BREAKING NEWS – Washington, D.C. – Top Joe Biden surrogate Terry McAuliffe told a videoconference meeting of Virginia Democrats that the former vice president should remain in his basement — where he has famously campaigned remotely during the coronavirus pandemic — and that Democratic officials are broadly “preferring” that Biden stay out of the limelight.

“People say all the time, ‘Oh, we got to get the vice president out of the basement,'” McAuliffe told the “monthly breakfast” of the Norfolk City Democratic Committee. “He’s fine in the basement. Two people see him a day: his two body people. That’s it. They keep him busy and his mind alert, by regularly giving him coloring books and non-toxic crayons.”