Democrats, media demand Biden do more interviews, press conferences amid debate fallout [Video]

Members of the media and prominent Democrats are calling on President Biden to engage more with the press following a disastrous debate performance that left many worried about the president’s chances of beating Donald Trump in the fall. 

“The only way for him and the campaign to respond is not by talking to senators or governors, because this is not a tell me situation. It’s a show me situation. So he’d have to be out and about in the hurly-burly of a campaign, open-ended press conferences with folks like you, engagements with voters that are unscripted,” Sen. Peter Welch, D-Vt., told CNN on Wednesday. “I do think that the response here would have to involve being very much in the public in an unscripted situation, as opposed to a few interviews or conversations …