And we also know that, as a personal matter, he likes Joe Biden. He was Forrest's best friend during the Vietnam War. From The New York Times, I’m Michael Barbaro. [LAUGHS] It’s a particularly painful kind of social isolation, for me at least. “One, that they are younger than I am,” he said in Hudson, N.H., last month, “And No. We saw a transformation of voter’s preferences within this field at a speed that I don’t think it’s an overstatement to call it totally unprecedented. Thank you all. He then spent a lot of that visit condemning the religious leaders as liars and hypocrites. They have been talking about the idea of nominating Sanders as deeply, deeply politically risky. But we can say that he was an unpopular president on the day this crisis started. So he is staring at the possibility of not just defeat and not just a setback, but something like political humiliation to go in a month from essentially winning Iowa — basically splitting the win with Bernie Sanders — to winning absolutely nothing on Super Tuesday. On Sunday, Senate Democrats blocked the stimulus bill, saying it favors big business and does not contain enough protections for workers by allowing companies to fire workers even after receiving federal bailouts. Bernie Sanders cannot hit the road and gather tens of thousands of people in stadiums and deliver a forceful plea to the Democratic Party to not go ahead and nominate Joe Biden. While Ms. Klobuchar could be helpful in cementing Mr. Biden’s connections to the Midwestern battleground states in play this fall, she would struggle to excite many liberal voters — an area of weakness for Mr. Biden. Inglesby said the U.S has seen exponential growth and that health officials are just beginning to understand how pervasive it is. And that it’s certainly not, based on what we know now, changing that picture in his favor. Biden sweeping every county in Michigan, Missouri and Mississippi. And there are people who can do the math for themselves and see that after Nevada and South Carolina, there are really only two candidates in this race who are putting up big numbers on the national level in the way that it would take to go the distance. And they saw it fall away with astonishing speed. [CHEERING] We won the New Hampshire primary. And I think that things are so turbulent and unpredictable right now that we can’t totally rule out the possibility that maybe that happens at some point once people see the scale of economic damage and the kind of vividness that we certainly and unfortunately will. Joe Biden has emerged as the overwhelming favorite to be the Democratic nominee. At his best, his allies say, Mr. Biden is a steady, seasoned hand ready to lead in a tumultuous time. Exactly. Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Senator Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada and Representative Val Demings of Florida. His brothers understood exactly what Jesus had said. In the United States, Ohio and Louisiana became the latest states to instruct residents to stay at home as infections in each state surged. ”. Is that not your usual entrance into halls and rooms? What we have right now, though, is people who are experiencing a terrifying disruption in their daily lives. Other names generating chatter include Gov. I think the conditions of the pandemic also make it harder for, well, anybody involved in the race at this point to think through, what is the right thing to do next? He wins older voters. Now, with the coronavirus, it’s been largely forgotten. He vowed that "the vaccine will be very safe and very effective.". He will discuss the strong working relationship he had with Mr. Obama, and say that he is looking for a running mate with whom he is similarly “simpatico” on key issues — and for someone who could be entrusted with presidential authority. It’s a blowout in the state. Gabrielle Ake and Kate Rydell contributed to this report. He’s certainly hearing lots of calls to step aside in a moment of crisis, kind of let the party coalesce around a nominee and prepare itself for a general election. We can disagree on tactic but not on strategy. President Trump on Monday reiterated that a vaccine would be produced "in record time," and again floated the possibility that the nation "could even have it during the month of October. Patrick also said the elderly population, who the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said are more at risk for COVID-19, can take care of themselves and suggested that grandparents wouldn’t want to sacrifice their grandchildren’s economic future. And Wall Street’s going to do just fine. I’m worried about the people in little rural West Virginia and all over Main Street. While Mr. Biden often says it is “presumptuous” to discuss a running mate, he has something of a routine down when asked about it. Some close to Mr. Biden’s campaign have noted that he appears fond of Ms. Klobuchar, who endorsed him before Super Tuesday.