而总统唐纳德·特朗普在他和他的几名高级助手被诊断患有冠状病毒过去一周，他的一名高级顾问拒绝承认他的竞选活动安全措施松懈，并试图淡化周日的民意调查，该调查显示，大多数美国人认为总统没有采取适当的个人预防措施。
在美国广播公司的“本周”节目中，特朗普的竞选高级顾问杰森·米勒回避了为什么的问题周四在贝德明斯特的筹款活动在白宫得知高级顾问霍普·希克斯的艾滋病检测呈阳性后，新泽西州的抗议活动并没有取消新冠肺炎(新型冠状病毒肺炎)并反驳了这场运动没有认真对待病毒的观点，尽管举行了室内活动，也不要求戴口罩。
undefined"在这些集会上，对面具和社交距离漫不经心的态度难道不是一个错误吗?"美国广播公司首席新闻主播乔治·斯特凡诺普洛斯问道。“往前走会变吗?”
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2020年9月30日，明尼苏达州德卢斯，唐纳德·特朗普总统在德卢斯国际机场的竞选集会上发表讲话后，向支持者投掷帽子。
“我会反驳这一点，并说它一点也不傲慢。我们对此非常重视。这就是为什么我们让每个人来参加集会或活动——我们给他们一个面具。我们检查他们的体温，”米勒说，尽管周三在明尼苏达州的一次活动中，数百名与会者被看到没有戴面罩，而希克斯正在出现症状。
“我不能说的是，因为我不是白宫行动的一部分，我也不是白宫医疗部门的一部分，确切的是——他花了多少时间和霍普在一起，以及在这些事情的附近，”他在早些时候的采访中说，当被问及是否决定推进周四的筹款活动时。
米勒本人报告说，尽管他出席了与特朗普的白宫辩论准备会议，但他的病毒检测呈阴性。在这些会议上，九名参与者中有五人随后获得了阳性结果。
在“本周”节目中，尽管特朗普个人的竞选努力在他生病期间停止了，但米勒继续将民主党提名人乔·拜登描绘成对病毒过于谨慎。
“我想说，关于乔·拜登，我认为他经常把面具当成道具，”米勒谈到这位前副总统时说，他最近的冠状病毒检测都呈阴性。“面具很重要，但即使他——他可能离最近的人有20、30英尺远，而且还戴着面具。这不会改变任何事情。”
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2020年10月3日，唐纳德·特朗普总统的医生肖恩·康利博士在马里兰州贝塞斯达的沃尔特·里德国家军事医学中心向记者介绍情况。特朗普在感染冠状病毒后住进了医院。
为了响应新的美国广播公司新闻/益普索民意调查米勒谈到白宫的公共卫生回应时说，近四分之三的美国人表示，他们认为特朗普没有“足够认真地对待感染病毒的风险”，也没有“在涉及到他的个人健康时采取适当的预防措施”。他辩称，特朗普批评的中国旅行禁令和购买呼吸机的努力构成了“一个普通的时刻”，而且“他不能藏在地下室”——指的是拜登在他特拉华州的家里举行了虚拟活动。
斯特凡诺普洛斯回答说:“总统不得不正面面对，但他不必在人们没有社交距离、没有戴面具的地方举行集会。”“他不必嘲笑前副总统乔·拜登戴着面具和戴着面具的记者。他不需要戴着面具继续参加一个又一个的活动。”
在周二的辩论中，特朗普夸张地嘲笑这位前副总统，称拜登戴着“我见过的最大的面具”，即使是在离他的观众“200英尺”的时候。
米勒回答说，他描述了保护总统的安全协议，包括体温检查、社交距离和分发口罩——尽管美国国家过敏和传染病研究所主任安东尼·福奇博士(Anthony Fauci)表示，白宫和美国国立卫生研究院已经放弃了将体温检查作为筛查工具，因为它们不是筛查感染的可靠方法。斯特凡诺普洛斯指出，口罩通常不会在活动中佩戴，包括上周末在白宫玫瑰园的集会上，特朗普宣布最高法院提名艾米·科尼·巴雷特。几位出席公告的人坐在一起，与他人互动，包括参议员李政颖、犹他州共和党人、美国广播公司新闻撰稿人和前新泽西州州长克里斯·克里斯蒂和前总统顾问凯莱恩·康威的检测结果呈阳性。
谈到总统竞选的最后一个月，米勒对最近的全国民意调查不屑一顾，包括一个全国广播公司/华尔街日报调查显示特朗普以两位数落后于拜登，并将竞选活动描绘为在几个摇摆州处于强势地位。
“当我们看到战场州，你需要达到270个，我们对我们的定位感觉很好，”他说。“特别是，我认为我们在西部的实力，无论是亚利桑那州还是内华达州，看起来都非常不错。在佛罗里达州，我们继续保持良好的势头……我们的领先优势正在扩大，正如我们在北卡罗来纳州和佐治亚州从内部数据中看到的那样。”
Trump adviser defends campaign virus precautions despite packed events, maskless attendees
While PresidentDonald Trumpremains hospitalized after he and several of his top aides were diagnosed with thecoronavirusin the past week, one of his senior advisers refused to acknowledge his campaign's lax safety measures and attempted to downplay polling Sunday that shows most Americans don't think the president took the proper personal precautions.
On ABC's "This Week," Trump campaign senior adviser Jason Miller dodged questions about whyThursday's fundraiser in Bedminster, New Jersey, was not canceled after the White House learned that senior counselor Hope Hicks had tested positive forCOVID-19, and pushed back against the notion that the campaign hasn't taken the virus seriously -- despite holding indoor events and not requiring facemasks.
"Hasn't the cavalier approach to masks and social distancing at these rallies been a mistake?" ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos asked. "Will it change going forward?"
President Donald Trump throws hats to supporters after speaking at a campaign rally at Duluth International Airport, Sept. 30, 2020, in Duluth, Minn.
"I'll push back on that and say it hasn't been cavalier at all. We take it very seriously. It's why we give everyone coming to rallies or to events -- we give them a mask. We check their temperature," said Miller, even as hundreds of attendees were seen without face-coverings at a Minnesota event Wednesday, just as Hicks was developing symptoms.
"What I can't speak to, since I'm not part of White House operations, I'm not part of the White House medical unit, is the exact -- how much time he was spending with Hope and in the proximity for these things," he stated earlier in the interview, when questioned about the decision to press forward with Thursday's fundraiser.
Miller himself reported that he tested negative for the virus, despite being present for White House debate preparation sessions with Trump, in which five of the nine participants have subsequently received positive results.
On "This Week," even as Trump's personal campaign efforts had ground to a halt during his illness, Miller continued to portray Democratic nominee Joe Biden as being overly cautious regarding the virus.
"I'd say that with regard to Joe Biden I think too often he's used the mask as a prop," Miller said of the former vice president, whose most recent coronavirus tests have all come back negative. "A mask is very important, but even if he's -- he could be 20, 30 feet away from the nearest person, and still have the mask on. That's not going to change anything that's out there."
In response to a newABC News/Ipsos poll, showing nearly three in four Americans said they thought Trump did not take the "risk of contracting the virus seriously enough," nor "the appropriate precautions when it came to his personal health," Miller pivoted to the White House's public health response. He argued Trump's criticized China travel ban and efforts to procure ventilators constituted a "a general-in-the-field-type moment," and that "he couldn't stay hidden in his basement" -- a reference to Biden who has held virtual events from his Delaware home.
"The president had to take it head-on, but he didn't have to hold rallies where people did not social distance, did not wear masks," Stephanopoulos responded. "He didn't have to mock former Vice President Joe Biden for wearing a mask and reporters who wore masks. He didn't have to continue to go to event after event without wearing a mask."
At Tuesday's debate, Trump hyperbolically taunted the former vice president, stating that Biden wears "the biggest mask I've ever seen," even when "200 feet away" from his audiences.
Miller answered by describing the safety protocols in place to protect the president, including temperature checks, social distancing and the handing out of masks -- despite Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, saying that the White House and the National Institutes of Health have abandoned temperature checks as a screening tool given they are not a reliable method to screen for infection. Stephanopoulos noted that masks are often not worn at events, including at the White House Rose Garden gathering last weekend in which Trump announced the Supreme Court nomination of Amy Coney Barrett. Several attendees at the announcement who were seated and interacting in close proximity to others, including Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, ABC News contributor and former New Jersey Gov.Chris Christie, and former counselor to the president Kellyanne Conway, have since tested positive.
Turning to the final month of the presidential race, Miller shrugged off recent national polling, including anNBC/Wall Street Journal survey, showing Trump trailing Biden by double-digits and portrayed the campaign as in a strong position in several swing states.
"As we look at the battleground states, what you need to get to 270, we feel very good about our positioning," he said. "In particular, I think our strength out west, both with Arizona and Nevada, is looking very good. In Florida we continue to look good … our lead is growing, as we see, in North Carolina and Georgia, from internal numbers."
