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Trump Making Campaign Stops During Biden's Convention Week

Ken Bredemeier

   WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump iscampaigning in key
   battleground election states and blanketing many Americans' computer
   screens with his political ads duringformer Vice President Joe Biden's
   Democratic convention week.

   Trump is visiting four states that could prove crucial for his chances
   to win a second four-year term in the White House, starting Monday with
   stops in the midwestern cities of Mankato, Minnesota and Oshkosh,
   Wisconsin.

   Then he is flying to the southwestern city of Yuma, Arizona on Tuesday
   and to near Biden's boyhood home in the northeastern city of Scranton,
   Pennsylvania on Thursday, the same day Biden makes his presidential
   nomination acceptance speech to oppose Trump in the Nov. 3 national
   election.

   In his successful 2016 campaign for the White House, Trump reveled in
   the cheers from sign-waving supporters at large public rallies. But
   both the Trump and Biden public campaigns have been sharply curtailed
   this year by the coronavirus pandemic and the need to keep their
   adherents socially distanced from each other.

   Trump attempted to stage an arena-sized rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma in
   June, but the crowd that showed up was far short of Trump campaign
   expectations. His swing through the four states this week reflects the
   new reality of downsized events that are the antithesis of U.S.
   presidential campaigns of yesteryears.

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