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| US election campaign goes virtual as country faces coronavirus shut-down - live updates | US election campaign goes virtual as country faces coronavirus shut-down - live updates |
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| Biden to hold ‘virtual town hall’ as president due to meet industry execs over Covid-19 response | Biden to hold ‘virtual town hall’ as president due to meet industry execs over Covid-19 response |
| YouGov and Yahoo! News conducted a poll between March 10 - 11 looking at what Americans felt about the Trump administration’s handling of coronavirus, and it doesn’t make for great reading for the president. | |
| 53 percent of the polled US adults did not have faith in the president to tell the truth about the threat of the new coronavirus. Women were less likely to trust the president than men. Newsweek has more on the poll here. | |
| It can’t help when the president makes notable errors and omissions when announcing coronavirus measures. | |
| Our Voting Rights Editor Ankita Rao has been talking to people for who it is Bernie or bust, people who will support Sanders, but will not back Biden - even against Donald Trump. | Our Voting Rights Editor Ankita Rao has been talking to people for who it is Bernie or bust, people who will support Sanders, but will not back Biden - even against Donald Trump. |
| Read it here - Bernie or Bust: the Sanders fans who will never vote for Biden | Read it here - Bernie or Bust: the Sanders fans who will never vote for Biden |
| Incidentally Ankita has been asking people to get in touch if coronavirus is changing their plans for voting in Florida next week. | Incidentally Ankita has been asking people to get in touch if coronavirus is changing their plans for voting in Florida next week. |
| Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou at Bloomberg has been looking at the impact coronavirus is likely to have on the race for the White House. | Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou at Bloomberg has been looking at the impact coronavirus is likely to have on the race for the White House. |
| Aside from the obvious reduction in hand-shaking and picking up babies for those cute pictures, the teams are going to have to get more creative digitally. | Aside from the obvious reduction in hand-shaking and picking up babies for those cute pictures, the teams are going to have to get more creative digitally. |
| Read it here - Bloomberg: Coronavirus roils 2020 race, forcing a virtual campaign season | Read it here - Bloomberg: Coronavirus roils 2020 race, forcing a virtual campaign season |
| The president is tweeting - and he is criticising the federal agency responsible for keeping the US safe from coronavirus - and of course somehow it is Barack Obama’s fault as well. He claims, without providing any evidence, that changes he has made now mean that widespread testing for coronavirus will shortly start. | The president is tweeting - and he is criticising the federal agency responsible for keeping the US safe from coronavirus - and of course somehow it is Barack Obama’s fault as well. He claims, without providing any evidence, that changes he has made now mean that widespread testing for coronavirus will shortly start. |
| There has been widespread criticism of the administration over the lack of testing - just eight tests were carried out on Tuesday. | There has been widespread criticism of the administration over the lack of testing - just eight tests were carried out on Tuesday. |
| Good morning. It is very much not politics as normal as the US continues to get to grips with the fall-out from the coronavirus outbreak, and the administration’s attempts to handle it. Colleges across the US have begun canceling and curtailing graduation ceremonies, and March Madness is off. | Good morning. It is very much not politics as normal as the US continues to get to grips with the fall-out from the coronavirus outbreak, and the administration’s attempts to handle it. Colleges across the US have begun canceling and curtailing graduation ceremonies, and March Madness is off. |
| The president will be meeting industry executives about the Covid-19 response at 1:30pm. | The president will be meeting industry executives about the Covid-19 response at 1:30pm. |
| There is a bit of voting action due at the weekend. The Northern Mariana Islands don’t take part in November’s presidential election, but they do have a Democratic caucus tomorrow. It awards six pledged delegate - and in 2016 they broke four-two in Hillary Clinton’s favour over Bernie Sanders. Joe Biden currently leads Sanders 881 to 725. | There is a bit of voting action due at the weekend. The Northern Mariana Islands don’t take part in November’s presidential election, but they do have a Democratic caucus tomorrow. It awards six pledged delegate - and in 2016 they broke four-two in Hillary Clinton’s favour over Bernie Sanders. Joe Biden currently leads Sanders 881 to 725. |
| Coronavirus is affecting the candidates’ ability to campaign in public - Joe Biden will take part in a virtual town hall in Illinois at 5pm. | Coronavirus is affecting the candidates’ ability to campaign in public - Joe Biden will take part in a virtual town hall in Illinois at 5pm. |