Posted on 05/10/2023 10:46:13 AM PDT by conservative98
No questions will be off-limits on Wednesday night at the CNN town hall with Donald J. Trump. He can put 15 people of his choice in the audience but none are allowed to ask questions. And his team has not had a hand in guiding how the event will go, according to two people briefed on the discussions.
All of this adds up to no small amount of risk for the former president during the prime-time event, his advisers say — a risk they see as worth taking.
They expect tough questions from the CNN anchor and moderator, Kaitlan Collins — and have been anticipating questions about abortion, investigations into Mr. Trump and a civil jury’s finding him liable for defamation and sexual abuse in the lawsuit brought by E. Jean Carroll in Manhattan, a verdict handed down a day before the town hall.
But they also know he will mostly be facing questions from an audience of Republicans and Republican-leaning independent voters in New Hampshire, the state hosting the first primary of the 2024 Republican presidential contest. It was the first state Mr. Trump won in 2016 and a place where he still enjoys popularity among Republicans.
Since the end of his presidency, Mr. Trump has largely been relegated to appearing on right-wing networks and podcasts. He has taken reporters aboard his plane now that he’s a candidate, but his team recognizes that he needs to start venturing beyond the fringe to gain access to a broader audience, particularly as a contrast to Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, who avoids the mainstream media. And CNN was willing to provide him that opportunity, several advisers said. The town hall will be Mr. Trump’s first appearance on CNN since the 2016 campaign.
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Trump can think on his feet, he isn’t Biden who can’t even perform with a softball interviewer and an earpiece feeding him answers.
I am sure he will be attacked but he’s always attacked and always holds his own.
Will it be a game changer?
Well he’s way ahead in the primary polling so, I would be surprised if this shifts much.
His loyal supporters will watch Ana’s the TDS haters will watch. I don’t know how many others will tune in… will give CNN some big ratings for a Wed night, but I don’t think it will change the races dynamic much at this point. Too early for any but the most die hard political fanatics to be paying much attention.
There will never again be an outsider that disrupts the carefully laid plans of over 50 years of a one party oligarchy.
Every news media outlet is staffed with political loyalists from political and bureaucratic dynasties. Every head of every agency, their spouses, staffers, and relatives are in executive positions inside of every media news organization.
If Trump can stay within himself he will do fine. He just needs to be civil and go back to his signature issues of making America great again.
Don’t agree CNN viewers don’t even know Trump. They know of some guy who worked with Putin to get elected, hates blacks and Latinos lobes Stalin, wishes to be Kim Jung un and rapes women. Definitely they don’t know the Trump we know. They’ll be surprised that he didn’t show up in black face.
“Take it easy Chuck. Just play cool.”
I think he’s crazy to go into that den of hyenas. But that’s just me...
I don't disagree with you but for all the power and influence they are not very smart. Just like Disney, Bud Light and Fox they do not have any grasp of their audience and tend to blunder into walls of their own making.
They can be beat and will be.
CNN will win the time slot. Faux news sucks, btw.
Coincidental?
Likely not.
Is the Town Hall show on regular CNN?
I read somewhere one can see it at the cnn site with your phone.
I predict the reviews will be terrible. No matter how the interview goes.
Yes, it is.
I wish him luck. I read that he decided to say yes because Vivek Ramaswamy went to a CNN town hall in NH and it went well for him.
I hope his reasoning on this goes deeper then comparing Vivek’s treatment by CNN & what he will get!
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