'It can be catastrophic': Coronavirus tanks campaign fundraising

Coronavirus is starting to drain money from the expensive world of political campaigning.

Campaigns across the country have canceled face-to-face fundraisers for the foreseeable future and are scrambling to figure out how to raise enough money to stay solvent. Big donors' stock portfolios are tanking. And small-dollar, online contributors — who have never been more important to campaigns — are facing sudden financial uncertainty and the real possibility of unemployment.

The severe economic shock from coronavirus could upend the 2020 election. And Democrats see themselves as having more to lose:...