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Trump and Biden Play Phone-a-Friend in Cable News Battle of the Landlines
Joe Biden and Donald Trump called into MSNBC and Fox News on Monday. Biden came off as the underdog and Trump, for now, as the dissembling top dog
And his energy in delivering an anti-Biden screed about the likelihood of World War III under the incumbent president’s watch seemed tepid to nonexistent — it was a low-energy stump speech at precisely the moment Trump has inherited the wind. If Biden could subject himself to an interview that didn’t so obviously call to mind Trump’s lazy-man style of campaigning-by-phone, reaching out to the cable news show most obviously congenial to his perspective and most willing to let the tape run, shouldn’t he have? Over audio-only cable-news appearances in the 2016 campaign, including calls into “Fox & Friends,” Trump established a cultlike hold over his party by insisting, contra reality, that “I alone” could win the race.
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