Reporting the US election: ‘No one quite knows when it will end. Or how’

I wonder how many people remember John Delaney? The former congressman became the first Democrat to announce that he would challenge Donald Trump for the presidency. He did so on 28 July 2017, just six months after Trump took office, demonstrating that these days US presidential races are marathons that last years. Under normal circumstances, that marathon would end at around midnight on the Tuesday following the first Monday in November of the…