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b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0\\xa0 An update on the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus across the nation. Trump appears to have heeded his medical experts' advice and dropped his absurd demand to "reopen the economy" by Easter, with "federal guidance" to continue social distancing throughout May 1. New, best-case scenario estimates warn that 100,000-200,000 Americans will die from the virus by August, even if the entire nation shuts down for months.\\xa0 Potentially good news from South Korea, Seattle and California indicate that strict social distancing efforts appear to be succeeding in slowing the spread of the virus. All of which underscores, as Brad notes, that this is likely to go on far longer than officials are telling the American public, and nobody is steering the ship at the national level. Trump admitted on Fox "News" that Republicans blocked increased funding for election security in the stimulus bill because it would increase voter turnout, decreasing Republicans' chances of winning in 2020. New York State has finally postponed its presidential primary to June 23. Wisconsin's GOP-state legislature refuses to postpone its primary, set to be held next Tuesday. Ohio's GOP legislature and governor aren't even trying to hide their contempt for democracy -- state lawmakers just added cumbersome, time-consuming extra steps for absentee voters to participate in Ohio's April 27 primary, despite Ohio's Republican Sec. of State warning the changes are "logistically impossible."\\xa0 Ohio is demonstrating to the country how NOT to reschedule elections during a pandemic -- unless one's actual goal, like Trump said, is to keep "levels of voting" as low as possible to help Republicans win. Callers weigh in on all of the above, and share how they are holding up in the Coronaverse..."