On the June 25 edition of Bill Hemmer Reports, Fox News chief political anchor Bret Baier said that “Democrats are warming to [Joe] Biden just staying in the basement.” This line referenced a common Fox refrain that Biden has been hiding from the public throughout the campaign season, which was repeatedly mentioned earlier in the segment as a “bunker strategy.”
Only minutes before Baier said this, however, Biden delivered a speech in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in which he leveled attacks at President Donald Trump’s mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic and health care policy during the crisis.
Fox News ignored Biden’s speech and continued with its normally scheduled broadcasting. MSNBC was the only major news network that covered Biden’s speech live.