Trump Does CNN, Shreds Liberalism In Their Living Rooms
Kaitlan Collins gets MAGA Baptized on Live TV
CNN town hall shows the network still doesn’t know how to handle Donald Trump
Playbook: How Trump dominated CNN
CNN Trump Town Hall Proves That Donald Trump Is Still the One to Beat for 2024
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CNN hosted Trump’s first town hall since he declared for 2024, and it is pretty well established that the train had already left and it was full steam ahead. As RedState reported, Trump set the tone and showed host Kaitlan Collins who was driving the conversation. It definitely was not her. White House correspondent Simon Ateba was underwhelmed.
Of course, Collins began with the 2020 election and January 6. Trump immediately batted down Collins’ contentions about his influence over the January 6 kerfuffle and the violence that ensued, then raised hackles when he called Capitol Police officer Michael Byrd, who shot veteran Ashli Babbitt, a “thug.”
The audience, made up of Republican and Independent voters, absolutely loved Trump—much to the chagrin of Collins. Trump received a standing ovation at his introduction, and his appeal only increased from there.
When Trump related (in semi-mocking fashion) E. Jean Carroll’s rape allegations against him, the crowd was animated and laughing at Trump’s funny delivery. If CNN was hoping Collins’ line of questioning would make Trump come off as unlikeable or misogynist, then they failed miserably. If there were any skeptics in that crowd, Trump had won them over at the end.
A most telling portion of the night was the focus group post-Town Hall. The CNN correspondent running the group attempted to push his own narrative about Trump’s response to the questions about the 2020 Election, not realizing he was not dealing with low-information voters who were born yesterday.
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Actually, I think it PROVES how much CNN is trying to be fair. They knowingly and intentionally BY THEIR OWN DOING surrounded Trump with an audience that would be very favorable toward Trump and would be against Collins. As your own article says, the audience was all Trump supporters or independents. That was not by accident. CNN balanced the equation because their own reporter was going to do her job and grill him, not softball him. (If this has been Biden being interviewed, you'd tear her to shreds if she softball HIM!)
CNN could have stacked the deck easily with an audience that would have loved them and Collins or, at least, with an audience that would be balanced. They chose not to, regardless of how that positioned them. They chose an audience biased strongly in Trump's favor -- for the most part, his own rally crowd. (Had they been in blue territory and chosen a blue audience, you wouldn't have been able to say any of what you said above because they would have all applauded Collins and booed Trump, and he would have been standing on his left foot.) Standing before an audience that you know by tradition leans strongly away from you and toward the person you will be grilling is far from an easy thing to do. Collins had the guts to stand strong in audience that she KNEW would be against her and would be likely to applaud for Trump. That is a bold thing to do to yourself on national TV!
—David Haggith