USA Today/Gannett: Voters trust Biden to handle a crisis but wins Tuesday lose spotlight to coronavirus concerns

WASHINGTON – The question before Tuesday night’s latest round of voting wasn’t whether Joe Biden would expand his delegate lead over Bernie Sanders.

He did – with big wins in Florida, Illinois and Arizona that will increase the pressure on Sanders to end his campaign and allow Democrats to turn their full attention to President Donald Trump.

But as voters went to the polls for the first time since a national emergency was declared over the coronavirus pandemic, the spotlight turned to how elections could be safely conducted and who is the right chief for this critical time. …

In all three states that voted, some polling places were moved or closed because of a lack of workers, shortages of cleaning supplies, or to relocate polls from senior centers.

“It made for a day at the polls really not like any we’ve seen before,” said David Vance, spokesman for the voting rights group Common Cause.