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Jen Rubin in WaPo with a roundabout way of finding a pandemic positive for campaign finance reform...
Conventions are TV shows, so there truly is no need to bring everyone to the same stage (literally) when cameras can come to them. (If the NBA and MLB can play games with virtual fans, why can’t the convention program take place with virtual delegates in a virtual arena on a virtual podium?)
Yes, that’s one of the silver linings in the pandemic, oddly.
The principal losers in this are the high-money donors who pay gobs to sponsor these affairs, paying for access and influence with the nominee. Cutting them out of the action may be the closest we have come to campaign finance reform in a long time.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/05/trumps-convention-speech-will-be-epitome-narcissism-bidens-will-be-opposite/