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Campaign Frozen<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Joe Biden is now labeled as the \u201capparent\u201d Democratic nominee for President in 2020.  There are a lot of delegates yet to be chosen.  Worse, there are a lot of elections that no one knows how to actually conduct.  We already are hearing of voters who got COVID-19 voting in the Wisconsin primary.  We know, inevitably, someone will die because the voters of Wisconsin were forced to line up and vote.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By the way, the Facebook \u201cmeme\u201d claiming that if people can lineup to get into Wal-Mart then they should be willing to line up to vote, is bogus.  Lining up to vote, to exercise your citizenship right as an American, should not be a life threatening choice.  Lining up to get into Wal-Mart may well be a dangerous choice today, but the difference is you don\u2019t HAVE to go to Wal-Mart.  There are always other ways, including online shopping and Wal-Mart\u2019s Grocery Pickup<\/a> that avoids the line, the crowd, and the risk of getting sick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But there\u2019s no such thing as a \u201cvoting\u201d pickup in Wisconsin.  If you don\u2019t meet the \u201crequirement\u201d for absentee voting, you either show, or don\u2019t vote.  Of course, people could lie to get an absentee ballot, but voting fraud shouldn\u2019t be the only reasonable choice a citizen can make to cast their ballot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So let\u2019s get back to Joe Biden\u2019s problem.  He\u2019s going to be the nominee, but the elections may not be held to gather the 1991 delegates to win.  Biden currently has 1305.  There will be more elections; Ohio will close its March 17th<\/sup> vote on April 28th<\/sup> and those delegates will be added.  But other states may never get around to having a primary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Virtual Balloons<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

And while the Convention itself has moved from July until August, there isn\u2019t even an actual date set for the event.\u00a0\u00a0Will it really happen in Milwaukee, or just be a giant \u201cZoom\u201d event.\u00a0\u00a0And what about all of the free publicity a convention offers a candidate challenging the sitting President?\u00a0\u00a0Will Biden get the rousing endorsement speech we all expect from Barack Obama, or will it be a home televised event from the Obama basement?\u00a0\u00a0Will Biden himself ever get to make that final acceptance speech on a podium to applause and red, white and blue balloons, or will he speak from his home in Delaware?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of this underlines Biden\u2019s biggest issue:\u00a0\u00a0how to campaign in a COVID-19 world.\u00a0\u00a0I\u2019ve been listening to MSNBC, a Biden friendly zone, for five hours this morning (while I did school work).\u00a0\u00a0For five hours it\u2019s been COVID-19.\u00a0\u00a0There must be NO other news; the virus news has literally taken up all of the oxygen in the air.\u00a0\u00a0Biden\u2019s name was not mentioned.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other Democrats have offices and roles that give them more visibility than the presumptive nominee.   New York Governor Cuomo, leading the nation\u2019s greatest struggle against the virus, get\u2019s airtime every day.  Chuck Schumer, Senator Minority Leader comments on legislation.  Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House, is highly visible with the Democratic agenda.  But Biden is able to only push out some social media from Delaware; little more is getting out in \u201cthe world\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No Campaign Trail<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

And even as some states \u201copen\u201d it\u2019s not likely that Biden will be able to resume the campaign trail.  Besides, why would Democrats risk Biden\u2019s health to COVID-19?  Just because the Governors of Georgia and South Carolina are willing to risk their state\u2019s population, Democrats shouldn\u2019t put Biden on the block.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So in our brave new COVID-19 world, how does a man run for President?  And even if the virus lifts in the summer, what happens to campaign momentum if, as the scientists predict, the virus re-emerges in the fall?  The President will still have his \u201cbully pulpit\u201d but will the Democratic nominee have a podium?  And finally, how far can a candidate go running against a President embroiled in a national crisis of the first order?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All of these questions are important, if the question of the election is Trump versus Biden.\u00a0\u00a0That\u2019s traditional campaign thought, and what we all expect will happen.\u00a0\u00a0But to upset that traditional paradigm, the 2020 election may not be the man-to-man campaign that both Biden and Trump want.\u00a0\u00a0It\u2019s just as likely to simply be a test of Trump, the popular evaluation of his four years, and particularly the last year. It will by about his competency as President.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And if that\u2019s the case, then Joe Biden should stay low.  He\u2019s got it in the bag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Campaign Frozen Joe Biden is now labeled as the \u201capparent\u201d Democratic nominee for President in 2020.  There are a lot of delegates yet to be chosen.  Worse, there are a lot of elections that no one knows how to actually conduct.  We already are hearing of voters who got COVID-19 voting in the Wisconsin primary.  We know, inevitably, someone … Continue reading “Biden’s Dilemma”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nBiden's Dilemma : Our America - Essays on Politics and American Life<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In a closed for virus United States, Joe Biden can't campaign for President. 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