Running for Office During a Pandemic

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🗓️ 15 June 2020

⏱️ 16 minutes

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The need for social distancing has upended most of the ways that candidates have traditionally put themselves before voters: gathering crowds, shaking hands, kissing babies. Eric Lach has been following the race in New York’s Seventeenth Congressional District to learn how Facebook Live, e-mail newsletters, and Zoombombs are shaping the race. “There’s no question that people are in pain, and they’re worried and they’re distracted,” Allison Fine, a candidate with a background in digital organizing, said. “So we’re not going to be able to break through all that noise . . . . But all the metrics of engagement are going up.”

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0:48.4	I'm Dorothy Wickenden.
0:50.2	On today's Politics and More podcast, the New Yorker's Eric Latch looks at the race for the congressional seat in New York 17th District.
0:58.7	The coronavirus pandemic has thrown the race into disarray and challenged many of the assumptions of how local elections run.
1:09.2	Good evening and welcome to the New York Congressional District 17 Democratic primary candidates forum.
1:18.3	Can you hear me?
1:19.3	There we go.
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1:25.2	With everything that is going on in the world, it's a very tough time to run for office.
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