Biden: Difficult to imagine having Democratic convention as scheduled

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden stated Tuesday he would not be stunned if the Democratic National Conference is rescheduled because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

When asked by MSNBC's Brian Williams if he might imagine the nation's prime Democrats all gathered collectively in one area 104 days from now, Biden stated it was troublesome to take action.

"It's exhausting to ascertain that," Biden stated. "We should find a way — we have been capable of do it in the midst of the Civil Warfare all of the method via to World Conflict II — have Democratic and Republican conventions and primaries and elections and still have public safety. And we're capable of do each. However the reality is it might should be totally different."

Biden has repeatedly rebuffed proposals to delay or reschedule the overall election because of the virus, whilst numerous states have pushed off their primaries to encourage social distancing. Extra than 32 states and territories have issued stay-at-home orders in the USA to curb the spread of the virus.

Talking Tuesday, Biden conceded that this election should need to include critical variations to protect the security of voters. More voters might choose to vote absentee, and he even stated it "may be virtual." He also talked about the potential of drive-in voting, akin to the drive-in testing for coronavirus that has been adopted by some states and nations to guard well being care staff.

Regardless, the former vice chairman was assured that the nation might still carry out its presidential election course of in time for November.

"There is no rationale for eliminating or delaying the election," Biden stated.

He also urged secretaries of state to start out immediately wanting into ways to make distant voting a risk. President Donald Trump rebuffed Monday a Democratic push to digitize voting, saying such efforts to increase turnout would mean "you'd never have a Republican elected on this nation once more."

Biden pushed again on these remarks as "absolutely ridiculous."

"That is about ensuring that we're capable of conduct our democracy whereas we're dealing with a pandemic," Biden stated. "There's loads of ways to do it, however we ought to be talking about it now."

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