Hours after becoming the presumptive 2020 Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden is touting the possibility he could woo Republican women away from President Trump.

Biden told donors during a virtual fundraiser from his home in Delaware one of the reasons he won "big" in the Super Tuesday state of Virginia was his appeal to women.

"Because of Republican women who could cross over as well as independents as well as Democrats showing up to vote. As well as high school-educated, working-class people, some of them who moved to Trump last time," the two-term vice president said Wednesday.

On Wednesday morning, Bernie Sanders, Biden's last remaining rival to become the Democratic standard-bearer, dropped out of the race. The Vermont senator's exit clears the path for Delaware's 36-year senator to nab his party's nomination this cycle.

Throughout the primary, Biden pegged his campaign on his "electability," specifically his ability to connect to centrist Republicans disillusioned by Trump. To illustrate the point, Wednesday's fundraiser was moderated by Chuck Hagel, once a Republican senator from Nebraska who later was defense secretary in President Barack Obama's second term, before leaving the Democratic administration over a policy disagreement regarding ISIS and other issues.

During the online event, Biden repeated his criticism of Trump's handling of the novel coronavirus pandemic. He called for a “supply commander," although Rear Adm. John Polowczyk heads theFederal Emergency Management Agency's Supply Chain Stabilization Task Force.

“Our present troops, states, and hospitals are now bidding against one another for the federal government to get supplies they desperately need. We can't let price gougers take advantage of the market run amok," Biden said.

He added: “This all should be moving as if we’re at war. And that sounds like a trite analogy, but that really is true.”