Vee

Oh, it will.

Sure they have.

No, I think Joe's being smart. Trump's daily briefings/praise sessions are falling apart and he's crumbling mentally more by the day. They're bad for his numbers but worse for the country. America needs to see some semblance of a sane, rational leader out in front of them every day of the crisis from the Democrats' side - we can't just do the work BTS and expect the media to give us attention after. We need a PR push now. Joe can do it. Pelosi can do it, even AOC can do it. And Dems starting to cut into Trump's daily live TV show will drive him even crazier.

My first known social contact is infected - a young family friend, a student in Germany with asthma. He's quarantined away from his family, and was already concerned bc his grandfather has COPD. I'm trying to comfort people where I can. I used to be glad my grandparents didn't live to see Trump or the return of overt antisemitism and Nazism, complete with that mass shooting at the PA synagogue ten mins from their home a few years ago. Now, knowing they lived through WWII, the Depression and in Grandpa's case Spanish flu, I wish we had their wisdom - and faith - to lean on.

This will get worse for him, bc he can't tolerate the daily pressure of the briefings without constant adulation and his staff never satisfy him vs. the public. He's crumbling mentally. Apologies for Haberman:

What the new reality of this possible economic relief keeps reminding me of is how Sanders has wasted a golden opportunity. This crisis has proven the validity of many of his positions - there’s so much of what he says that so many of us believe in, but it's always been a question of how to get there over time, or what is feasible. He has lost badly and he will never win the party. But he could've gone out with dignity and pride by joining with Biden, the candidate, and saying, ‘we’re going to work together to get you through this crisis, and make the Democratic Party of the future for both young and old, combining our strengths and shared beliefs and finding workable solutions.’ That’s what he should’ve done with Joe on Sunday as they committed to speaking to the public about Trump’s failures and how Democrats and progressives of both stripes will fix it and change our future. Instead he’s still fighting for himself, nobody else, in a fractious civil war no one else cares about anymore. To anyone outside of the faithful he looks like an old man screaming at the wind as the rest of the world burns. Through his own hubris Sanders is writing himself out of a living history and a moment that he should be at the center of in a positive way, and it’d be more tragic if it wasn’t so predictable.

I'm not pressed about polling from the last week-plus or earlier. It will get far worse for him again, just like a week ago.

Locked down in LA/Cali. One month shelter in place order for us. Meanwhile:

Another pointless briefing in which he desperately tries and fails to shift blame.