Senate Democrat concerned Biden’s campaign message is getting overshadowed amid coronavirus crisis

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A leading Senate Democrat is concerned his party’s presumptive presidential nominee, former vice president Joe Biden is becoming an afterthought amid attention lavished in the coronavirus crisis on President Trump and Democratic New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

“It’s tricky territory. We’re in the midst of a national emergency. And, of course, Vice President Biden is not in office at this moment. He has not nailed down the nomination although it appears he will,” Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois told the Washington Examiner. “And he’s being careful that he doesn’t inject politics into this national debate about public health.”

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