Pandemic creates electoral uncertainty for Trump, Democrats
By STEVE PEOPLES and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press
President Donald Trump’s reelection is facing growing headwinds less than six months before Election Day. The coronavirus has breached the White House walls. The U.S. unemployment rate is at a 90-year high. And the death toll in the U.S. is surging past 80,000, far more than the Republican president’s projections. Meanwhile, medical experts are warning of a major second wave of infections as states begin to reopen portions of their economies with Trump’s blessing. Democrat Joe Biden has political challenges of his own, but no incumbent president has faced anything like this in almost a century.