“Vice President Biden should have just as much responsibility as the Sanders folks are asked to have around bringing the party together and really being unified,” María Urbina, the political director of the liberal political organization Indivisible, said on MSNBC. “And in order to do that, there has to be a little more digging and listening” to the party’s left wing. To some degree, Michelle Cottle writes in The Times, Mr. Biden is showing signs of doing so.

‘Biden needs to say now who’ll be in his White House’

Mr. Biden needs to think carefully about his vice-presidential pick, says the Times columnist Frank Bruni. For one thing, he’s 77 years old, and would be 78 upon inauguration, so voters may care even more than usual about the other name on the ticket. But also, “Biden’s message is competence, experience and normalcy,” Mr. Bruni writes. “The Democratic vice-presidential nominee must reflect that. If that nominee is a woman, a person of color or both, all the better.”

Mr. Biden should also announce picks for his cabinet, Will Bunch argues at The Philadelphia Inquirer. Suspicion already abounds among young progressives that he might fill his administration with “Wall Street hacks.” The solution, Mr. Bunch says, is to announce a team that signals “a better normal” (with Gov. Jay Inslee in charge of climate policy or the Environmental Protection Agency, for example). “The emphasis ought to be not just on competence — reminding voters that the grown-ups will be in charge after four years of Trump — but also to show young people that even if Biden isn’t a card-carrying leftist, his presidency would still be the most progressive one in modern U.S. history,” Mr. Bunch writes.