We expected controversy from the US election – but we didn’t expect this

It’s still unclear whether the president will turn up to any future debates, writes Holly Baxter

Donald Trump has said he won't debate Biden virtually (Getty)

With just under four weeks to go until election day, the US news cycle is particularly punishing.

Seemingly moments after the Washington DC, New York City and west coast teams sat down in front of our laptops to report on the strangest first presidential debate ever (in both circumstance and content), the president was diagnosed with coronavirus.

Then, just after his helicopter departed from the White House lawn for Walter Reed hospital, his compatriots began announcing their own diagnoses.