First?
The Biden campaign IS beginning hire more staff as the campaign moves from virus freeze to slow spreading out across the country…
The Biden campaign is now working with the Democratic Party to bring people on board and expland…
They have the money now with Sanders behind them and various Super Pac’s and donor’s lined up and giving…
The hirings have been from several of the campaigns of those who ran against Biden and that will unify the campaign …So far there are NO reports of ex-Sanders staff hirings though…
Second?…
Trump VP Mike Pence has been traveling more in the last few weeks and Trump himself is now doing limited traveling, with virus tested appearances…
Biden has not…
(He’s actually doing fine in polling with being home right now)
He WILL have to begin to move away from just his basement studio soon….
He should do so carefully…
(Trump has ordered virus testing units be sent to Biden)
Some donors and strategists have argued that Biden needs to branch out from his basement studio — which has formed the backdrop for a campaign waged largely through uneven video streams, safe from the threat of the coronavirus — and leave the grounds of his Delaware home now that Trump has begun to once again travel the country.
Others have told the Biden team they fear that limiting the candidate to virtual appearances as Trump commands hours of airtime has left Biden on the sidelines while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and state governors serve as the face of the Democratic pandemic response. Rather than highlighting Biden’s ideas to tackle the virus or revive the economy, much of the recent attention on him has focused on his denials of a former Senate staffer’s sexual assault allegations.
“The question is when does he come out — when is Groundhog Day?” asked John Morgan, a Florida trial lawyer and major Biden donor. “That’s the big question. What is the first day of spring?”
Trump on Friday mocked Biden for his cloistered candidacy, offering to provide his rival’s campaign a rapid coronavirus test like the one used in the White House while telling Fox News, “I’d love to see him get out of the basement so he can speak.”
Another top donor, speaking on the condition of anonymity to offer a candid assessment, suggested that Biden could think about ways to do events at police and fire stations or with nurses, keeping a safe social distance and wearing appropriate protective equipment.
Campaign officials, who declined to respond to Trump’s jibe Friday, have not yet signaled when Biden plans to leave his property….