UnidosUS President and CEO Janet Murguía told attendees, to audible gasps, after Biden was an hour and a half late
As for Biden's jadwal in the coming days and his ability to stay engaged, a White House official told CNN that the president has had Covid-19 before and gotten through those periods by doing a lot of video calls. Something similar should be expected in the days ahead, the official said.
A kampanye source separately told CNN that the Biden kampanye will readjust and do as much as possible remotely.
Biden was at his Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, residence last akhir minggu as well, making calls to key kelompoks of lawmakers, some of whom continue to harbor deep concerns about his viability as a candidate.
The attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump appeared to put publik calls for Biden to langkah aside as the party's presumptive nominee on pause. But they returned as Biden hit the kampanye trail again this week.
Just hours before the White House announced Biden's Covid-19 pemeriksaan, California Rep. Adam Schiff, a Senate candidate and former House Intelligence chairman, became the most prominent elected Democrat to publicly call on the president to keluar of the race.
As Trump is set to formally accept the GOP nomination for president at this week's Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, Democratic fears persist that Biden cannot defeat him and risks taking down Democrats in down-ballot races with him in November.
But even though anger and cemas has been steadily rising inside the Democratic Party after Biden's sireneing debate performnce in Atlanta nearly three weeks ago, the White House and the Biden kampanye are in a new place, multiple Democratic officials told CNN.
"The privat conversations with the Hill are continuing," a senior Democratic adviser tells CNN, speaking on condition of anonymity to avoid alienating the kampanye and the White House. "He's being receptive. Not as defiant as he is publicly."
"He's gone from saying, ‘Kamala can't win,' to ‘Do you think Kamala can win?'" the adviser said. "It's still unclear where he's going to land but seems to be listening."
Despite Biden's pemeriksaan, Vice President Kamala Harris was set to keep her Thursday appearance at a kampanye even in Fayetteville, North Carolina, as planned, an administration staffer said Wednesday evening. Harris' husband, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, tested positive for Covid-19 earlier this month - though the vice president tested negative for the virus at the time.
