After declaring that the virus was not " nothing " and that he was going " disappear ", Donald Trump finds himself today confronted, like most heads of state in the world, with the need for strict confinement to contain its dissemination. Can the management of the crisis by the American president cost him the election, or on the contrary make him the warlord of the nation? Where is the campaign of his democratic rival Joe Biden, which the pandemic has overshadowed? In short, can the Covid-19 epidemic change the course of the American presidential campaign?
Update with Gilles Paris, correspondent for World in Washington, in the United States.
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