Trump Says Midwest ‘Heated Up’ With Coronavirus Cases
- Rare admission by a president who often downplays pandemic
- He tells Nebraska rally that the U.S. is ‘turning the corner’
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday night acknowledged that coronavirus cases are rising in “certain areas” of the Midwest, a rare admission during the final week of the presidential campaign.
“Certain areas that are heated up right now,” Trump said at a rally in Omaha, Nebraska. “They’ll go down. They’ll go down very quickly. They’ll be down within two weeks, they’re figuring.”