US election campaign goes virtual as country faces coronavirus shut-down – live updates
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10.46am GMT
Misyrlena Egkolfopoulou at Bloomberg has been looking at the impact coronavirus is likely to have on the race for the White House.
It’s an added challenge for all three campaigns. With the Democratic race down to two candidates – and with Biden solidly in the lead – interest in the contest would naturally shrink somewhat. Combine that with the pandemic’s overwhelming impact on the economy and daily life, getting voters’ attention is going to be difficult – and expensive.
10.30am GMT
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.
…. Their response to H1N1 Swine Flu was a full scale disaster, with thousands dying, and nothing meaningful done to fix the testing problem, until now. The changes have been made and testing will soon happen on a very large scale basis. All Red Tape has been cut, ready to go!
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