The news US President Donald Trump has contracted Covid-19 exacerbated an already widening gap between the President and his Democratic rival Joe Biden.
The Presidential debate at the end of September confirmed the polarisation that has torn the two US parties apart during a period in which, one would hope, party politics would be set aside. Trump is not the only world leader to have contracted Covid-19. Both the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro came down with the virus. However, Trump is the only leader to be facing re-election immediately. This is likely the hardest challenge the Trump campaign has been presented with. Saxo Bank: US election biggest political risk in several decades A...
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