Radio hosts say Biden's campaign aides provided questions before interviews
Two radio hosts said on Saturday that President Joe Biden's aides provided questions for them to ask him in recent interviews.
WASHINGTON — Two radio hosts said Saturday that President Joe Biden’s campaign aides provided questions for them to ask him in recent interviews.
The move, which is not standard journalistic practice, came as the Biden campaign worked on damage control following his widely criticized debate performance.
“The questions were sent to me for approval,” said Andrea Lawful-Sanders, the host of WURD’s “The Source” in Philadelphia, in a CNN interview.
“I got several questions. Eight of them,” she told CNN anchor Victor Blackwell, who noted that the hosts’ questions for the president were similar. “And the four that were chosen were the ones that I approved.”
The other host who interviewed Biden, WAUK’s Earl Ingram, was part of the same CNN panel and did not dispute Lawful-Sanders’ description of how the questions were chosen. He did not provide his own account to CNN, but later told ABC News that he was “given some questions for Biden.”
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