With just a month left until the November 3 US presidential election, contracting the virus could have politically positive or negative consequences for President Donald Trump.
These will, of course, be contingent on how severe the president’s illness becomes. But we should not count him out and Biden in just yet.
Here are the ways the diagnosis could swing the election either way for Trump.
Donald Trump and Covid-19: how might this affect his chances of re-election?
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With just a month left until the November 3 US presidential election, contracting the virus could have politically positive or negative consequences for President Donald Trump.
These will, of course, be contingent on how severe the president’s illness becomes. But we should not count him out and Biden in just yet.
Here are the ways the diagnosis could swing the election either way for Trump.
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Positive
There are also potential political advantages in Trump’s Covid diagnosis.
Again, we can only begin to properly estimate the political ramifications of Trump’s Covid-19 diagnosis when we know his prognosis. It is another element of uncertainty in this strangest and most uncertain of election years.
*Lynch is an associate professor in American Politics at the University of Melbourne. This article was originally published by The Conversation Africa.
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