Former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign on Wednesday canceled gatherings scheduled for Friday and next Monday in Chicago and Miami, and declared it will hold “virtual events” instead.
The campaign said it was taking “steps … to minimize health risks for staff and supporters.”
The move to a form of virtual campaigning will have a less dramatic impact on the Democratic primary than it would have had a week or two ago, when the state of the race was far less settled. “It’s going to be a lot harder to raise major dollars at big events,” Alex Conant, a Republican operative who worked for Marco Rubio’s 2016 campaign, told Yahoo News. “And Trump probably has an advantage there. Biden will likely lose out on some major dollar fundraising time.”
Story continuesThe Trump reelection campaign is currently on track to have around $400 million in cash on hand, according to a source close to the White House. The president has had a head start in raising money while Biden, until his campaign was resurrected two weeks ago in South Carolina, had only a few million dollars.
On the elections side of things, the Democratic primaries will continue, but turnout is likely to be lower due to the virus and to Biden’s significant delegate lead over Sanders.
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