On Saturday, NBC’s Today show took time to share one of the top media concerns in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic – that the crisis has hampered likely Democratic nominee Joe Biden’s ability to campaign. Meanwhile, the network broadcast fretted that daily White House briefings about the virus had provided President Trump with a “substitute for campaign rallies.”

“The coronavirus pandemic has temporarily transformed nearly every aspect of American life, including the race for the White House,” correspondent Geoff Bennett told viewers. He then declared: “And with President Trump seizing the national spotlight day by day from the White House, the Democratic candidates have had to find new ways to connect with voters.”

Bennett lamented: “For President Trump, daily briefings are now his daily substitute for campaign rallies...The President, who initially downplayed the virus’s impact, boosting his re-election bid by blanketing the airwaves.”

“Former Vice President Joe Biden, like most Americans, is following the CDC guidance to stay at home and it threatens to blunt his momentum,” the reporter warned, before touting how the Democratic frontrunner “installed a television studio in his basement to help step up his public presence.”

The fawning segment highlighted how Biden “holds virtual press briefings” and even “appeared on a digital edition of Jimmy Kimmel.”

On March 25, MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell feared Trump’s approval rating “skyrocketing” due to his response to the crisis and bemoaned Biden “having difficultly” getting his campaign message out.

Perhaps it was due to all the liberal media concern about Biden that Meet the Press moderator Chuck Todd invited the former Vice President on the Sunday show for a softball interview. During that exchange Todd urged a vicious attack against Trump, asking: “Do you think there is blood on the President’s hands?”

Here is a full transcript of the March 28 segment on Saturday’s Today show: