The former vice president's ability to connect one-on-one is being tested during the coronavirus pandemic.
WASHINGTON — Joe Biden has talked to thousands of voters on hundreds of campaign rope lines during his career, but never from nearly 3,000 miles away.
Now that's he is the apparent Democratic nominee, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced his campaign to get creative even as he’s largely confined to his basement in Delaware. “He gets how much pain the country is in and how much we’re all hurting, that we’re all sick of what’s going on right now in the White House, that we want to be united, and he makes me feel that he’s going to make that his priority, and that’s so unbelievably refreshing after what we see with the president every single day,” Kueper said.
Most recently, Biden said he called Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., who announced Thursday that her oldest brother had died from the coronavirus earlier in the week. Washington mentioned the call during the AFL-CIO’s virtual convention earlier this month, when he thanked Biden for calming down his young family members, who had been inconsolable over the loss.
In interviews, Biden says he’s alarmed that Trump uses his nightly press briefings to boast about his own handling of the crisis rather than consoling the country from the most powerful lectern in the world.
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