Coronavirus could impact GOP primaries, too

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Republican candidates now have political skin in the game amid the delay of several primary voting days due to the coronovirus outbreak.

Republican officials over the weekend moved back Democratic presidential primary dates in Louisiana and Georgia. Though done in consultation with Louisiana’s Democratic governor and the Georgia Democratic Party chairwoman, the moves still aroused suspicions among some Democrats that the delays were aimed at lengthening the time it would take presumptive nominee Joe Biden to win enough delegates to claim victory.

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