(Mr. Giuliani is now Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer.) That was what Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont was trying to convey in his speech about the gravity of the coronavirus threat on Thursday. And it was what Mr. Biden meant to do in his address on Thursday — to hold himself up as a reassuring, steady alternative to Mr. Trump, to show that he was competent, sympathetic, forceful and presidential. “The number one thing you have to do is figure out how to address the problem — and to make it clear where you can and can’t solve it,” Mr. Litt said. “You have to be honest about it, that you can’t bring the number of cases down to zero,” he added.

Source: New York Times March 13, 2020 17:49 UTC