Stay relevant

In the fog of the pandemic, Mr. Biden has had trouble maintaining his national visibility, as Matt Viser and Annie Linskey report for The Washington Post. While Mr. Trump speaks to millions every day from the West Wing, Mr. Biden has had to scramble for virtual attention from his basement in Wilmington, Del., where his webcam has occasionally gotten the better of him. Some Democrats have privately told him that “his low profile was driving broad concerns that he wasn’t capitalizing on Trump’s widely panned early response,” Mr. Viser and Ms. Linskey write.

But other Democrats think that concerns about Mr. Biden’s virtual campaigning problems are overblown, Ryan Lizza writes in Politico. According to the sources he spoke to, “he can defeat Trump in a general election the same way he has almost won the Democratic nomination: just by being there.”

Convince the skeptics

Mr. Biden must do more to expand his appeal, according to Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who pointed to Mr. Biden’s underperformance with young people and Latinos in an interview with The Times. “I don’t think this conversation about changes that need to be made is one about throwing the progressive wing of the party a couple of bones — I think this is about how we can win,” she said.

On Monday, Mr. Biden and Mr. Sanders announced they would form six joint “task forces” on education, climate change, the economy, immigration, health care and criminal justice, a plan that some progressives greeted with tentative approval. Cristina Jiménez, an immigration activist, tweeted: