CNN’s Brian Stelter Asks Biden Camp: ‘Shouldn’t You Be Providing Biden to the Press More Often?’

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden has held few public events while hosting a lot of virtual events.

However, as President Donald Trump has ramped up his attacks on Biden, he has suggested that the former vice president has not been doing many national TV interviews because he would not be able to handle it.

On Sunday, CNN’s Brian Stelter pressed Biden campaign National Press Secretary T. J. Ducklo on the low number of interviews compared to Trump.

He noted that from June through July, Biden conducted 15 interviews while Trump sat for at least 30 interviews during that same time period.

He asked Ducklo, “Shouldn’t you be providing Biden to the press more often?”

“Well, we had a press conference this week,” Ducklo responded. “And since March 1st, Vice President has done nearly 100 interviews with every network including Fox News.”

Ducklo also took a shot at Trump’s interviews and said that many of them have been with outlets that tend to have more favorable coverage of his administration.

But, Stelter went on to note that during an interview with Fox News’ Chris Wallace, Trump claimed Biden would be “on the ground crying for mommy” if he sat through a tough interview.

Stelter asked why Biden is not doing more interviews and press conferences to “prove wrong.”

“Look what said to Chris Wallace a couple weeks ago. He said ‘let Biden sit through an interview like this, he’ll be on the ground crying for mommy.’ Biden did do an interview on MSNBC the next day, so the idea that Biden can’t do an interview is a lie. But he’s going to keep lying. He’s going to keep saying it for three more months, so why not prove him wrong every day by having daily press conferences and giving daily interviews?”