2020 Race: Donald Trump tells Florida rally I’ll give all you a big fat kiss

Donald Trump roars back onto the campaign trail with plans to hold multiple rallies a day in the weeks ahead in a last-ditch push.

Donald Trump has roared back onto the campaign trail with plans to hold multiple rallies a day in the weeks ahead in a last-ditch push to reverse the growing lead of his Democrat opponent Joe Biden.

The president held his first campaign rally since his recovery from the coronavirus on Tuesday (AEDT), telling thousands of supporters in central Florida: “I feel so powerful, I’ll kiss everyone in the audience … I’ll give you a big fat kiss.”

It came as the president ordered his advisers to dramatically expand his campaign schedule to allow him to criss-cross the country with multiple rallies despite only recently recovering from COVID-19.

Trump supporters at his campaign rally in Sanford, Florida. Picture: AFP.

Trump senior adviser Jason Miller said Mr Trump was “getting on my case for not having enough rallies and public events scheduled.” He said that in the “home stretch” of the campaign, the president wanted to hold “at least in the short term, two to three events a day.”

The push comes after the president’s physician Sean Conley said Mr Trump had now tested negative for COVID-19 on consecutive days, reaffirming his early claim that the president “is not infectious to others.”

But Mr Trump’s push to hit the campaign trail after a week recovering from the virus, comes at a perilous time in his campaign, with Mr Biden extending his already large lead.

The former Vice President now leads Mr Trump nationally by 10.2 points, his largest advantage since June 23. The 77-year-old challenger has also slightly increased his lead in battleground states, leading by 7.1 points in Pennsylvania, 7 points in Michigan, 6.1 points in Wisconsin and 3.7 points in Florida.

The Trump campaign is hoping that a last minute blitz by the president, coupled with the confirmation hearings for Mr Trump’s conservative Supreme Court nominee Judge Amy Barrett, will spark a comeback in the polls.

Mr Trump’s final push across the nation comes at a time when the coronavirus is making a resurgence, with infections rising in 37 states. Voters, by a rough two-to-one margin, disapprove of the president’s handling of the pandemic, making it the biggest obstacle for the president in his re-election bid.

Donald Trump disembarks from Air Force One in Sanford, Florida. Picture: AFP.

Mr Trump is pushing to highlight issues where he believes he enjoys greater support, including the economy, law and order and the Supreme Court.

His opponent, Mr Biden, campaigning in the swing state of Ohio, criticised Mr Trump’s behaviour in holding large rallies again.

Mr Biden said the president’s “reckless personal conduct since his diagnosis has been unconscionable. The longer Donald Trump is president, the more reckless he seems to get,” he said.

“President Trump comes to Sanford bringing nothing but reckless behaviour, divisive rhetoric, and fear mongering,” Mr Biden. “But, equally dangerous is what he fails to bring: no plan to get this virus that has taken the lives of over 15,000 Floridians under control.”

Mr Trump told the crowd in Florida that Mr Biden would be a high taxing president dominated by the left of his party

“Joe Biden is also owned by the radical globalists … who shipped away your jobs … he has handled control to the socialists, the Marxists, the left wing – if he wins the radical left will be running the country,’ he said.

The president disputed the polls, claiming they were fake and that, just like in 2016, they would be proven wrong again.

“Everything I hear we are winning by a lot,’ he said. “22 days from now we are going to win this state, we are going to win four more years in the White House, we are going to make this country greater than it had ever been before,’ he said.

Mr Trump accused Mr Biden of wanting to “pack” the Supreme Court to dilute the impact of the three conservative judges he has appointed during his first term. “They are going to destroy our us Supreme Court,” he said.

Before the rally, Mr Trump attacked Mr Biden for his low key virus-conscious campaign which does not include rallies.

Almost nobody showed up to the Sleepy Joe Biden “Rally” in Ohio. The reporting and polls are a Media Con Job - Fake News. We have far more support and enthusiasm than even in 2016. November 3rd. will be a great day for America!!! #MAGA

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 12, 2020

“Almost nobody showed up to the Sleepy Joe Biden ‘Rally’ in Ohio. The reporting and polls are a Media Con Job – Fake News. We have far more support and enthusiasm than even in 2016. November 3rd. will be a great day for America!!!,” he tweeted.

(Cameron Stewart is also US Contributor for Sky News Australia)