American presidential election: the strange campaign in the basement of Joe Biden

From our correspondent in Washington

The US presidential campaign has taken an unexpected turn due to the Covid-19 epidemic. Deprived of public gatherings and tours across the United States, candidates must invent new ways to engage voters. But while Donald Trump takes advantage of his position to be heard, Joe Biden, his Democratic opponent, struggles to exist in the media.

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Since the suspension of his campaign in early March, the former vice-president of Barack Obama has lived in recluse in his residence, near Wilmington in Delaware, the state he has long represented in the Senate. It was the first time since President Harding in 1920 that a presidential candidate campaigned from his home. But whereas at the time, Warren G. Harding had taken this decision to restore a certain dignity to politics, instead of criss-crossing the country by train and speaking in barns, Biden must do so forced and forced .

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