WASHINGTON D.C. (WSAU) – With Iowa caucuses only a few days away, the Biden campaign is ramping up its message by reportedly including off-the-record meetings with top mainstream media reporters at the campaign’s headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware.
According to Semafor, the campaign uses the meetings to educate media officials about their mistakes. Two people familiar with the incident told Semafor that during meetings with reporters from The New York Times, the Washington Post, and other publications, Biden campaign managers used a “coverage spreadsheet” to highlight areas where the team believes their reporting has fallen short.
Except for their most recent meeting with the Times, a source close to the campaign told Semafor that meetings had been “substantive” and “productive.” Biden staffers are also scheduled to meet in Wilmington in the coming days with political reporting teams from ABC, NBC, The Wall Street Journal, Fox, NPR, Reuters, Bloomberg, and other outlets.
The source further told Semafor that one particular issue that came up was that Biden campaign officials were annoyed with some of the coverage of former President Donald Trump. They felt that media outlets were focusing too much on his legal issues and not enough on some of his recent remarks made while campaigning.
Recent polls from USA Today/Suffolk as well as the Morning Consult show an expected 2024 general election between Trump and Biden as a close race, with Trump ahead in both polls by only one point. USA Today/Suffolk found 30% of respondents believe the U.S. economy is in a recession, while 58% disapproved of the president’s job performance overall.
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