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An 18-minute guide to how Coronavirus could affect November’s US elections:
`1:27 NEW RULES
“The first effect will be on the terms on which the election will be fought. Coronavirus has trashed the economy. Part of Trump’s hope, if he has one, is that this has sent the normal rules out the window.”
5:21 THE HANDLING OF THE CRISIS
“Trump will need to convince enough Americans that he lived up to the moment of terrible crisis when it found him. Joe Biden has the task of presenting a contrasting model of how a President should conduct himself.”
12:12 THE KEY QUESTIONS
“Do most voters think Donald Trump did a good enough job trying to minimize the pain the Americans are feeling? Do they think that the Government handled this well or poorly? If poorly, do they accept Trump’s argumenta that other people and institutions are to blame?”
