Another local radio host who interviewed President Biden in the days following the presidential debate admitted he received the questions in advance.
Speaking to ABC News, Wisconsin radio host Earl Ingram confirmed that he was given five questions to ask Biden during their recent sit-down and that he was unable to answer all of them before the interview ended.
“Yes, I was given some questions for Biden,” Ingram told the outlet on Saturday.
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Another local radio host confirmed that he received questions from President Biden's team ahead of his interview with the US leader. (Screenshot/CBS)
Ingram, who hosts “The Earl Ingram Show” on WMCS in Milwaukee, was the second local radio host this weekend to admit he was given a list of questions to use in the Biden interview.
Andrea Lawful-Sanders, who hosts “The Source” on WURD in Philadelphia, told CNN anchor Victor Blackwell on Saturday that questions for her interview with Biden “were sent to me for approval.”
“I approved them,” Lawful-Sanders told Blackwell, who detailed the questions, saying they were about Biden's accomplishments, his debate performance, progress in both Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, what's at stake in the election and what he would say to voters who are considering not voting in the presidential election.
The CNN anchor also noted that the questions the Philadelphia host asked were “essentially the same” as those in Biden's interview with Ingram, who was also interviewed by Blackwell along with Lawful-Sanders.
Ingram confirmed to ABC News that Biden's team did give him questions and said he “didn't get a chance to ask him all the things” he wanted to before time ran out.
The outlet reported that the host said he didn't see anything too problematic about being asked the questions and was happy to have the opportunity to speak with the president.
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Radio host Andrea Lawful Sanders revealed on CNN that the Biden campaign sent questions ahead of the interview. (Screenshot/CNN)
“To think that I was going to have the opportunity to ask the president of the United States some questions, I think, is a little bit more than anyone should expect,” he told the outlet, adding: “Certainly the fact that I was given this opportunity… meant a lot to me.”
As Blackwell said while speaking to Lawful-Sanders, having hosts field questions before their interviews with Biden may not be the best way to downplay growing concerns that Biden is unfit to win reelection or lead the country for another four years.
The CNN anchor told his guest: “It's just that if the White House is trying now to demonstrate the President's vigor and wit and verve, I don't know how they do it by sending questions first before the interview so the President knows what's coming.”
Responding to the Philadelphia host's remarks to CNN, Biden campaign spokeswoman Lauren Hitt told Fox News Digital that “it's not at all an uncommon practice for interviewees to share their preferred topics.”
Hitt's statement continued: “These questions were relevant to the news of the day: The President was asked about his performance in the debate and what he had said to Black Americans. We do not condition interviews on acceptance of these questions, and hosts are always free to ask questions they believe will best inform their listeners.”
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