We don't know where the coronavirus outbreak is headed. But here are five ways it could potentially impact the 2020 election
Our president, in sickness and health. Photo: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg via Getty Images Donald Trump is not known for downplaying foreign threats. And yet, as the Wuhan coronavirus triggered quarantines throughout China, moved into South Korea, Italy, the United States, and at least 36 other countries — while throttling global supply chains and depressing foreign markets — the fearmonger-in-chief remained sanguine.
So while no one can tell you where the COVID-19 outbreak is headed — or whether Trump’s fears about its political implications will prove prescient — here are five ways the virus could potentially impact the 2020 election: Some early analyses of the economic threat posed by COVID-19 found comfort in the precedents set by the 2003 SARS outbreak . In that instance, U.S. financial markets weathered the six-month outbreak, and then rode a spike of catch-up growth after the epidemic abated. But the SARS precedent is an unreliable guide for the present crisis in multiple respects.
China’s heavy-handed quarantine measures appear to have been somewhat effective. New cases in the country are declining. But it’s not clear whether this trend will survive the resumption of business as usual, which the Chinese authorities are understandably anxious to commence. Meanwhile, COVID-19’s arrival in Milan — a financial hub and tourist haven frequented by border-hopping E.U. elites — threatens to hasten the its ascent to the status of an official global pandemic.
Thus, it is not difficult then to see how COVID-19 could make the Trump campaign into one of its most famous victims. Especially since: Meanwhile, in testimony before the Senate, Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf revealed that he knows less about the Wuhan coronavirus than anyone who has read two articles about it.
Photo: Javier Zarracina/Vox 4) The pandemic could lend credence to Trump’s anti-globalist worldview. As the Council on Foreign Relations warns:
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