{"id":1198,"date":"2020-04-15T11:27:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T10:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/comment\/?p=1198"},"modified":"2020-04-15T11:28:25","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T10:28:25","slug":"campaigning-in-a-crisis-the-race-for-the-us-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edgehill.ac.uk\/comment\/2020\/04\/15\/campaigning-in-a-crisis-the-race-for-the-us-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaigning in a crisis \u2013 the race for the US Presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How do you campaign when you can&#8217;t campaign?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In the UK the scheduled May elections were delayed for a\nyear but in the US there is the Presidential and other elections in November\nand, more trickily a series of primary contests to select candidates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Primaries (and caucuses) select delegates according to\ncandidate.&nbsp; The delegates then go to\nConventions which nominate the chosen candidate.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Normally this time of year would feel like a parade of\nnever-ending contests. Instead the coronavirus crisis has meant many primaries\nare postponed, and some have now become all postal vote affairs.&nbsp; And even though there is no real challenge to\nDonald Trump on the Republican side, and the main challenger to Joe Biden\n(Bernie Sanders) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-52219756\">has\nsuspended his campaign<\/a> on the Democrat side, the primary votes &nbsp;will &nbsp;happen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The shutdown and postponed votes however means more to the\nDemocrats than Republicans.&nbsp; Normally\nthis succession of contests would be a massive profile raising opportunity for\na challenger. &nbsp;Instead Joe Biden finds it\nan increasing struggle to stay politically relevant.&nbsp; While State Governors and Federal legislators\nhave an obvious platform, he doesn\u2019t. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biden can of course organise on line Town Hall meetings and\nhe can broadcast statements. But the logistical challenge is more easily\nsolvable than that of message and profile.&nbsp;\nIn news terms the only game in town is coronavirus and the response of\nDonald Trump.&nbsp;&nbsp; Biden is campaigning\nheavily on this, tweeting to attack previous lack of preparation, for example\nthis one from April 4&nbsp; \u201cIn January, while\nDonald Trump was downplaying COVID-19, I wrote an op-ed calling for immediate\naction to combat the growing threat. In it, I also said Trump was the worst possible\nleader to deal with a public health crisis. I stand by that statement.\u201d.&nbsp; The Democratic &nbsp;presumptive nominee&nbsp; is taking care however to accompany his\nattacks with proactive suggestions such as the <a href=\"https:\/\/joebiden.com\/the-biden-plan-to-coordinate-critical-materials-for-all-50-states-and-u-s-territories\/\">Biden\nPlan<\/a>.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is one primary date that didn\u2019t change \u2013\nWisconsin.&nbsp; Most primaries are run by the\nState so the State legislature makes the decision.&nbsp; And in this case <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/voters-experiences-in-wisconsin-amid-the-coronavirus\/\">Wisconsin\nkept its date<\/a> (7 April) with a small window of opportunity for postal\nballots to arrive back seven days later.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Democratic Party Convention, at which the Presidential\nand Vice \u2013 Presidential candidates are nominated, <a href=\"https:\/\/eu.jsonline.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2020\/04\/02\/2020-dnc-milwaukee-pushed-back-mid-august-amid-pandemic\/5111822002\/\">has\nbeen shifted back to mid- August<\/a> but even with the new date it is not at\nall clear how much of the normal Convention can take place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And of course in the Democratic Party the focus now moves even more closely to the Biden Vice-Presidential pick. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgehill.ac.uk\/study\/undergraduate\/politics\/\">Edge Hill University\u2019s politics courses<\/a> include a specialist module on US Politics. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you campaign when you can&#8217;t campaign? 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