This sounds like a wolf in sheep’s clothing. I remember Trump’s so-called Townhall in 2020 which was held at the Lincoln Memorial. I believe that Brett Baier and Martha MacCallum were the hosts.
It was during Covid which gave Fox News the chance to collect many video clips and carefully choose the ones that were mostly negative for Trump. In an almost 2 hour show, IIRC there were two neutral questions, one Trump supporter question and all the rest were people giving speeches attacking Trump. He was given very little time to respond. Trump is great with people but did not do so well against such terrible odds.
Brett Baier and Martha MacCallum seemed to know which topics were coming next. They had their snide and/or combative comments ready on papers on their laps
Is there anyone at Fox who would give Trump a fair and balanced town hall? Hannity? Bartiromo? I think Bartiromo would be the fairest. Thoughts?
If he really had the power he’d make one of the 3 POTUS debates be on one subject alone and that is the subject of racism. Since the drive-by left/MSM enjoy immunity every time they throw a rock we should be entitled to a head to head rebuttal. Our enemies wouldn’t be able to hide. The whole country would be watching not just blacks. I’m getting tired of this crap and I’m not alone.
$hit-if Biden/Kamala are on the ticket again the VP debate should be Kamala/Trump. Everyone knows she’ll end up in the Oval Office if both get reelected.
There’s two sides to your observation. The principled side would be that we want journalists to hit candidates with hard questions, put them to the test, and see how they respond to angry constituents. The other side is how the Democrats do it - they do everything possible to prop their candidate up and make him/her look best, rigging their primaries and feeding the campaigns the questions in advance.
Trump was able to win in 2016 in part because a lot of people did not like Hillary, and also because he really clobbered her in the debates with zingers like “because you’d be in jail” and the comical “Putin, release the emails” which was obviously a joke, but the entire DC establishment took that and ran it as if Trump and Putin were colluding. Point is that Trump was able to pull off an upset because he did very well in a very tough environment in 2016.