Jonathan Bernstein, Columnist

The Missing Questions Showed That Biden Is Winning

Nobody asked about the virus or the economy at the president’s first press conference.

March 25, 2021 at 8:14 PM UTC

Jonathan Bernstein is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering politics. A former professor of political science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, he wrote A Plain Blog About Politics.

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The big news from President Joe Biden’s first press conference was about dogs that didn’t bark: the kind of news that’s important because of its absence.

Not a single question about the pandemic.