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Economical: Disaster.
Political: Will give rise to populist parties.

I agree with the first part, to an extent. But let's not forget the fact that in most of the affected nations, the economy is recovering despite the increasing number of new cases and deaths from the pandemic. And secondly, a number of populist politicians and parties have lost as a result of the pandemic. The best example is that of Donald Trump. He could have easily won the POTUS 2020 elections, if the pandemic was not there.

I don't think so, people are not dumb, they are not only looking at one situation, Trump had serve one team in his country, so people are already seeing his decisions and actions over that period and they are not satisfied that's why he lose, just to be clear, majority are not satisfied that's why majority voted for Biden.

Well.. Trump was leading in the opinion polls, which were conducted before March 2020. Most of the gambling sites had Trump with much better odds, when compared to Joe Biden. But then the COVID 19 pandemic struck the United States and his ratings spiraled downwards. And during the exit polls which were conducted after the elections, a lot of people claimed that if not for his poor handling of the pandemic, they would have actually voted for Trump.

Well, I believe that his poor handling on the covid-19 pandemic is also one of the reason, buy based on survey alone, it does not automatically say who will win in the election. Last election Trump is not topping the survey, but he still pull a win.

It's not only US election that Covid-19 would impact politically and economically I foresee many countries losing their leaders in subsequent elections due to the poor handling of the pandemic, some citizens of some countries want freedom from lockdowns imposed by their government which didn't go down well e.g Germany this might lead to their chancellor losing her election, meanwhile in many countries especially third world leaders had used the pandemic to enrich themselves with loans obtained from the world Bank meant to tackle and cushion the effect of the pandemic on the already battered economies of their countries this will to many of them losing election too.