Trump charges into battleground states despite rising COVID-19

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Trump charges into battleground states despite rising COVID-19

PENNSYLVANIA, United States (AP) - President Donald Trump embarked yesterday on a final-week charge through nearly a dozen states ahead of the election, overlooking a surge of novel coronavirus cases in the US and a fresh outbreak in his own White House. His Democratic rival Joe Biden is holding far fewer events in an effort to demonstrate that he's taking the worsening pandemic seriously.

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