Hover pop up to not block underlying features from showing their pop up?

[Rice_GIS]

Hello,

First, let me say that I am NOT a pro developer, but wanted to see if this problem might have a solution. I'm developing a javascript web map and am including a hover-pop up function. However, I'm experiencing a "blocking" effect by the hovering pop up. This "blocking" effect of the pop up is preventing the pop up from appearing for underlying features.

I added this screenshot to help convey what I'm trying to explain with "blocking"

Rice_GIS_0-1663251430828.png The pop seems to block the pop up from opening the new pop up for the other feature behind it. 

Code for the hover function is attached. Is there a way to add a code for the map to "listen" for features that might be underneath the pop up?  Thank you in advance!

//Setup Hover Pop up
 function changeCursor(response) {
        if (response.results.length > 0) {
          document.getElementById("viewDiv").style.cursor = "pointer";
        } else {
          document.getElementById("viewDiv").style.cursor = "default";
        }
      }

      function getGraphics(response) {
        view.graphics.removeAll();
        if (response.results.length > 0) {
          var graphic = response.results[0].graphic;
          graphic.symbol = {
            type: "simple-fill",
            style: "none",
            outline: { // autocasts as new SimpleLineSymbol()
              color: "orange",
              width: 1
            }
          }
          view.graphics.add(graphic);
        }
      }

      function showPopup(response) {
        view.popup.close();
        if (response.results.length > 0) {
          view.popup.open({
            title:response.results[0].graphic.attributes.NAME + ' County',
            content: 'Number of Sensitive Species: ' + response.results[0].graphic.attributes.FREQUENCY,
            location: response.results[0].graphic.geometry.centroid
          });
        }
      }

      view.when(function () {
        view.whenLayerView(layer).then(function (lview) {
          watchUtils.whenFalseOnce(lview, "updating", function () {
            // Set up a click event handler and retrieve the screen x, y coordinates
            view.on("pointer-move", function (evt) {
              var screenPoint = {
                x: evt.x,
                y: evt.y
              };

              // the hitTest() checks to see if any graphics in the view
              // intersect the given screen x, y coordinates
              view.hitTest(screenPoint)
                .then(function (response) {
                  changeCursor(response);
                  getGraphics(response);
                  showPopup(response);
                });
            });
          });
        });
      });
		const legend = new Legend({ view: view });
        // Expand widget to expand and contract the legend widget
        const legendExpand = new Expand({
          expandTooltip: "Show Legend",
          expanded: false,
          view: view,
          content: legend,
        });