Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticThe 2020 election has strangely felt both more and less present a part of life than it’d have seemed likely on January 1: It’s more with us because of the heightened tensions stoked by our president, with his supporters and detractors feeling a sense of urgency about how they’ll vote, and it’s less with us because of everything else.
It can be easy to forget this is an election year when thinking about all the other things that make 2020 itself — a somewhat startling way in which COVID-19, the economic devastation it has wrought, and a simultaneous awakening around racial justice have worked in tandem to break TV news’s addiction to the endless campaign.
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