Two top advisers to former Vice President Joe Biden's presidential campaign contacted executives and top political anchors at ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, and Fox News on Sunday to alternately "ask" and "demand that in service to the facts, you no longer book Rudy Giuliani," who is "not a public official" and has "publicly said he is concerned his tombstone will say he 'lied for Donald Trump,'" his client, The New York Times reports. "But if you do," wrote Biden advisers Anita Dunn and Kate Bedingfield, "you need to give an equivalent amount of time to a surrogate for the Biden campaign."
Giuliani was on two of the Sunday talk shows. Producers at both of the shows also requested interviews with Biden, but "the Biden campaign declined the invitation and instead offered its national co-chairman, Representative Cedric Richmond of Louisiana, an option that the producers rejected," the Times says. "Weekend political talk shows typically reserve airtime for newsmakers themselves — a candidate or politician in person, for instance — rather than for lower-ranking supporters."
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