Politico has a story up focused on a new Morning Consult poll indicating that criticism of Democratic Presidential hopefuls for participating in Fox News Town Halls is very much a minority, perhaps even a fringe, view.
As shown in the chart above, Democratic respondents who said such appearances were “Very inappropriate “ amounted to no more than 9% of the total. An additional 8% said that they were “Somewhat inappropriate”. Accordingly, the combined number of Democrats who take a negative view of such Town Halls amounts to no more than 17%.
Meanwhile Democrats who consider the Town Halls appropriate to one degree or another, clock in at a hefty 64%.
As the Politico article puts it:
The results could reassure 2020 Democratic hopefuls who want to use Fox News appearances to reach out to conservative-leaning voters — particularly after South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg received days of media attention and stirred up tension at the network with his on-air critique of Fox’s opinion hosts during Sunday’s town hall.
“Democratic presidential hopefuls who hold Fox News town halls can expect their primary voters to approve of the forums on the hot-button network,” said Morning Consult vice president Tyler Sinclair. “Notably, 64 percent of Democrats and 63 percent of self-identified liberals say it’s appropriate for 2020 candidates to appear on Fox News town hall programs, compared with 17 percent of Democrats and 18 percent of liberals who say it’s inappropriate.”
Such speculation aside, what can be said with a fair degree of certainty, assuming the poll’s accuracy, is that those who are pushing criticism of the Town Halls are out of step, not only with the general sentiment among Democrats, but with the sentiments of the electorate as a whole.
Read the whole article and judge for yourself.
Wednesday, May 22, 2019 · 9:03:03 PM +00:00
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WB Reeves
Interesting tidbit from the Politico article regarding Trump’s reaction to Democrats doing Town Halls on Fox News.
The events have also caused some strain with President Donald Trump, who told supporters at a rally in Montoursville, Pennsylvania, Monday that “something strange is going on at Fox. Something very strange.” Trump described Buttigieg as “knocking the hell out of Fox” on air.
He doesn’t sound happy.