In attacking PBS reporter Yamiche Alcindor, Trump reveals once again the depth of his racism and sexism. When the two intersect as they did here, it is ugly. Alcindor is a terrific and intrepid reporter. I hope her colleagues expressed their solidarity to her and objected to this nasty attack.

We should be realists. Biden is surging and will continue to do so. Bernie, on the other hand, has no path to the nomination. If last week’s primary results didn’t convince us of this, then next week’s should. The principal task at this moment and over the next few months is to “begin” a process of unifying the Democratic Party and the anti-Trump coalition.

The author of the Coronavirus bill was Nancy Pelosi and House Democrats. This wasn’t the bill that Trump and Congressional Republicans would have written. But they had little choice but to sign onto it. Once again we see the importance of Democrats winning the House in 2018.

Biden isn’t Bernie, but he isn’t an advocate of standing in place either. He’s a reformer of moderate disposition who, I believe, won’t ignore the deep and broad yearnings and pressures for change if he wins. And I believe he can win. And that conviction has only grown in recent weeks.

The coronavirus has reminded the country once again, but in a way that was unimaginable a few months ago, of the imperative of defeating Trump and gang this fall. I have to think that the terrain on which the election will be fought out has changed in significant and fundamental ways as tens of millions experience the ineptness and incorrigible lying of Trump and his administration in a new way. Even if the virus is behind us by the fall and even if we avoid a major and lasting downturn, the trauma and experience of people across the country with this shape shifting pandemic will remain and find its way into the elections.