Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) has turned down the offer to participate in a town hall on Fox News, saying she’d take a “hard pass” of the “hate-for-profit racket.”
I love town halls. I’ve done more than 70 since January, and I’m glad to have a television audience be a part of them. Fox News has invited me to do a town hall, but I’m turning them down—here’s why…
— Elizabeth Warren (@ewarren) May 14, 2019
So far, her fellow 2020 candidates Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) have attended Fox News town halls, while South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) are scheduled to in the future.
Interesting. I would have thought she would have taken the opportunity to make her case to a conservative crowd, rather than dismiss the entire network ( and all it’s viewers) as “haters”. Ah well.
This may not be the best thing for her campaign since there could be Warren voters lurking in Fox’s audience (emphasis on could be), but good lord this woman speaks the truth. In a better world she would be for sure leading the pack.
“Hate-for-Profit Racket…” I’ve not seen a better summation of what Fox is ever. It’s brilliant.
She’s not wrong.
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