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There will be no balloons. There will be tens of thousands of fans of the candidate in a sports hall. There will be no ovations . Covid-19 has killed off the biggest shows in the world: rock tours, summer festivals, and, now, party conventions in the United States. It is the no-campaign of 2020, which tonight begins informally with the Convention of the Democratic Party. A virtual Convention, after the party decided to cancel all live events scheduled in the city of Milwaukee, in the crucial state of Wisconsin.

The choice of Milwaukee had not been accidental. In 2016, for the first time in 32 years, that state voted for a Republican candidate . Trump won by just 22,748 votes, 0.17% of the total counted, due to the abstention of African Americans from the state and the transfer of votes from the white working class. So, by electing him for 2020, the Democratic Party was trying to reactivate its bases in the territory. It is the same criterion that the Republicans had followed, when opting for North Carolina , a southern state in which they have more and more problems to maintain their preeminence , for their Convention, which is held next week.

The fact that there is no Convention in a city like Milwaukee, which is critical to what will happen on November 3, synthesizes the great paradox of these elections . The country is semi-paralyzed , in the middle of a pandemic that claims the lives of between 1,000 and 1,5000 citizens every day, and which has already caused more than 170,000 deaths, the highest number in the world. When official scam victims are computed in relation to the country's population, the US is the eighth most affected country in the world, only behind Belgium, Peru, Great Britain, Spain, Italy, Sweden, and Chile.

Without health, there is no campaign. So Biden's team, for example, has decided to do something unprecedented in America's modern election era : not charter a plane for the candidate to go from rally to rally. Trump, in that sense, has the official plane of the presidency, with which he is going to launch an offensive of speeches and visits to several crucial states this week, including a visit to the industrial town of Scranton in Pennsylvania, where Biden was born. . The tradition of respecting the conventions of the other party is another of the victims of the Covid.

A remote control campaign

With these conditions, the ability of the Conventions to mobilize the vote will be put to the test. Because, in the modern era, that is the key to these events, which are shows conceived for television. The fights for power - often fierce - do not appear on screen. Neither are the outrageously wasteful parties to woo factions of the party or simply keep the rank and file happy. Nor do the donations - obviously without any intention of influencing the future president - of food, computer equipment, communications or transportation systems made by companies (in 2016, for example, Apple refused to give aid to the Republican Convention for the attacks by that party on homosexuals, prompting Trump, in his acceptance speech, to affirm that "I will never sideline the homosexual community in the United States.")

In this virtual convention, Democrats have bet on the centrism that gave them excellent results in the 2018 congressional elections, when they achieved their largest unprecedented victory in almost half a century. Bernie Sanders, the leader of the left, was also going to speak last night, as was Michelle Obama, the member of the Democratic establishment most inclined to the left. But her interventions were to be counterbalanced by that of the center Republican John Kasich. The heavyweights, all of them from the center, -Obama, Clinton, Biden and their number two , Kamala Harris - will arrive in the next few days, with a leftist - like Senator Elizabeth Warren - inserted between them.

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