Article snippet: Symone Sanders, the campaign’s spokeswoman, appeared on CNN Monday to discuss the numerous verbal missteps that have plagued Biden over the past week. In particular, Sanders was asked if voters cared about the gaffes or if Biden’s standing would be diminished by them— as polling seems to suggest. Sanders responded by accusing the media of playing up the gaffes to further their own “narrative” at the expense of voters. “This is a press narrative, not a voter narrative,” Sanders said. “If you were to look at the coverage in Iowa this weekend and juxtapose the local newspapers and local television coverage to national media coverage you would have thought these reporters were at two different events.” She proceeded to argue the media should “elevate the conversation” surrounding the election and refrain from prioritizing things that do “not matter.” “We cannot allow this election to devolve in a tit for tat over name-calling and ‘gaffes,’ something that does not matter,” Sanders said. “This is not something that’s registering with the American people.” Other top Biden aides made a similar argument on Monday, in what appeared to be a coordinated attack on the national press. Kate Bedingfield, the former vice president’s deputy campaign manager, asserted on social media that the press should “cover the substance of what the candidates are saying” instead of “applying Donald Trump’s frame” to the race. Bedingfield continued her attack on the media Tuesday, claiming the... Link to the full article to read more