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Biden says coronavirus is an opportunity for structural change

Republicans will fight anything that allows greater numbers of people voting but what happened in WI was crazy. Big cities had their polling stations reduced to a fraction while voters essentially had to choose risking their lives to vote. That shouldn’t have happened. Also an obvious issue is Congress being able to vote during situations like this. Plus high speed internet for all needs to be an actual priority.

He stopped short, however, of endorsing any new policy positions. Biden has opposed the types of big structural changes presented by Sanders, including Medicare-for-all and several key economic solutions. For Sanders’s part, he has used the pandemic to put forward a broad economic agenda, including a universal basic income of $2,000 per month until the economic crisis is over.

Still, it’s a shift to see Biden talking about structural change in his campaign. What’s become increasingly clear over the past several weeks is that returning to normal may not be possible, and Democrats may end up needing someone more than a normalcy candidate this fall.