Biden not yet holding a formal news conference raises accountability questions
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-holding-formal-news-conference-raises-accountability-questions/story?id=76341787
Formal Press Conference Count during First Year as President:
Trump: 1
Obama: 7
Bill Clinton: 11
George H. W. Bush: 27
Ronald Reagan: 6
Jimmy Carter: 22
Gerald Ford: 4
Richard Nixon: 6
I'm guessing we'll see Bidens first in the next couple weeks
I was responding to Tash
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=TRUMP+PRESS+CONFERENCE+2017
That's all I had to type in. Sure seems a lot more than just one. He did plenty of press conferences and took plenty of questions from the press "informally".
The question is, who cares if it's a "formal" or "informal" press conference? As long as you answer the media's questions, does it matter? Jen Psaki said we'll get a press conference at the end of the month, the world is waiting. What I hope to see Biden pressed on: Border crossings and what his plan is to deal with the influx of immigrants. School reopenings, hopefully some reporters will point out that the EU has schools opened without uptick in cases (data is clear). And hopefully about COVID relief -- Someone should ask about potential inflation rates skyrocketing due to spending.
I guess the answer is Tash, and the media, and to some degree I care as well. Formal Presidential press conferences seem important for the country. They aren't the same as just taking a few questions here and there or joint pressers where you can hand a question off to someone else.
I was only posting the stats to show it's not that big of an irregularity yet that Biden hasn't had one. If he never has one, then yeah it would be.