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Former vice president <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/candidates/joe-biden?tid=lk_inline_manual_4&itid=lk_inline_manual_4&tid=lk_inline_manual_2&itid=lk_inline_manual_2&tid=lk_inline_manual_2&itid=lk_inline_manual_2">Joe Biden</a> said Thursday that the coronavirus outbreak has revealed the Trump administration’s “severe shortcomings” as he delivered remarks on a subject that has rapidly come to dominate and reshape the Democratic campaign for the White House.

Sen. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/candidates/bernie-sanders/">Bernie Sanders</a> (I-Vt.) also delivered remarks on the health and economic effects of the outbreak, comparing it in scale to a major war. Later Thursday afternoon, Sanders’s campaign was given a boost when he was declared the winner of last week’s Super Tuesday contest in California.

Also Thursday, the Democratic National Committee announced that it was moving a one-on-one debate Sunday between Biden and Sanders from Arizona to a television studio in the nation’s capital “out of an abundance of caution” amid the outbreak.

Biden and Sanders will go before the voters again Tuesday in Arizona, Florida, Illinois and Ohio — contests in which Biden hopes to add to his delegate lead and put the race out of reach for Sanders. As he turns his attention toward President Trump, Biden is also <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/joe-biden-appoints-jen-omalley-dillon-as-new-campaign-manager/2020/03/12/9fbde70e-63fd-11ea-845d-e35b0234b136_story.html">replacing his campaign manager</a>.

Biden <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-turns-his-focus-from-sanders-to-trump--and-rebooting-his-own-campaign/2020/03/11/399fe872-63b3-11ea-845d-e35b0234b136_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_7">turns his focus from Sanders to Trump</a> — and rebooting his campaign.

Sanders doesn’t drop out — but it’s <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sanders-doesnt-drop-out--but-its-not-full-speed-ahead-either/2020/03/11/c9debb2a-63ae-11ea-845d-e35b0234b136_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_8">not full speed ahead, either</a>.

Elections officials <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/elections-officials-scramble-for-options-as-coronavirus-worries-mount/2020/03/11/10ba1d2c-63a1-11ea-845d-e35b0234b136_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_9">scramble for options</a> as coronavirus worries mount.

<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/election-results/march-democratic-primaries-live-results/?itid=hp_hp-bignews4_html-results-tabs%3Ageneric%2Fcustom-html&tid=lk_inline_manual_6&itid=lk_inline_manual_6">Results: March 10 primaries</a> | <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/01/17/democratic-primary-delegates/?arc404=true&tid=lk_inline_manual_6&itid=lk_inline_manual_6">The Democratic Party’s presidential delegate process</a> | <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/calendar-2020/?itid=sf_elections&tid=lk_inline_manual_6&itid=lk_inline_manual_6">Election calendar</a>

The Sanders presidential campaign announced Thursday that it has asked all staff to work from home and will no longer hold big events or campaign at people’s homes.

“In light of concerns about coronavirus and out of an abundance of caution for our staff, volunteers and supporters, the Sanders campaign has asked all staff to work from home and will no longer hold large events or door-to-door canvasses, instead moving to digital formats and outreach wherever possible,” Sanders campaign spokesman Mike Casca said in a statement.

The move follows the cancellation of an Ohio rally on Tuesday. Sanders has held two news conferences from a hotel ballroom in Vermont since then, but no rallies or town halls.

Earlier Thursday, the Biden campaign announced its headquarters and satellite staffs would work from home beginning Saturday. 

Sean Sullivan

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) appeared on Fox News to discuss Congress’s response to the coronavirus, but was also asked about Biden looking like he would win the Democratic nomination.

Ocasio-Cortez, a surrogate for Sanders, did not dispute this. Instead, she called Sanders a “transformative” leader for everyday Americans and that she looked forward to the debate between him and Biden on Sunday.

But she also said the primary process is at a point where Democrats need “to make sure we come together.”

Asked if she was disappointed that young voters didn’t turn out in larger numbers for Sanders, Ocasio-Cortez blamed, in part, voter suppression. She acknowledged that it’s a challenge to inspire young people to go vote, but pointed to long lines at polling stations that could have discouraged young voters.

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Sanders has won <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/election-results/california-democratic-primary-live-results/?itid=lk_inline_manual_22" target=_blank>California’s Democratic presidential primary</a>, according to Edison Media Research.

Many Californians vote by mail for its contest, which was held March 3, Super Tuesday. California has 415 delegates, the greatest number of all Super Tuesday states.<b> </b>The final delegate allotment is still being determined. In California’s primary, as in all Democratic contests, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/democratic-primary-delegates/?arc404=true&itid=lk_inline_manual_23" target=_blank>delegates are awarded proportionally</a> rather than by a winner-take-all approach, meaning that both Biden and Sanders are on track to win delegates.

The state’s Democratic primary was hotly contested; polls ahead of Super Tuesday showed Sanders leading, but with Biden gaining ground.

No candidate worked harder to win California than Sanders, who bet his 2016 campaign on a last-minute win there and never stopped campaigning after he lost. Exit polling suggested a strong finish for the U.S. senator from Vermont, who was trailing in polls there as recently as October.

Sanders’s strengths resemble his advantages in Nevada’s caucuses, which until Super Tuesday had been the high point of his campaign.

According to exit polling in California, Sanders led Biden among white voters by six points; among Asian voters by 12 points; and among Latino voters by 27 points.

He trailed among only black voters, but not by the landslide margins he lost them by in Super Tuesday’s Southern primaries. According to the exit poll, Biden won just 37 percent of black voters in California, compared with 23 percent for former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg, 15 percent for Sanders, and 10 percent for Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass).

As in many other states, Sanders also won overwhelmingly among California’s younger voters, while Biden won those ages 65 and older. The two were neck-and-neck among voters ages 45 to 64.

<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/election-results/california-democratic-primary-live-results/?itid=lk_inline_manual_30" target=_blank>See full California results</a> | <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/election-results/washington-democratic-primary-live-results/?itid=lk_inline_manual_30" target=_blank>See results in Washington, where the winner has not yet been determined</a>

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Staffers for Biden’s presidential campaign, at its headquarters in Philadelphia and in field offices across the country, will work remotely as of Saturday, according to an all-staff memo obtained Thursday by The Washington Post.

“Starting Saturday, March 14, all Biden for President employees both in our Philadelphia headquarters and in field offices across the country will work from home,” senior campaign officials Anita Dunn and Jen O’Malley Dillon wrote in the memo. “Department heads will be in touch with teams about tele-work processes and operations.”

They added: “Staff in states will be given the option of returning to their permanent residence, and the campaign will facilitate their travel home. Any staff without a permanent residence will be provided housing in ‘Work from Home’ remote office pods across the country.”

The guidance will be in place for two weeks, at which point it will be reevaluated, according to the notice.

The move follows the decision by Biden to cancel campaign rallies and replace them with virtual town halls as cases of the coronavirus continue to spread in the United States. Sanders also has put off events for the time being.

Also on Thursday, the Democratic National Committee announced the relocation of Sunday’s primary debate from Phoenix to Washington, D.C., where it will take place without a live audience.

The steps follow guidance from public health experts, who are advising Americans to avoid large gatherings and stay six feet away from other people — part of a strategy known as social distancing — to help check the explosion of cases.

Biden delivered a speech Thursday in which he excoriated the Trump administration for its handling of the crisis and called on Americans to follow the guidelines set out by health officials. Sanders spoke a few hours later, laying out his plan to aid those affected by the pandemic.

Isaac Stanley-Becker

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) escalated his criticism of President Trump’s handling of the coronavirus Thursday, as he offered a suite of new policy proposals for addressing it and circumventing the president’s approach, which he portrayed as severely lacking.

“Unfortunately in this time of international crisis, it is clear to me at least that we have an administration that is largely incompetent and whose incompetence and recklessness have threatened the lives of many, many people in our country,” Sanders said at a news conference in Burlington, Vt., where he took no questions.

Sanders said Trump must declare the pandemic a national emergency.

Because Trump is “unwilling and unable to lead selflessly,” Sanders said, Congress should convene an “emergency bipartisan authority of experts” to help spearhead the government’s response.

In addition, Sanders called for steps to protect Americans from suffering economically and otherwise — advocating that the government step in to pay for health care costs during the crisis and take further steps to safeguard the most vulnerable people from financial ruin.

He proposed moratoriums on evictions, foreclosure and utility shut-offs, “so that no one loses their homes in this crisis.” And he advocated for the creation of emergency homeless shelters and lending programs.

The U.S. senator, who is a longtime champion of a Medicare-for-all health-care system in which the government is the sole insurer, warned of the dangers of not covering all Americans. He reiterated his calls for vaccines to be available free. And he said the government should ensure people can receive cost-free medical treatment.

“While we work to pass a Medicare-for-all single-payer system, the United States government today must it make it clear that in the midst of this emergency, everyone in our country, regardless of income or where they live, must be able to get all of the health care they need without cost,” Sanders said.

Sanders also called for emergency funding for paid family and medical leave.

“Anyone who is sick should be able to stay home,” he said.

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), speaking in Burlington, Vt., began his remarks about the coronavirus with a focus on the pain to come, comparing it in scale to a major war.

“Nobody knows what the number of fatalities will be,” Sanders said. “We have to face the truth that the number of casualties may actually be even higher than what the Armed Forces experienced in World War II.”

U.S. troops lost 400,000 people in that war.

Sanders urged Americans to view this crisis not through the lens of their personal experience, but as a communal event that will affect everyone, especially the most vulnerable among us.

“It’s a moral imperative that as a government, as a society, as a business community, as individual citizens we meet the enormity of this crisis,” Sanders said. “As people stay home and work from home, it will be easy to feel like we are in this alone or that we must only worry about ourselves and let everyone else fend for themselves. In my view, that would be a tragic and dangerous mistake.”

Speaking in Wilmington, Del., Biden sought to draw a sharp contrast with Trump on handling the spread of the coronavirus, declaring that the crisis has laid bare the “severe shortcomings” of the administration.

“The administration’s failure on testing is colossal, and it’s a failure of planning, leadership and execution,” Biden said. “By next week, the number of tests should be in the millions, not the thousands.”

The former vice president unveiled <a href="https://joebiden.com/covid19/" target=_blank>a comprehensive plan</a> for handling the crisis. It calls for a response that ensures free and widely available testing, the development of a vaccine, emergency paid leave for all Americans affected by the outbreak, and “an immediate set of ambitious and progressive economic measures, and further decisive action to address the larger macroeconomic shock from this outbreak.”

Biden also took aim at Trump’s description of the coronavirus as a “foreign virus,” arguing that the virus’s origin doesn’t absolve the president of his responsibility for handling the crisis or of what Biden described as his failures thus far.

“The coronavirus does not have a political affiliation,” Biden said, noting that the virus will affect people regardless of race, gender or Zip code.

Sanders plans to deliver remarks later Thursday afternoon in Burlington, Vt., on “the health and economic crisis facing the country,” his campaign announced shortly before Biden was scheduled to address the novel coronavirus outbreak during a speech in Wilmington, Del.

Like Biden, Sanders will be speaking from his hometown. He plans to make his address from a hotel in downtown Burlington.

Both candidates are seeking to appear presidential on an issue that Democrats have accused President Trump of bungling.

John Wagner

A scrappy coalition of activist groups supporting Bernie Sanders plans to intensify its fundraising and organizing efforts against the Democratic establishment, which is coalescing around Joe Biden after recent presidential primary wins.

The sprawling network of socialists, climate-change activists, millennial organizers and other progressive advocates, who raise money from millions of members and have knocked on many doors in support of Sanders (I-Vt.), say they plan to cite the coronavirus outbreak and the uncertain economy to advance him as the only candidate who can enact broad economic and environmental change.

Their efforts come even as major Democratic super PACs line up to spend millions for Biden as the candidate they consider best positioned to win the party’s nomination.

Read more <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/far-left-groups-supporting-sanders-intensify-their-efforts-even-as-biden-surges/2020/03/12/e0a8eb9e-5dd4-11ea-9055-5fa12981bbbf_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_72">here</a>.

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Anu Narayanswamy

The Democratic National Committee is moving Sunday’s Democratic presidential debate from Phoenix to Washington to cut down on cross-country travel and limit the potential spread of the coronavirus.

In a statement, DNC spokeswoman Xochitl Hinojosa said that out of an abundance of caution, “all parties have decided that the best path forward is to hold Sunday’s debate at CNN’s studio in Washington, D.C., with no live audience.”

Hinojosa also said that Univision anchor Jorge Ramos, who had been expected to moderate the debate, will be stepping aside because he “was in proximity with someone who was in direct contact with a person that tested positive for coronavirus.”

“Both Mr. Ramos and the person he was in contact with are in good health and symptom free,” Hinojosa said. “Despite being cleared by medical professionals and out of an abundance of caution, Jorge has decided to step aside from participating in the upcoming March 15 [D]emocratic debate. Univision’s News Anchor Ilia Calderón will moderate the debate in his place.”

President Trump said Thursday that he is inclined to cancel a rally planned in Florida later this month but boasted that the event, which has not been formally announced, was already “sold out.” 

Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, Trump told reporters that the event in Tampa was the next large-scale event he has scheduled. It is not advertised on his campaign’s website.

“We have a big one in Tampa, all sold out, we have over 100,000 requests for tickets, but I think we’ll probably not do it because people will say it’s better to not do,” Trump said. “You know, we need a little separation until such time that this goes away. It’s going to go away, it’s going to go away. … In the meantime, we want to lose as few people as possible. So important.” 

Trump also chided his Democratic rivals, who have also been canceling rallies, and falsely accused them of not drawing crowds.

“The Democrats won’t be having rallies, but no one showed up to their rallies anyway, so what difference does it make?” he said. “My rallies are very big, they’re very big rallies. We’ll be making a decision at an appropriate time. ... I don’t want people dying. That’s what I’m all about.” 

His comments Thursday came after the White House announced late Wednesday that he had canceled a three-day trip to Nevada and Colorado, including a speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas, due to “an abundance of caution” over the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/02/28/what-you-need-know-about-coronavirus/?tid=lk_inline_manual_1&itid=lk_inline_manual_1&itid=lk_inline_manual_85">coronavirus</a> outbreak.

Trump’s campaign quickly followed suit and called off a “Catholics for Trump” kickoff rally scheduled in Milwaukee next week, which had been publicly announced just a day earlier.

Biden has named Jen O’Malley Dillon as his new campaign manager, in a major shake-up that comes just as the party’s leading candidate plans a major organizational expansion to prepare for the general election, according to a person familiar with the decision.

The move is intended to quell concerns that have been raised in recent weeks by senior Democratic strategists about the leadership structure of the Biden campaign, which has been beset by underwhelming fundraising, scant staffing resources and organizational miscues during the early nominating contests.

The campaign shuffle is an acknowledgment that while Biden has had a remarkable recent run of victories — at least 15 of the past 21 contests — his operation was not up to the challenge posed by President Trump if Biden wins the nomination.

After Biden performed well below expectations in the Iowa caucuses, Anita Dunn, a senior adviser who previously worked for President Barack Obama, took operational control of the campaign, sharing responsibilities with Biden’s original campaign manager Greg Schultz.

Schultz, who prepared and built the Biden campaign and oversaw initial hiring and delegate strategy, is expected to stay on in a new role that will involve organizational planning and continued outreach to donors and other stakeholders, the person familiar with the plans said.

Read more <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/joe-biden-appoints-jen-omalley-dillon-as-new-campaign-manager/2020/03/12/9fbde70e-63fd-11ea-845d-e35b0234b136_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_93">here</a>.

Michael Scherer

At her weekly news conference at the Capitol, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) preempted reporters’ questions on the Democratic presidential primary and said she does not believe Sanders should drop out of the race.

“In case you were going to ask, no, I don’t think Bernie Sanders should get out of the race,” Pelosi said. “I’m a grass-roots person. … I know the enthusiasm of supporters for candidates, and they want to see it play out for the ideas, the causes that the candidate advances, for the opportunity for people to show their support.”

She added: “I congratulate both of the candidates as they go into the debate on Sunday, wish them both well. And I’m very pleased that we’re getting a chance now in a narrower field to be able to come close to having a standard-bearer for the party.”

Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez says he’s not considering canceling the party’s July nominating convention in Milwaukee or replacing it with an online gathering.

“No, we are working with our state and local partners, and I’m confident that we can work a plan that will enable us to have our convention,” Perez said in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPDT1Ae4nxA&feature=youtu.be">an excerpt</a> released Thursday from “Axios on HBO,” which is scheduled to air in full Sunday.

Asked about the prospect of shifting to an online convention, Perez said: “We’d have to change the rules, so we’re not contemplating rules changes, and I’m very confident that we’re going to be able to carry it off.”

Axios said the interview with Perez was conducted Monday.

Biden plans to deliver a speech Thursday from his hometown in Wilmington, Del., on the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/02/28/what-you-need-know-about-coronavirus/?tid=lk_inline_manual_43&itid=lk_inline_manual_43&itid=lk_inline_manual_104">coronavirus</a> pandemic, an effort to show leadership on an issue that has become central to the campaign while President Trump faces criticism for having played down the severity of the global crisis.

Biden’s remarks — scheduled at 1 p.m. Eastern — come a day after an Oval Office address in which Trump announced tax-relief proposals and new travel restrictions in response to the “foreign virus” and insisted “the virus will not have a chance against us.”

“Today’s speech will be presidential, not political," said a Biden aide, who requested anonymity to preview the address. "It will be clear-eyed about the challenges we face and offer thoughtful ideas on the path forward. It will offer a view into how Biden will lead in times of crisis as president.“

Ahead of Trump’s remarks, Biden set up his own public health advisory committee with boldface names from the Obama administration, including Vivek H. Murthy, who was surgeon general under President Barack Obama, and Lisa Monaco, former homeland security and counterterrorism adviser to Obama.

The committee will provide “science-based, expert advice,” Biden’s campaign said.

“The campaign’s top priority is and will continue to be the health and safety of the public,” it said. “Members of the committee will provide ongoing counsel to the campaign, which will in turn continue to update the public regarding operational decisions.”

Matt Viser

Sanders’s lead over Biden has been shrinking in California, among the Super Tuesday states that voted on March 3, as officials there continue to tally vote-by-mail ballots, provisional ballots and others.

When news organizations declared Sanders the winner of California’s Democratic contest shortly after the polls closed, at least 3.4 million ballots remained uncounted, according to the secretary of state’s office.

As of early the following morning, Sanders had netted 34 percent of the votes counted compared with 25 percent for Biden. That nine-point margin has now narrowed to about six points, according to the latest tally from the secretary of state’s office, which shows Sanders with 34 percent and Biden with nearly 28 percent.

They are followed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg, both with about 13 percent. Warren and Bloomberg have since dropped out of the race.

Biden’s rise reflects a phenomenon in which voters who made up their minds late were more likely to favor him.

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii), who’s trailing badly in the delegate count but remains in the Democratic presidential race, took to Twitter on Thursday to complain that the media is trying “to erase my candidacy.”

“I’m continuing to run for the same reason I originally began this race: to bring about a sea change in our longstanding foreign policy of carrying out regime change wars, end the new cold war &amp; nuclear arms race, and invest the trillions wasted in such wars into the American ppl,” Gabbard said in a tweet in which she included a clip from a recent appearance on Fox News.

In the clip, Gabbard tells host Tucker Carlson that the media, by focusing on the Biden-Sanders race and not including her candidacy, is “disrespecting the voters in this country.”

“It really begs the question: Why are they doing this?” Gabbard says, alleging that the media and the Democratic political elite want to “try to erase my candidacy.”

As of the most recent tally by The Washington Post, Biden had accumulated 786 delegates to the Democratic National Convention, while Sanders had 645 and Gabbard had two.

Former New York mayor Mike Bloomberg, who is looking for ways to remain relevant after dropping out of the Democratic presidential race, is donating $500,000 to Voto Latino to help register young voters.

Latino Vote on Thursday said the donation would target states including Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin and aid an existing digital voter registration program.

“Four million young people who heard the president call their loved ones criminals and rapists have come of age since those terrible remarks and will be eligible to cast a vote for the very first time this November," Maria Teresa Kumar, president and chief executive officer of Voto Latino, said in a statement. <b>“</b>Bloomberg’s investment allows Voto Latino to further educate, engage and empower the Latinx community to register to vote and turn out to the polls.”

During weeks of briefings and discussions about the escalating coronavirus, President Trump has repeatedly fixated on one thing above all: the numbers.

He has aggressively quizzed aides about infection statistics — asking how many cases are in each state, and how the figures compare with those in other countries. He has clung to the rosiest projections, repeating only the figures that support his belief that the coronavirus is not morphing into a global catastrophe. And he has intensely followed the stock market, which plunged more than 1,600 points Wednesday.

Trump’s obsession with numbers — both publicly and privately — has dominated and shaped the administration’s response to the coronavirus, as advisers and public health experts try to placate a leader who largely views the global pandemic through the political lens of how the statistics reflect on his presidency and hopes for reelection.

Read more <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-numbers-coronavirus-markets/2020/03/12/ed737706-630e-11ea-845d-e35b0234b136_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_130">here</a>.

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Biden on Thursday picked up an endorsement from Rep. David Loebsack (D-Iowa), who previously endorsed former South Bend, Ind., mayor Pete Buttigieg ahead of the Iowa caucuses.

Loebsack, who represents southeast Iowa and is retiring after leaving office early next year, said Buttigieg provided “a new kind of leadership that we desperately need” in a statement released in January.

In a statement released Thursday, the seven-term lawmaker said Biden would “bring the experience necessary to deliver meaningful progress for the American people.” 

In a news release, Biden’s campaign noted that with Loebsack’s endorsement, it now has the support of all three Democratic members of Congress from Iowa.

Biden finished fourth in the state’s Democratic caucuses in February. The state is considered a general election battleground.

As Biden’s campaign continues to roll out new endorsements, it touted one Thursday from Sally Yates, the former acting attorney general fired by President Trump days after he took office.

“Joe Biden is far more than just a ‘good man,’” Yates said in a statement released by Biden’s campaign. “While serving in the Obama administration, I had the opportunity to observe Vice President Biden grapple with some of the country’s greatest challenges, at home and abroad. He will utilize his vast experience to restore America’s credibility and position of moral authority in the world. Our allies will trust us again, and our adversaries will not doubt our strength. He will put an end to the chaos and recklessness that is inflicted on us every day, and bring steady, thoughtful leadership to our nation." 

Trump ousted Yates in January 2017 after she instructed Justice Department attorneys not to defend his executive order blocking travel from seven majority-Muslim countries.

She is among a growing number of former Obama administration officials to endorse Biden, though former president Barack Obama has not announced his support of any candidate in the Democratic field.

In a news release, the Biden campaign touted Yates’s endorsement as a sign of “growing momentum” in Georgia, the state where she and her husband live.

With health officials across the country advising against holding events that draw large crowds, both Biden and Sanders are adjusting how they campaign.

In response to the worsening coronavirus outbreak, Biden’s campaign announced Wednesday that it was canceling events in Illinois and Florida to “minimize health risks for staff and supporters” and would hold “virtual events” instead. As of now, such events are planned in Chicago on Friday and Miami on Monday.

The only event on Biden’s schedule on Thursday is an address on the coronavirus from his hometown of Wilmington, Del.

Sanders — whose campaign has been defined by large-scale rallies that can draw thousands of supporters — has not announced any such events in the four states holding primaries on Tuesday. For now, he seems focused on preparing for the first one-on-one debate with Biden, scheduled Sunday in Phoenix — which will no longer include a live audience.

Sanders continued to describe himself as the candidate best-suited to take on President Trump in November but acknowledged during an appearance on “The Tonight Show” that he thinks Biden can beat him too.

“I do,” Sanders told host Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday night. “I mean, I think, when you have a president who is pathological liar, when you have a president who truly apparently has never read the Constitution of the United States, who thinks he is above the law, who is a racist and a sexist and all of that stuff, I think even Republicans and moderates are going to say, ‘You know what, we can’t have four more years of this guy.’”

“Do I think Joe can beat him? I do. You know, between you and me, don’t tell anybody,” Sanders joked, before adding: “We’re the stronger campaign to do that.” 

During the interview — which came a day after Biden considerably widened his delegate lead over Sanders — the independent senator from Vermont acknowledged disappointment in the direction of the race and also chided Trump for spending so much time offering his commentary on it.

“What amazes me, here we have a stock market that is collapsing, you have a coronavirus that is scaring the entire world, we have climate change, which is a threat to the human planet, and Donald Trump keeps worrying about the Democratic primary,” Sanders said. “So, Mr. President, if you watch anything other than Fox — I don’t know that you do — why don’t you do your job? Pay attention to the needs of the American people. Don’t worry so much about the Democratic primary.” 

President Trump has canceled a three-day trip to Nevada and Colorado, including a speech to the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas, due to “an abundance of caution” over the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/02/28/what-you-need-know-about-coronavirus/?tid=lk_inline_manual_1&itid=lk_inline_manual_1&itid=lk_inline_manual_155">coronavirus</a> outbreak, the White House said late Wednesday.

The president’s long-planned trip, which was set to begin Thursday, also included a private dinner with Republican donors in Las Vegas and a fundraiser with Sen. Cory Gardner (R) in Colorado. Organizers of the RJC conference, which also has now been postponed, and Las Vegas city officials had said earlier Wednesday that the event was still a go and that Trump and former U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley were expected to attend.

Read more <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-coronavirus-las-vegas-republican-jewish-coalition/2020/03/11/ef79aee4-63a4-11ea-acca-80c22bbee96f_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_158">here</a>.

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