(PatriotNews.net) – In the days following the presidential debate, a local radio host admitted that he received the questions he asked President Biden beforehand.
Earl Ingram, a radio host in Wisconsin, told ABC News that he was given five questions to ask during his chat with Biden but couldn’t get through all of them before the interview ended.
“Yes, I was given some questions for Biden,” Ingram told the outlet on Saturday.
Ingram, who hosts “The Earl Ingram Show” on WMCS in Milwaukee, is the second local radio host to say he received questions ahead of interviewing Biden. Andrea Lawful-Sanders, host of “The Source” on WURD in Philadelphia, told CNN’s Victor Blackwell that the questions for her interview with Biden were sent to her for approval.
“I approved them,” Lawful-Sanders said. The questions were about Biden’s accomplishments, his debate performance, progress in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, what’s at stake in the election, and what he would say to voters thinking about not voting.
Blackwell noted that the questions Lawful-Sanders asked were similar to those in Ingram’s interview with Biden. Ingram confirmed that he got questions from Biden’s team and mentioned that he didn’t get to ask everything he wanted before the time was up.
Ingram said he didn’t see anything wrong with being given the questions and was just happy to have the chance to speak to the president.
“To think that I was going to get an opportunity to ask any question to the president of the United States is a bit more than anybody should expect,” he told ABC News. “Certainly, the fact that they gave me this opportunity meant a lot to me.”
Blackwell mentioned that giving hosts the questions beforehand might not be the best way to address concerns about Biden’s fitness to win re-election or lead the country for another four years.
“It’s just that if the White House is trying now to prove the vim, vigor, acuity of the president, I don’t know how they do that by sending questions first before the interview so that the president knows what’s coming,” Blackwell told Lawful-Sanders.
In response to the Philadelphia host’s statements to CNN, Biden campaign spokesperson Lauren Hitt told Fox News Digital that it’s “not at all an uncommon practice for interviewees to share topics they would prefer.”
Hitt said, “These questions were relevant to news of the day – the president was asked about his debate performance as well as what he’d delivered for Black Americans. We do not condition interviews on acceptance of these questions, and hosts are always free to ask the questions they think will best inform their listeners.”
