās the face of the campaign.ā

There are questions about President Trumpās negative test result.
Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail on Monday (US time), but doctors have raised concerns overĀ the negative test result and questioned if the President could still be infectious.
Last week, President Trump tweeted he was āimmuneā to the novel coronavirus and ācanāt give it,ā before the White House had declared the negative test results.
The tweet was flagged by Twitter, which said it contained āmisleading and potentially harmful misinformationā related to the virus.
In a press briefing, associate professor of immunology and infectious diseases at Harvard Dr Roger Shapiro, said āmild or even moderate diseaseā may be ārendered non-infectious in about 10 days just by the natural course of the illness and immune control that would be expected for most individualsā.
āHowever, people with more severe disease can remain infectious for 20 days or even longer,ā Dr Shapiro said.
The White House never made clear the severity of Mr Trumpās illness, which can influence how long a person is infectious.
Professor Rennie said it was hard to believe President Trumpās doctors when they had not been transparent about his treatment.
āEverything weāve heard goes against the advice, you remain contagious for some period, even if you have fought the virus back,ā he said.
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āWeāve seen Trump has made some minor changes. Heās started wearing masks.
āBut Trump and his family have been actively contemptuous about this virus. And contemptuous of the medical advice.ā








