#WhereIsBiden…how he can’t win from his home office and Medium

It is not a big secret that Democrats have been uneasy about the Biden nomination since the day he announced his third run for presidency earlier last year. While he was anointed as the Democratic front runner before he even decided to run for presidency, the way he has run his campaign left many on left with a lot of anxiety. At one point he was even dismissed as the viable contender due to his losses in the early states of the primaries.

But as he cemented his candidacy after wining many of the Super Tuesday states and his commanding lead in the states that followed, there was renewed hope in his candidacy. He has maintained that lead and earlier this month Senator Bernie Sanders suspended his campaign, effectively making Vice President Biden the presumptive democratic nominee.

We fought the so-called Bernie bros and we are all in to ensure that he becomes the 46th President of the United States, but we cannot do it alone. We need the former vice president to help us catapult him to the presidency. That cannot happen when Biden is hunkered down in his Delaware home office, he needs to get in front of the cameras.

Trump is campaigning on a nearly daily basis, using the #CoronaVirus as a platform to do so. It is time that Biden did the same. While everyone understands that safety and social distancing is of the utmost importance, it does not mean that the Vice President cannot do what dozens of governors and the president do on nearly daily basis.

In the fall the right and Trump’s surrogates will argue that in the time where Americans needed real leadership and courage, Biden was hiding while Trump was “bravely” keeping America calm and informed. Trump has figured out that, while he may not be able to hold massive rallies, he learned real quick the power of the podium and the dozens of cameras that tune in everyday, regardless if Trump is updating on the Covid19 or whether he is spewing campaign talking points.

In times of crisis people do not tune into prerecorded statements. People look to real time comfort, hence why the popularity of Governors such as Newsom and Cuomo has skyrocketed. It is time Biden began making public appearances and countering the daily campaign rallies that Trump is holding through the so-called Coronavirus task force. Coming out in September might be too late.