#Now 2020 campaigns go into high gear — except for Biden, who’ll apparently be resting

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Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, leave an event in Milwaukee during last week’s DNC.
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With the conventions over, one of the strangest presidential races in American history moves into high gear.

Or, well, sort of: It’s still not clear how much Democratic nominee Joe Biden will campaign. He’s so far only talked of visiting four swing states between now and Nov. 3 and says his campaign is still figuring out exactly how he’ll do even that. Biden is managing to meet with special-interest donors: He dropped news of his travel plans Thursday at a fundraiser with trial lawyers.

Yet his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris, is making it to Florida for a campaign event on Saturday. Is her staff just better at making arrangements?

It sure looks like Biden is using the virus as an excuse to limit his public events. He tired rapidly on the campaign trail during the primaries and seems unwilling to focus — witness his rather off-target answer Friday to a question about the cop who shot Jacob Blake, wandering off into charges about President Trump and white extremists without ever answering.

Trump, meanwhile, did his first post-convention event Friday night in New Hampshire, and plainly means to travel as much as he can, though the pandemic ensures his rallies will be smaller than in 2016.

Of course, the virus is also a central campaign issue — or, rather, Biden’s charge that Trump utterly bungled Washington’s response. We look forward to hearing him ­explain how — since Biden and his advisers at the time said Trump was wrong to restrict travel from China and then from Europe.

And if his only evidence of Trump failure is simply the size of the US death toll, what does that say about the Democratic governors of hard-hit New York and New Jersey?

Maybe Democrats figure those details don’t matter. As their convention made plain, the strategy centers on painting Trump’s America as a dark dystopia — not just COVID-plagued, but full of “structural racism,” too — and Biden as the miracle man who can fix it.

Maybe enough voters will hold Trump to blame for the pandemic, and the ensuing economic collapse, that it won’t matter. But it’ll be a lot easier for them to have any faith in Biden if they get some chance to see for themselves if he’s actually up to the ­demands of the presidency.