Coronavirus crisis scrambles 2020 political calculus

Posted on AllSides April 1st, 2020
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The coronavirus pandemic has upended the normal political calculus for the 2020 elections, and party leaders are trying to best calibrate their political messages on the crisis heading into November.

The U.S. economy will take a big hit this year, something that would usually be a disaster for an incumbent president.

Goldman Sachs, a leading investment firm, predicted in a forecast released Tuesday that unemployment could reach 15 percent in the second quarter and the gross domestic product could fall as much as 34 percent on an annualized rate.

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