Jeanette Núñez ‘would have felt comfortable’ in SUV with sick Donald Trump
Jeanette Núñez.

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Lt. Governor would have ridden with virus-positive President to greet well-wishers.

With President Donald Trump still recovering from COVID-19, the state’s Lieutenant Governor offered a unique vote of confidence in his recovery.

Lt. Gov. Jeanette Núñez said that she “would have felt comfortable” in the same car Sunday with Trump, who controversially left his hospital suite to greet well-wishers inside a black Suburban with rolled-up windows.

The President, who tested positive Thursday night and was hospitalized less than 24 hours, has been working to project an image of vitality while hospitalized.

Núñez told reporters on a press call Monday that the decision by the President was made “in consultation with medical personnel. I don’t think the medical personnel would have allowed it if had they felt there was an imminent threat in that car.”

“Yes, I would have felt comfortable,” Núñez said.

The comments came during a press call organized by the Trump campaign Monday ahead of Democrat Joe Biden‘s Sunshine State swing in which Nunez and state Senator Joe Gruters, the chair of the Republican Party of Florida, contended Biden’s election would usher in a full complement of far-left policy priorities.

Núñez contrasted Biden’s record, including what she vowed would be renewed concessions to Cuba’s communist regime, with that of the President.

Gruters noted, among other assertions, that “dangerous rhetoric” from Biden and Kamala Harris threatens to undermine vaccine development.

The press call came at a time of increased urgency for the campaign, with fundraising faltering, Trump recovering from the virus, and polls, such as the latest from the Florida Chamber, showing evidence of a Biden break as ballots are coming back.

The Trump campaign had to postpone weekend events, including an in-person presidential show up in Sanford and visits to multiple cities Saturday from the President’s namesake son.

Meanwhile, the Biden campaign, fueled by home stretch fundraising from donors big and small, is more visible on television. Including the former Vice President’s own visit Monday.

Though Trump “can’t wait to get on the campaign trail,” as one surrogate on the call said, that return ultimately is not imminent, placing the onus of messaging on surrogates down the stretch.

Núñez is confident the President, a “relentless fighter,” will be “joining us in one shape, form, or fashion soon,” after a “decision in consultation with his medical team.”

And she “wouldn’t be surprised if the First Family or others spends a lot of time in Florida.”

Regarding mask-wearing, seemingly optional at the President’s political events through the spring or summer, Núñez predicted the status quo.

“I don’t know that there’s going to be a change in strategy,” she contended.

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. He writes for the New York Post and National Review also, with previous work in the American Conservative and Washington Times and a 15+ year run as a columnist in Folio Weekly. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


7 comments

  • Frankie M.

    October 5, 2020 at 12:41 pm

    The wheels are turning but the hamster’s dead.

  • S B ANTHONY

    October 5, 2020 at 1:22 pm

    Nunez. Another idiot. They’re multiplying exponentially.

  • Sonja Fitch

    October 5, 2020 at 2:27 pm

    Nunez is just another goptrump cult sociopath!

  • James Robert Miles

    October 5, 2020 at 3:34 pm

    Ain’t she sweet? Please, spread the virus everywhere and do us all a favor!!

  • DisplacedCTYankee

    October 6, 2020 at 10:41 am

    Too bad she wasn’t invited. All aboard the Covid Car!

  • Kenneth Chambers

    October 6, 2020 at 11:11 am

    Not wearing a mask is not strategy, it’s stupidity.

  • Tjb

    October 6, 2020 at 11:49 am

    Does she have a death wish?

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