Pelosi: Biden 'doing fine' campaigning virtually

The coronavirus pandemic is rewriting the rules of the fall elections, and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi acknowledged that voter turnout will be key as Democrats push alternatives to in-person ballots.

As the party's presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden shelters at home, campaigning via video from his basement, Pelosi said he's doing “just fine” in the new normal of an election year.

“It’s not as if he’s missing a big crowd someplace,” she said in an interview with the Associated Press.

“We’re in a whole new world, and I think he’s doing just fine,” she said.

Pelosi is often seen as the de facto leader of the Democratic Party, the highest-ranking elected official, setting the agenda and message. But now she says of Biden: “He is the leader of the Democratic Party.”