The Hill journalist Joe Concha criticized former Vice President Joe Biden for not answering reporters’ questions during a speech Tuesday, noting that “President Trump has been regularly accessible during this time.”
“It seems safe spaces used to be for college students only, now they are all the rage for presidential candidates,” Concha told “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday.
Biden declined to answer journalists’ questions during a Tuesday afternoon speech in New Castle, Del., As he unveiled a plan that would cost $ 775 billion in 10 years, according to his campaign. He added that the plan would be paid by reducing tax exemptions for real estate investors with incomes above $ 400,000 and taking steps to increase tax compliance for high-income workers.
Highlighting the care for some of the younger and older Americans, the alleged Democratic presidential candidate proposes to provide a universal preschool for 3- and 4-year-olds, build new child care facilities, and expand access to a broader range of options for long-term care for the elderly.
The campaign said the plan would put 3 million Americans to work in new care and education jobs. They predict that if enacted, it would increase overall employment by approximately 5 million after accounting for the economic impacts of increased participation in the workforce after unpaid caregivers are released to pursue paid careers.
Biden’s proposal is the third part of a larger economic recovery plan called “Build Back Better” that Biden has implemented in recent weeks. The program aims to stimulate an economy flattened by the coronavirus pandemic and restore jobs lost since the outbreak swept the nation, while creating more.
“I hope to receive your questions at another time, but I’m going to another event,” Biden said at the end of his speech on Tuesday.
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Host Steve Doocy asked on Wednesday: “Isn’t it appropriate that if there are approximately 100 days to go before an election, the candidate for a major party should answer questions from the press?”
“Yes, if you want to be the leader of the free world, you probably wait to go to the next event for at least five or 10 minutes and answer some questions,” Concha said in response.
“Joe Biden didn’t do that like you said, just a press conference in 100 days, while President Trump has been regularly accessible during this time, he obviously brought back the coronavirus task force briefings yesterday and answered questions from multiple means over an extended period of an hour. “
Concha went on to point out that “the only press conference Joe Biden has ever held at this time, he received questions from exactly six reporters, including one who said, ‘What keeps you up at night while looking ahead?’ and ‘Can you keep this advantage without campaigning in the traditional way?’ ”
“So the members of the media crying over President Trump and his treatment of the press do not seem to have a problem with Joe Biden not speaking to him,” he continued.
Doocy noted that Biden “is ahead in the polls” and that the strategy of not answering reporters’ questions apparently “is working for him.”
According to the latest Fox News poll, the virus is the main problem for voters, more than half of them disapprove of the way President Trump handles it, and increasingly trust Biden to do a better job of it, which keeps the former vice president ahead. The presidential race. Biden leads by 8 points over Trump, 49-41 percent in the latest Fox News poll.
Doocy asked Concha since Biden is ahead in the polls, “why bother risking a question that doesn’t know the answer or makes it look bad?
“Hillary Clinton thought it was working for her too when she didn’t hold a press conference for 270 days during the 2016 election,” Concha said in response. “The bottom line is that you have to face scrutiny.”
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He added: “Joe Biden at some point has to define what his campaign is about and not play to avoid losing because it did not work the last time for the last Democratic candidate.”
Fox News’ Dana Blanton, Paul Steinhauser and Madeleine Rivera contributed to this report.
