Biden camp thinks the media just doesn’t get it

The vice president’s allies say neither detractors in the media, nor his rivals on the stump, understand the root of his appeal.

The first thing you notice at a Joe Biden event is the age: Many of the reporters covering him are really young. Biden is not. The press corps, or so the Biden campaign sees it, is culturally liberal and highly attuned to modern issues around race and gender and social justice. Biden is not. The reporters are Extremely Online. Biden couldn’t tell you what TikTok is.

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