Congressional Democrats are tanking Biden’s 2020 odds

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As every 77 year old in the country should be doing, Joe Biden is staying home. Since he all but clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, the country’s economy has crumbled thanks to the coronavirus pandemic, effectively shuttering political campaigning alongside every other industry in the country.

This shouldn’t be a problem for Biden. Even since his necessary pivot to treat the coronavirus with the seriousness it deserves, President Trump still can’t stop stoking the ire of the media and publishing tirades on Twitter. The chaos of the Trump administration in the coronavirus panic justifies the entire ethos of the Biden campaign, with the former vice president issuing mostly calm and confident videos reflecting on how the Obama administration handled Ebola and H1N1 and how the Biden administration would handle this pandemic.

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