Elbow bumps, social distancing, and Medicare for All: The coronavirus pandemic dominated every aspect of the Democratic debate
Both Biden and Sanders used Sunday’s debate to attack Trump’s response to the pandemic and to offer their own vision of leadership.
WASHINGTON — This is politics in a pandemic age: A presidential debate conducted in a sterile television studio, podiums separated by an awkward 6 feet, and a former vice president insisting that he no longer touches his face. (Seconds before, he had touched his face.)
The debate cemented the weeks-old reality that the novel coronavirus pandemic has come to dominate every aspect of American politics. And it provided the two remaining Democratic presidential candidates — who greeted one another not with a handshake but with an elbow bump — a chance to articulate a presidential message in the
