WASHINGTON — “Scream” actress Drew Barrymore has scored President Biden’s first TV sitdown since final month’s midterm elections.
Barrymore, 47, host of the weekday morning CBS program “The Drew Barrymore Present,” taped an interview with Biden and his spouse, Jill, on the White Home on Friday, although this system received’t air till Monday, Dec. 19.
Biden, 80, has given far fewer interviews than his current predecessors.
Since Election Day on Nov. 8, Biden referred to as in to NBC’s protection of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade and taped a radio interview with an Atlanta station on Dec. 5 forward of Georgia’s Senate runoff election.
The Factba.se repository of Biden remarks recognized no different interviews, although it’s attainable others both had been off the report or gained little public discover.
Biden’s 42 interviews as of Sept 30 pale compared to Ronald Reagan’s 92, George H.W. Bush’s 90, Invoice Clinton’s 86, George W. Bush’s 80, Barack Obama’s 231, and Donald Trump’s 143 on the similar level of their presidencies. Reagan greater than doubled the variety of Biden’s interviews regardless of being shot within the lung in an assassination try shortly after he took workplace.
Biden has given interviews to different less-conventional questioners. On Feb. 25, he taped a 13-minute podcast with Democratic activist Brian Cohen and an almost 30-minute dialog with left-leaning Boston School professor Heather Richardson.
Cohen acknowledged afterward that “I’m not a journalist … I've my agenda and I believe this White Home is doing an excellent job making an attempt to enact a few of it. Our objectives are aligned.”
At factors, Biden has appeared wanting to counter the notion that he’s unavailable to the press — and his aides level out that he’s exceeded Trump’s tally for casual question-and-answer periods, with 326 as of Sept. 30 in comparison with Trump’s 255, although Biden’s exchanges are usually a lot shorter.
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