President Biden’s re-election campaign has kicked off, with First Lady Jill Biden granting interviews.
This move has been criticized, with concerns that it implies the president can’t or won’t do interviews himself.
Biden’s limited press conferences and controlled interview settings have raised questions about access to the president. (Trending: Epstein’s Brother Finally Breaks His Silence)
When asked what he has been eating, Biden said: "I've been eating everything that's put in front of me! I've eaten pasta, which I love. Eaten a lot of chicken, chicken parmesan."
Then Jill Biden has to remind Joe: "And ice cream!" pic.twitter.com/UMEzsvK0Cj
— AnalyzingAmerica (@AnalyzAmerica) January 5, 2024
Critics argue that this approach may not be in the spirit of democracy.
“Voters can surely infer she is only doing the interviews because the president can’t or won’t,” DePauw University professor Jeffrey McCall said.
The president’s media engagement strategy is seen as similar to the one used in his 2020 campaign, focusing on controlled interactions and limiting unscripted situations.
“Each question contained the answer, and was so weakly and apologetically asked that it was a JOKE which should be considered a campaign contribution to the Democrat Party,” Trump said of Biden’s interview on “60 Minutes”.
“Joe Biden appears ready to run the same campaign in 2024 that he ran in 2020 – the so-called ‘basement strategy’: Don’t interact at all in uncontrolled situations, limit yourself to subservient media, and make the election about Donald Trump,” Cornell Law School professor William A. Jacobson said.
“Biden staying in the ‘basement’ keeps the media focus on Trump. Whatever downside there may be to the basement strategy, it’s the best strategy Biden has.”
“It seems to me the press should start getting louder about lack of access to the president,” McCall said.
“For all the talk about threats to democracy, having a president who is inaccessible to the press and the citizenry is also rather undemocratic.”
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