Biden's campaign is painting Trump as campaigning from a basement. (Peter Zay/Anadolu via Getty Images | Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images )
Trump's team further pointed to Biden's accessibility and frequency of interviews, as well as his tendency not to accept many questions from the press during speeches or events. In the first three months of 2024, Biden has participated in three on-camera interviews — one with late-night host Seth Meyers, one with Robert Costa of CBS and one with MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart. He did not sit for a Super Bowl interview in February despite the informal establishment of it as something of a tradition for presidents in the 21st century.
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In reference to the president's interview schedule, which also featured several radio and digital hits, spokesperson Andrew Bates said in a statement to Fox News Digital, "There are lots of folks who can’t keep up with Joe Biden."
According to the University of California-Santa Barbara's American Presidency Project, Biden has fallen behind his predecessors when it comes to transparency and press accessibility. During his first term so far, Biden has given only 33 news conferences, compared to Trump's 57 at the same point and former President Obama's 69.
Trump has been appearing in court ahead of his various trials. (Adam Gray for Fox News Digital)
Democratic strategist Max Burns felt differently.
"In a race that both sides agree will be decided by razor-thin vote margins, it isn't viable for a candidate to take weeks off the campaign to focus on his personal financial and legal issues," Burns said. "Trump is spending more and more campaign time at Mar-a-Lago, where he's holding a nonstop stream of fundraisers to help him pay his enormous civil fraud bond."
He added that he expects Trump to lose polling stature against Biden the longer he remains away from the campaign trail.
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Robert Shapiro, a political science professor at Columbia University, described the Biden campaign's effort as its way of taking "on the view that Biden is less energetic and more affected by age than Trump."
Biden and Trump are the presumptive nominees for their respective parties. (Getty Images)
"I do not think this can have any more than a marginal short-term effect now," Shapiro said. This sentiment was echoed by Heye, who claimed, "None of this matters in March." The Nov. 5 general election is more than 222 days away
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While there remains ample time for developments in the election, Shapiro said, "It could have a more cumulative effect" later on.
What is "more important" for Biden, he said, is his maintained presence in the battleground states and the ability to "draw visible comparisons with Trump on all fronts where Trump is vulnerable." Trump's presence or lack thereof "is less an issue," he added.
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