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Biden: Democrats' National Convention May Have to Be Postponed

Ken Bredemeier

   Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, the likely Democratic candidate
   in November's national presidential election, says the coronavirus
   pandemic sweeping the country is likely to force significant
   alterations or postponement of the party's national nominating
   convention scheduled for July.

   The Democratic and Republican national conventions are a quadrennial
   showpiece of American democracy, but Biden told MSNBC late Tuesday that
   it is "hard to envision" the Democratic convention set for mid-July in
   the Midwestern city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, occurring as scheduled.

   The Republican convention is planned for August in Charlotte in the
   Atlantic coastal state of North Carolina.

   "We should listen to the scientists" on whether it would be safe come
   mid-July to have several thousand Democrats and hundreds of media
   representatives crammed in close proximity to each other at the Fiserv
   Forum, a basketball arena, Biden told the news channel.

   Under current restrictions, such a gathering would not be possible.
   

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