2020 candidates are seizing every opportunity to reach a fragmented voting public that doesn’t always watch the evening news
Preet Bharara surprised his own mother during last week’s interview with presidential candidate Andrew Yang.
Podcasts, late-night programs and web shows are increasingly serving as off-ramps from the daily news churn, offering candidates opportunities for more freewheeling conversations and showing off their personalities or pop culture bonafides to a variety of audiences. And in a packed Democratic field, candidates are seizing every opportunity to reach a fragmented voting public that doesn’t always watch the evening news.
Democratic presidential candidates aren’t about to turn down invites from MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow or the “Morning Joe” crew, with the exception of Joe Biden, who has been eschewing most media interviews. They’ll surely keep hitting town hall stages on CNN and Fox News and must-stops like ABC’s “The View” and CBS’s “Late Night with Stephen Colbert.” And everyone wants to make this month’s debate on NBC, MSNBC and Telemundo.
Candidates have also talked to former Obama strategist David Axelrod and Vox’s Ezra Klein, and at least a dozen 2020 hopefuls have flocked toposter="http://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201905/812/1155968404_6036791815001_6036794945001-vs.
Peter Hamby, who began hosting Snapchat’s “Good Luck America” show during the 2016 election, noted that “new formats and new shows have been evolving and mutating since the birth of the smartphone” more than a decade ago.
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