Wall Street Journal: “Mr. Biden’s team is ramping up its outreach to liberals, trying to ease tensions between the Democratic establishment and left-leaning activists and young people as he works to build a coalition to defeat Republican President Trump in November. Mr. Biden has earned endorsements from his top competitors for the 2020 presidential nomination, including Mr. Sanders and fellow liberal Sen. Elizabeth Warren, but hasn’t yet won over all of their former backers.”

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) tamped down speculation that she would be picked as Joe Biden’s running mate, the Detroit News reports.

Said Whitmer: “I think it’s important that he has a woman running mate, to be honest. I think that there are a lot of phenomenal potential running mates for him.”

She added: “I’m going to help him vet and make sure he’s got a great running mate. It is not going to be me. But I’m going to have a hand in helping make sure that that he has got the rounded out ticket that can win.”

“A group commissioned a poll in two Midwestern swing states to test the viability of women of color to be Joe Biden’s vice presidential pick and found Stacey Abrams as the top choice for black voters — but Elizabeth Warren as the overall candidate to beat,” Axios reports.

“Kamala Harris was the only candidate of color to break the top three for overall support, along with Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Warren… But Warren reflected the most consistent support among white and black voters in both states.”

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Charlie Cook: “The Trump reelection strategy has long been to keep his base not only intact but enthusiastic, with economic growth being the not-so-secret sauce that would get them to 270 electoral votes, regardless of the popular vote. But now Trump finds himself racing against the clock, trying to get economic growth back to where it needs to be before Nov. 3. But that calibration—how to bring growth back without risking a second or third wave of the pandemic—that is a challenge befitting a chief executive.”

Michael Kruse: “A quarter of a century has passed. Trump, of course, is no longer the cash-strapped operator of gaudy gambling halls on the New Jersey shore but the president of the United States. Once again, though, he is in dire straits. Thanks to the coronavirus pandemic and its attendant economic wreckage, the possibility that he could be re-elected has never seemed less certain. The annals of American history are littered with presidents brought down by their failures to deal with a national crisis, from Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression to Lyndon B. Johnson and the Vietnam War to Jimmy Carter and the Iran hostage affair and the oil shock.”

“Those presidents, though, had something else in common, too. They were not Donald Trump.”

“Because from the early ‘90s, when bankers and lenders in New York and state regulators in New Jersey could have all but ended him, to his herky-jerky presidential campaign in 2015 and ’16, to his aberrant, hyperactive presidency, Trump has built an astonishingly consistent record of surviving crises, of dodging the comeuppance everyone assumes is coming his way, and then turning seeming calamity into his next great opportunity—and emerging not just intact but emboldened.”

Jessica Taylor: “With the Senate firmly in play, Democrats showed their fundraising mettle during the first quarter of 2020 as GOP incumbents lagged behind their likely challengers in many top contests. The disparity is only further evidence that political momentum is largely on the side of Democrats as they continue to expand the battlefield of competitive races.”

“In our four races, we rate as Toss Up, every endangered Republican was outraised by their probable Democratic opponent, in nearly 2-to-1 margins or more across the board. In total, Democrats in these four most competitive contests outraised Republican incumbents by an average of $3.3 million.”

“The coronavirus is poised to reshape the political map, pummeling battleground states and alarming Republicans who see early signs of an election that could be a referendum on President Donald Trump’s management of the crisis,” the AP reports.

“The pandemic, which has killed more than 30,000 Americans and left millions out of work, has eviscerated Trump’s hope to run for reelection on a strong economy. A series of states he won in 2016 could tilt toward Democrats.”

“In Florida, a Republican governor closely aligned with Trump has come under scrutiny for being slow to close the state. In Wisconsin, the Democratic victor in last week’s Supreme Court race captured 28 counties, up from the 12 that Hillary Clinton won four years ago. In Michigan, a Democratic governor has seen her approval rating rise against the backdrop of a fight with Trump. And in Arizona, low marks for Trump could be enough to turn the formerly Republican stronghold into a tossup.”