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Biden, Sanders Remarks Show How The Coronavirus Has Upended The Campaign

The coronavirus is scrambling so much of our lives at the moment, there's no surprise it's doing the same to the presidential race.
An election worker wears protective gloves during the Florida primary election at South Pointe Elementary School in Miami, on Tuesday.

For the third straight primary Tuesday, Joe Biden emerged as the winner.

But the country is in a vastly different state than it was just a few weeks ago, and as a result, the former vice president's victory address on Tuesday night was hardly celebratory.

"Tackling this pandemic is a national emergency akin to fighting a war," the Democratic front-runner from his home in Wilmington, Del.

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