Coronavirus could change the timeline for Biden's vice-presidential rollout
by Naomi Lim
| April 09, 2020 03:34 PM
The novel coronavirus has wreaked havoc on the Democratic primary calendar, raising the prospect of 2020 presumptive nominee Joe Biden going against tradition and announcing his vice presidential pick earlier this summer.
Running mates are usually revealed in the lead-up to the national conventions, but with the Democratic gathering this cycle pushed back a month to mid-August, that timeline is subject to change.
Prime Policy Group's Charlie Black, a top aide to former Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush, as well as Arizona Sen. John McCain during his 2008 White House bid, said naming a vice-presidential nominee helped drum up excitement for the convention and the ticket itself, boosting the pair with a postconfabulation bump in the polls.
The problem for Biden is he's ceded the national stage to President Trump amid the pandemic as the administration works with state and local governments to stop the spread of the respiratory disease without rampant testing or a vaccine.
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