Super Bowl: All the President’s objectives

This Sunday’s Super Bowl LV could also be a battle of the quarterbacks — between the GOAT Tom Brady and future GOAT Patrick Mahomes — but it surely’s US President Joe Biden who’s hoping to attain essentially the most factors.
In a bid to make use of the most-watched sporting occasion within the US to achieve a nationwide viewers within the tens of tens of millions, Biden will seem on CBS in a pre-taped interview earlier than the competition between Tamba Bay Buccaneers and defending champions Kansas City Chiefs. Last yr’s Super Bowl was watched by an estimated 99.9 million Americans — a viewership the White House is attempting to achieve to advertise Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus stimulus package deal.
On the agenda
Snippets from the interview present Biden speak concerning the doable inclusion of a standalone $15 minimal wage proposal within the COVID-19 financial reduction plan and why there’s “no need” for predecessor Donald Trump to have the intelligence briefings.
“It’s an audience that is not just going to be the true believers,” Thomas Alan Schwartz, a presidential scholar at Vanderbilt University, instructed US News. “The Super Bowl is one of the secular national holidays we have that tends to promote unity, the idea being that we all like watching the game. It’s an opportunity to hit an audience that he would otherwise have a hard time finding.”
Dogs within the struggle
Biden additionally has the competitors lined. During Sunday’s Puppy Bowl XVII — the fuzzy various to Super Bowl which options rowdy puppies taking part in in a mannequin stadium — Biden’s German Shepherds Champ and Major will seem alongside first girl Jill Biden in a public service announcement targeted on sporting masks.
“Please keep wearing your masks, even when you’re out walking your dog, right guys?” Jill says within the message.
Presidential custom
While previous presidents known as victorious coaches to hitch within the revelry, it was George W Bush who began the custom of a Super Bowl interview.
“I think it’s going to be a very close contest, but what the heck do I know? I’m just the president,” Bush instructed CBS commentator Jim Nantz in 2004.
After his re-election, Democratic President Barack Obama was grilled by then-Fox News host Bill O’Reilly in 2013 concerning the rollout struggles of the web site for his Obamacare healthcare plan and the militant assault on the US compound in Benghazi, Libya.
In 2019, Donald Trump confessed he would have a ‘hard time’ letting son Barron play American soccer, alluding to the “dangerous sport’s” hyperlink to mind trauma, in an interview to CBS’ ‘Face the Nation’. He skipped the interview final yr.