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    The Coronavirus Killed the Policy Primary

    The coronavirus has forced the Democrats to change how they talk about policy.
    by Edward-Isaac Dovere Apr 04, 2020 5 minutes
    Source: Andrea Crisante / Kolonko / Shutterstock / Paul Spella / The Atlantic

    What a rollout it was going to be. Joe Biden would stand next to former Representative Gabby Giffords at a big rally in Miami the Monday before the Florida primary. They’d rail against gun violence, criticize Bernie Sanders, and get a head start on taking it to Donald Trump in November. It was just what the gun-control movement needed: a big splashy event that would be all over local, state, and national news.

    The rally, originally scheduled for March 16, never happened.

    Instead, Giffords endorsed Biden in a video on Twitter. The thousands of retweets were nice. But they weren’t what the gun-control movement had been hoping for. Did you know the endorsement happened? If you did, did you care?

    Guns. Climate change. Immigration reform. Financial reform. Education reform. Criminal-justice reform. Spending proposals. Tax proposals. The Democratic presidential race was the thickest

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