Former Vice President Joe Biden appeared well on his way to the Democratic presidential nomination in the weeks before the COVID-19 virus essentially ground the party’s nominating contest to a screeching halt for the next few weeks amid postponed primaries. “I find myself, literally on the phone with
Former Vice President Joe Biden appeared well on his way to the Democratic presidential nomination in the weeks before the COVID-19 virus essentially ground the party’s nominating contest to a screeching halt for the next few weeks amid postponed primaries.
Biden’s campaign is now navigating how to take the leadership mantle on amid the global crisis, without the power and gravitas that comes with the title of ‘Commander in Chief -- a fact Trump’s election campaign is happy to point out. All of this comes after two days without public events with Biden, and at a natural ‘reset’ point in the race: Biden has earned at least 1,080 of the 1,991 delegates needed to secure the Democratic nomination, according to ABC News’ delegate count--effectively ending any viable path to the nomination for Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders.
The campaign’s goal, according to a senior Biden aide, is to not only to provide information for the general public on the virus, but also hold the Trump administration to account and provide the leadership to convince voters to vote for Biden come November. “The bottom line is that everything from providing better access to where I physically live and be able to broadcast from there, as well as our headquarters is underway. We've hired a professional team to do that now,” Biden told reporters.
“There's no playbook for this, we don't have a set procedure for what to do,” said Tim Lim, a Democratic advertising strategist that aided President Barack Obama’s re-election effort and served on the National Finance Committee for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. "How do we make sure that the VP is engaging with his supporters in this moment? That people are checking in on each other? So we're making sure that part of his day is calling through grassroots supporters and making sure they have a chance to interact with him in that capacity,” Flaherty said in an interview with ABC News.
While social distancing requires the campaign to branch out in new and interesting way to engage voters -- Flaherty argued that the campaign has always been gearing up to highlight Biden's leadership ahead of the general election, but is now adapting to an entirely different"battlefield." “Your digital strategist has become the most important person in the room,” Lim said. “If you're not listening to that person then you're not gonna be able to move your campaign forward.”The Bernie Sanders factorWhile Biden and his team work to put the infrastructure and campaign strategy in place to cement their role as Trump’s counterpoint amid the crisis, there is one other unknown for the campaign: Sanders and his plans for the future of his candidacy.
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