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Today we've got a lot to cover the politics of coronavirus, male ballots, what is going on in Wisconsin,

and deep stakes as Bernie Sanders leaves the race. We'll talk about the World Health Organization funding stream and China's role in this,

as well as whether the death toll is being over undercounted and why that's become such a partisan debate.

David, we're starting with you this week. A lot of politics around the virus, before we get into epidemiology here.

There's been some lawsuits filed this week and certainly a lot of drama in Wisconsin that we'll get to in a moment.

But I want to talk generally about male ballots. We've seen a lot of states grappling with how to deal with November.

How do you see this playing out? Are we just headed for 50 different lawsuits and 50 different states at this point?

The short answer to that question is I'm not going to say 50 different lawsuits and 50 different states, maybe 49 different lawsuits and 49 different states.

No, I think we're head and less the unanticipated occurs and we flatten the curve into non-existence and the virus is a non-factor,

which is I don't think something we should plan for or anticipate in November.

We're looking at an increasingly contentious battle that is going to play out state by state.

And what may end up happening is that it may end up that we have very different looking elections in November depending on the politics of your state.

It's going to be very easy to imagine that your big blue states are going to double down on vote by mail.

They're going to double down on a number of measures to make it easier to vote with vote by mail being the principal method chosen.

Which is going to in all likelihood boost voter participation.

Now the red states and we can get into the merits of vote by mail, but there seems to be in the red states, and not all of them Utah does it quite a bit, but I almost an instinctive recoil against any measure that appears to be explicitly designed to boost voter participation.

We've talked about this on our own podcast that I think we should feel a little uncomfortable.

Conservatives should feel a little uncomfortable about an instinctive recoil about against measures designed to boost voter participation, but there's this, and you saw a little bit of it in the Trump news conference as sort of blanket assertion that vote by mail is rife with fraud.

And so what we could end up with, I don't think there's any political appetite unless the lessons of Wisconsin's election yesterday sort of sink in fully.

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