Now that Bernie Sanders has suspended his campaign, decisions about the 2020 Democratic Convention can be made directly by the DNC with the Biden campaign.  So where do we stand?  First, On Sunday, Biden floated the idea of a virtual convention:

Well, we’re going to have to do a convention. We may have to do a virtual convention. I think we should be thinking about that right now. The idea of holding the convention is going to be necessary. We may not be able to put 10, 20, 30,000 people in one place and that’s very possible. Again let’s see where it is — and what we do between now and then is going to dictate a lot of that as well. But my point is that I think you just got to follow the science,”

Given that the convention is now not until August, that gives Biden and the DNC another month to make a decision.  When do they have to decide by?  I would think they have until at least June 1. They certainly have to decide before construction starts in the Fiserv Forum, which is usually 6 weeks before the convention, or around the start of July. (The Milwaukee Bucks and the NBA present a completely parallel wild card, which we’ll address in a future post).

And of course, for the GOP, last week, Trump was Trump:

“Somebody was asking today, ‘Will you cancel the convention?’ and I said, ‘No way am I going to cancel the convention,'” Trump said in an interview with Sean Hannity Thursday night. “We are not going to cancel the convention. It is going to be incredible.”

Would the Democrats purposely have a virtual convention, while the GOP has an in-person one, just to drive home the point of which party is more responsible, more willing to take this seriously?  Or maybe they play a game of chicken, deciding early on to go virtual, knowing (hoping) the GOP will have to go virtual at the last minute anyway?  We are in totally unknown waters here.