It may seem like civilization is on pause, but the 2020 Democratic presidential primary is still ongoing, particularly for a state that Hillary Clinton is infamous for never visiting in 2016, Wisconsin.
In the month of March, over a dozen states announced that they were postponing their primaries due to the Coronavirus outbreak. The Wisconsin government long resisted doing the same and planned to have theirs on April 7 until Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers issued an executive order postponing their primary until June 9. But shortly thereafter, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled against Evers. The U.S. Supreme Court agreed. Regardless, even with all these primary delays, Joe Biden still sits at a comfortable delegate lead over Bernie Sanders.
In addition to that, Bernie Sanders has been hesitant to step aside and allow the Democratic party to do something it’s been struggling with: unifying. Yet, like virtually everyone during the global pandemic, Biden, Bernie, and their respective campaigns are stuck in limbo. Everything has switched from in-person to digital livestreams and podcasts.
In the same token, President Trump is slightly handicapped as well. Instead of holding rallies with tens of thousands of supporters in arenas around the country, he’s holding daily press briefings at the White House on the coronavirus pandemic.
Despite this, Trump posted his first-ever positive approval rating among all adults in an ABC News/Washington Post poll taken in late March.
So, while it seems like it’ll be Trump vs. Biden in November, the pandemic has created a new, but familiar star in the Democratic party: New York Governor Andrew Cuomo.
When he’s not dunking on his brother, Chris Cuomo of CNN, on air, he’s steering the Empire State through the COVID-19 storm. New York has more coronavirus cases than any state in the country.
While the likelihood of Cuomo running for president this late in the game seems slim, it’d be hard to fathom the Democratic Party not lamenting about what could have been.
