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Showing Original Post only (View all)Biden seeks to offer a possible presidency preview [View all]
https://us.yahoo.com/gma/coronavirus-upends-2020-race-biden-seeks-offers-possible-080451017--abc-news-topstories.htmlAs the coronavirus upends the 2020 race, Biden seeks to offer a possible presidency preview
MOLLY NAGLE and JOHN VERHOVEK
Good Morning America March 22, 2020
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Former Vice President 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 partys nominating contest to a screeching halt for the next few weeks amid postponed primaries.
However, the pandemic has also presented an opportunity for the former vice president to demonstrate the type of leadership hes promised he would provide to voters for nearly a year with actions that preview a possible President Biden.
I find myself, literally on the phone with my key advisors, medical advisors and economic advisors literally four or five hours a day, going through detailed memoranda on what we should be doing, Biden said on a call for press Friday afternoon.
My whole focus has basically been, how we deal with this crisis. And quite frankly, thus far has been less about how we campaign or make stark differences between the president and I. I think some are just self-evident, but the bottom line is that...my whole rationality here is to make sure that we focus on the urgent need of the American people, Biden continued.
Bidens 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 Trumps election campaign is happy to point out.
Now we will see and hear what a real president is like!


primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
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Thanks. We are pretty safe here in Taiwan, but I am incontact with family and fiends in the US.
UncleNoel
Mar 2020
#3
Both he and Bernie now need to do this, suggest Senator Warren be put in charge and over this crisis
duforsure
Mar 2020
#11