Good Thursday morning. I'm Anna Palmer and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing.

And I'm Jake Sherman. The 2020 election is 220 days away and it's shaping up to be the strangest campaign for the White House of our lifetime.

It's possible that neither candidate will be able to hold a public event until the summer and even then those events will likely have to be small.

The conventions will likewise be limited. Six weeks ago,

the issue set would have looked completely different than it does today. The economy is contracting,

people are dying, and yet the president's approval ratings have held steady. The campaign has

been reduced to a single overarching topic, the coronavirus. But as sure as the sun rises,

Democrats again believe they have a potent weapon to wield

at President Donald Trump and the White House, health care.

Trump never was able to replace Obamacare as he promised on the campaign trail, and as our

colleague, Susanna Luthi, scooped yesterday, the administration will not reopen the exchanges

to help people get covered during this time of distress.

John Roberts, Fox News White House correspondent, asked the vice president what the administration

would do for those people lacking employer-provided coverage because they were laid off.

Vice President Mike Pence suggested the administration had loosened Medicaid requirements to allow

people to get coverage.

Roberts asked, could middle class people get covered by Medicaid? Pence punted and said he is

inspired by the spirit of American businesses. But Trump knew blather when he heard it.

He said, John, I think it's a very fair question, though, and it's something we're really going to

have to look at because it doesn't seem fair. If you have it, you have a big advantage, and if you're at a certain income level, you do. I think it's one of the greatest answers I've ever heard because Mike was able to speak for five minutes and not even touch your question. Pence touched Trump's elbow with the kind of look you only give someone when they say the quiet part out loud. Trump wrapped up by saying the administration would look into it.

You could be sure Democrats were looking into something too, using the virus as a bat to bludge

in Republicans with health care.

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