Sunday Show Blackout: Team Biden Fully Embraces 'Basement Strategy'

As Bronson noted, "Fox News Sunday" anchor Chris Wallace expressed his astonishment at the Biden campaign's media avoidance strategy on my radio show this past Friday. Not only has the presumptive Democratic nominee declined Wallace's persistent invitations to appear on his show for a rigorous interview (President Trump gave Wallace a full hour, in spite of his public criticisms of Wallace), Biden's running mate has taken zero questions from anyone since her selection -- and the campaign itself decided against participating on any Sunday show on convention eve. Wallace, a veteran journalist who moderated the final general election presidential debate of the last cycle, was astounded:
 

👀 Chris Wallace: The Biden campaign is shutting out all Sunday shows on convention eve, a continuation of their serial avoidance of tough Q’s. Bernie Sanders independently offered himself up as a surrogate. “It’s the damnedest thing I’ve ever seen.” https://t.co/YeULhk0j0H

— Guy Benson (@guypbenson) August 14, 2020

 Later in the interview, Wallace said, "I'll tell you another little bit of inside baseball: So Bernie Sanders went out independently to several of the Sunday shows and said, 'Hey I'd like to come on.' And in the absence of anybody from the Biden campaign, several of the [other] Sunday shows are taking him. Now, here's a question, do you think it's helpful to the Biden campaign that perhaps the leading Democrat who's going to be out on Sunday -- the day before the convention, with coverage in the Monday papers -- is Bernie Sanders?" Bernie as a top Biden surrogate certainly fuels a certain GOP talking point, but apparently Team Biden is comfortable with that.

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