There's a tremendous amount at stake for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris at the Democratic convention, even with the disruption of the coronavirus pandemic, writes SusanPage.
So what's a political convention for, precisely, when it falls in the midst of a pandemic?that starts Monday is still the biggest opportunity they will have before Election Day to introduce themselves, bash the other side, and outline a governing agenda. The debates in the fall, three presidential and one vice presidential, may have even more impact but will be under the control of others and on stages shared with their opponents.
published this month. Now the convention will ignite the campaign's final and most intense phase."It marks the transition to the general election." In a campaign that now stands as a referendum on President Trump, Biden has held a steady lead in national polls, now at 7.7 percentage points in the RealClearPolitics.com average. He has an edge of between six and seven points in statewide polls in the three battlegrounds that were key in putting Trump in the White House four years ago – Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
The first thing Biden wants to do, then, is nothing – that is, nothing that disrupts the campaign's current trajectory. He does that by keeping a focus on Trump in general and his handling of the pandemic in particular.
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