When will the real US presidential election campaign begin?

Donald Trump's Fox News interview in front of the statue of Abraham Lincoln was supposed to be the launch of the president's campaign to get reelected in November. But somehow it still doesn't feel as if the Trump/Biden race has actually begun. Will it/can it ever get off the ground while the coronavirus pandemic is still tearing its way through the US with no significant let-up in the fatality toll? Everything is one way or the other linked to Covid-19, whether it be relations with China or America's military might or White House battles with the intelligence services or the future of the US economy. Meanwhile Biden is a quiet voice from his basement, having little or no effect on anything. Bizarrely Biden is still ahead in the polls but that has surely got more to do with Trump's pretty extraordinary outbursts about coronavirus than any confidence the nation is feeling about a President Biden. Unlike in many countries where the deaths graph is now heading downwards fairly steadily, the US figures are still alarming and the predicted total of 100,000 is unbelievable. How can this be? It's time Biden emerged from his basement and started telling the people what he really thinks about the pandemic and how the US should be tackling it even if that will inevitably risk some sharp responses from the president. Biden needs to stand up and be counted, as they say. He is the Democratic party's presumptive presidential candidate - unless something dramatic happens (see previous blog on this subject) - but the Biden bandwagon has come to a halt. He should get out and move around the country somehow, observing of course the social distancing rules. Perhaps this is as yet impossible because of the cavalcade he would need to have around him. But there must be a way of getting him projected into frontline news better than he is at the moment. Right now it's almost as if there is not going to be an election in November. The Trump administration is to borrow $3 trillion to pay for the impact of the pandemic on the economy. That is a staggering sum and US taxpayers will have to pay for that for decades to come. But there is no real debate about it. The same thing is happening in the UK, vast sums being borrowed to pay the wages of millions of workers who have been laid off. Let the US presidential campaign begin I say. If Biden is not up to it, let someone else who is. Trump calmly warns that the total death toll could reach 100,000 which he describes as "horrible" and yet he is as good as cheering on the states who are beginning to lift lockdown restrictions. Trump is desperate to get the economy working again. Perfectly understandable but never mind the consequences? Where is Biden? Get out of your bunker.