President Trump may claim he loathes the media, but in reality, he obsessively craves constant coverage by the press as much as they need him. For all the tough talk about “fake news,” Trump is about as accessible to the press as any president we’ve had in generations, taking near-daily press conferences and sitting for blistering interviews from Axios’s Jonathan Swan and Fox News’s Chris Wallace.
The media may have come around to backing Joe Biden wholeheartedly, but the former vice president is showing them no love. Biden’s team has repeatedly rejected interview requests from Wallace. But it’s not just a blanket boycott of Fox News. Neither Biden nor running mate Kamala Harris go on the Sunday shows or sit down for any hard-hitting, in-person interviews. Same story with regard to publicly aired press conference questions.
