A 3,000-person audience cheered for President Trump, who spoke for 45 minutes and tossed hats into the approving crowd. Two days later, the Minnesotans who were there are replaying the event in their heads with one new and gut-wrenching piece of information: Mr. Trump is infected with the coronavirus. They are feeling the reverberations in Minnesota, where Mr. Trump had attended a private fund-raiser near the Twin Cities, followed by the large rally in Duluth, before heading back to Washington. In the front row of the event in Duluth, Cal Warwas, 44, an employee at a Minnesota mine, watched Mr. Trump with a group of friends. Mr. Trump seemed happy to be there, he recalled, unbothered by the cold temperatures in his navy overcoat, even as Mr. Warwas — a hardy resident of the state’s northern Iron Range — felt his own teeth chattering.

Source: New York Times October 03, 2020 09:00 UTC