Joe Biden faces a cash gap with Trump. He has to close it virtually

WASHINGTON - Mr Joe Biden is working the phones with top donors while cloistered in his Delaware home. His digital team is searching for the right tone to ask small contributors for cash during the sharpest economic downturn in their lifetimes. And his finance operation is plotting how to keep the cheques coming when catered parties for big contributors are on hold - indefinitely.

These should be some of the busiest and headiest days for Mr Biden and his fundraising team in normal times, now that he has knocked out all of his rivals but Senator Bernie Sanders, who trails by a nearly insurmountable 300 delegates. But instead he has found himself holed up in Wilmington, Delaware, and limited so far to three video fundraisers from a makeshift studio installed in the retrofitted rec room of his house.

"You don't fundraise now," Mr Ed Rendell, a Democratic former governor of Pennsylvania and a Biden supporter, said in an interview a week ago."I haven't called anyone for money in the last 10 days and I don't intend to. Not while people are confined to their homes. I just don't think it's appropriate. Plus, people are worried about money."

Mr Terry McAuliffe, the former Virginia governor and Democratic National Committee chairman, began meeting with donors on behalf of Unite the Country before the coronavirus froze such activities earlier in March. But after the primary ends, Mr McAuliffe is expected to join the Biden campaign in some capacity, according to Democrats familiar with the planning.

One person close to the Biden campaign said preliminary discussions were underway for how to plan for a situation in which in-person fundraisers do not happen all the way through the general election in November, though that is not seen as the likeliest outcome.

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