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The Cover Story | Donald Trump's COVID-19 Diagnosis Is Forcing Him to Face His Personal—and Political—Vulnerability | | | By Molly Ball | National Political Correspondent, TIME | After the first presidential debate last week, a pro-Trump pundit named Dan Bongino appeared on Fox News to praise the President's performance. Those who found Trump's constant interruptions of Joe Biden rude, he said, just didn't understand the strategy. "Trump is an apex predator," Bongino, a former NYPD officer and failed congressional candidate, explained. "He's the lion king. Trump went out there tonight and did what Trump does. He's the shark in the ocean and he acted like it. He lost no one from his base, no one!" Trump evidently liked that description: he tweeted the clip of Bongino's remarks to his 87 million followers. It's true the President's hard-core devotees love his alpha-male act. The problem is, the rest of the voting public doesn't necessarily agree. In the days following the debate and Trump's hospitalization with COVID-19, several new national polls have shown him losing the presidential popular vote by double-digit margins. My cover story this week looks at Trump's twin medical and political crises in the context of his longtime obsession with dominance. It's part of a package exploring the consequences of his diagnosis and response to it, including Charlotte Alter's dispatch from the critical swing states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, Alice Park's analysis of Trump's medical care and how it differs from that available to regular folks, and a moving personal piece from Arpita Aneja, whose mother is one of the more than 210,000 Americans lost to the pandemic. "Don't let it dominate," Trump said of the virus as he returned to the White House on Monday against his doctors' advice. With the election less than a month away, his fate may hinge on whether a nation that has lost so many lives to COVID-19 will be inspired or repulsed by Trump's projections of strength. | Read the Story » | Share the cover story | | |
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