“It’s a disaster for the president’s campaign,” a Republican operative said Friday. “He’s literally not going to be able to do anything but watch cable news all day and tweet.”

He was taken to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Friday afternoon, where he will stay for a few days and undergo tests. White House physician Sean Conley wrote that Trump is being evaluated by a team of experts, “and together, we’ll be making recommendations to the president and first lady in regards to next best steps.” He had been quiet on social media all day before posting a short video before heading to the hospital.

In interviews with more than a dozen Republican strategists, the consensus forecast for the Nov. 3 election turned overwhelmingly bleak after the news of Trump’s diagnosis broke. Voters are largely dissatisfied with Trump’s response to the pandemic, with him having frequently downplayed its severity.

“My prognosis is 32 days to live. We’re cooked,” a GOP strategist said. Another Republican insider who counsels GOP congressional candidates said: “Brace for impact.”

Trump testing positive for COVID-19 could signal to voters that the pandemic is a growing risk to their health, Republicans say, which is likely to push voters toward Biden, who regularly leads the president by double digits in public surveys on the question of who would better handle the coronavirus.

After his diagnosis, Trump wiped his Friday schedule clean, with the exception of a 12:15 p.m. call with governors about the pandemic. He did not end up participating, and Vice President Mike Pence, who has tested negative, took Trump’s place.

Trump resumed in-person campaign rallies in June, both indoors and outdoors, without requiring people to wear masks at all times. The Trump campaign announced Friday it would cancel rallies in key battleground states such as Florida and Arizona, depriving the campaign of its best chance to boost voter turnout.

“If there was a book to be written that was the opposite of catching a break … or making wise decisions, Trump’s writing it right now,” said a Republican strategist in Ohio, a toss-up state the president won easily four years ago. A second GOP operative in the Midwest added: “Gone are the rallies and aggressive campaigning in battleground states to make up for the president’s cash crunch.”

At Tuesday’s presidential debate, the first of three, Trump mocked Biden for his frequent use of face masks.

“I wear a mask when needed,” Trump said Tuesday. “I don’t wear masks like him. Every time you see him, he’s got a mask. He could be speaking 200 feet away from it. He shows up with the biggest mask I’ve ever seen.”

Biden, meanwhile, will step out on to the campaign trail. He will fly to Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Friday, where he was slated to deliver an in-person address on the economy and attend a get-out-the-vote event in the critical battleground state before logging on to a virtual fundraiser. Biden updated his itinerary after he was delayed Friday morning while he waited for his own test results, which came back negative.

The Biden campaign will temporarily remove negative ads in the wake of Trump’s diagnosis. The Democratic candidate said Friday, “This cannot be a partisan moment. It must be an American moment. We have to come together as a nation.”

The day following the debate, Biden made seven campaign stops on his train tour across western Pennsylvania and Ohio.

Trump is undergoing an experimental treatment that is still undergoing trials. The White House described it as a polyclonal antibody cocktail not yet available to most people in the United States. He has also taken “zinc, vitamin D, famotidine, melatonin, and a daily aspirin,” Conley said.

Several others have tested positive for the coronavirus as well following Trump’s Supreme Court nomination in the Rose Garden less than a week ago on Saturday. University of Notre Dame President John Jenkins has tested positive after attending the ceremony without wearing a face mask. Sen. Mike Lee, a Utah Republican, has also tested positive following the Saturday ceremony. He met with nominee Amy Coney Barrett on Tuesday and went on to attend committee meetings where he may have exposed other members of Congress. Three journalists who work in the White House, as well as a White House staffer, have also tested positive for COVID-19.

To date, more than 7.3 million coronavirus cases and over 208,000 deaths have been confirmed in the U.S.

The Michigan Supreme Court struck down months of executive orders by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus, saying she illegally drew authority from a 1945 law that does not apply, the Associated Press reported. The court said the law was an “unlawful delegation of legislative power to the executive branch in violation of the Michigan Constitution.”

Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday blasted House Republicans for blocking a standalone bill that extends the Payroll Support Program for the airline industry. “Democrats offer legislation to save lives and livelihoods, only to be met by more Republican obstruction. Either Republicans are not serious about meeting the staggering health and economic challenge facing our nation, or they do not care.”

The yet-to-be-released James Bond film No Time to Die has delayed its release until April 2021, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday. The film’s producers said they will begin its rollout April 2 “in order to be seen by a worldwide theatrical audience.”