American president Joe Biden will likely break tradition on Sunday night when he doesn’t sit for a traditional presidential interview during the Super Bowl LVII broadcast.
According to one report this week, Fox News blamed Biden for the Super Bowl snafu.
“A source at Fox News told me Thursday evening that the right-wing channel has not heard back on whether Biden will grant it the traditional pre-Super Bowl interview,” CNN senior media reporter Oliver Darcy wrote in the Reliable Sources newsletter. “And that at this point the outlet is proceeding as if it is not going to take place.”
On Friday night, Biden’s White House struck back, saying that Fox News’ blame was “inaccurate.”
“As we said earlier, we had arranged an interview with FOX Sports Host Mike Hill & Vivica A. Fox with the President ahead of the Super Bowl and Fox Corp. had the interview canceled,” the White House statement said. “Fox has since put out a statement indicating the interview was rescheduled, which is inaccurate.”
Biden appeared for interviews during the previous two Super Bowls. Former president Donald Trump, for his part, also skipped an interview during the Super Bowl with NBC News.
The NFL world was quick to react to the news:
Only time will tell how the move will affect Biden with average voters.