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No Labels, an organization advocating for a third-party candidate, announced that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) will be joining its New Hampshire town hall as speculation grows over whether the senator will make a third-party bid for the White House. Amid polling showing a potential rematch between President Biden and former President Trump, No Labels has been pushing to create a separate “unity ticket” as a third option for voters in 2024.

MSNBC President Rashida Jones indicated on Monday that she’d be open to having former President Trump, who is running for the White House in 2024, on the network for a town hall event with “parameters” in place to “control the environment.” “If Trump came to you specifically and says, ‘I want to be on your air to do it,’ would you say yes?” Axios reporter Sara Fischer asked Jones, alluding to a potential on-air town hall with the former president. “Would I say yes? It would be a conversation. I think you’d have to put parameters about how to control...

The Republican National Committee says it remains committed to fighting against new laws to expand mass pre-election voting but, in some states, ballot harvesting is already the law — and Democrats are using it to run up voting leads in too many critical elections. So, under the leadership of Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, the RNC is looking to beat Democrats at their own game in states where ballot harvesting is legal while pushing for more Republicans to vote early by mail or in-person. Building off of the RNC's 2022 election integrity operations, McDaniel wrote that the GOP will continue "leveraging tens...

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Former President Donald Trump’s second televised town hall of the 2024 presidential campaign season took place yesterday, broadcast in prime time for an hour on the FOX News channel. The venue was a large facility in Clive, Iowa, with an enthusiastic crowd of Trump supporters who applauded and cheered throughout the event.As he began the broadcast, host Sean Hannity said (according to a transcript provided by FOX News):SEAN HANNITY: By the way, unlike fake news CNN, it's not my job to sit here and debate the candidate. We're going to ask him about the issues of the day that actually...

In the second broadcast town hall since he declared his candidacy last November, former President Donald Trump will be on FOX News for an hour tonight (June 1). The broadcast, taped before a live audience earlier in the day in Clive, Iowa, will comprise the Hannity program’s full hour from 9-10 PM ET, with a replay at 11 PM PT. Three weeks ago, in his first town hall appearance of the campaign, Trump chose CNN as the platform. The reviews of that 70-minute show were decidedly mixed, with both the rest of the MSM and fans of Trump dumping on...

Writer E. Jean Carroll’s lawyer says former President Trump’s comments bashing Carroll during his recent CNN town hall are “definitely actionable” after a jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse against her. “So it’s definitely actionable. And here the cruelty will make him less wealthy. He is not going to get away with it another time,” attorney Roberta Kaplan said on MSNBC’s “The Interview,” appearing alongside Carroll. “It’s unprecedented for a person to have been held liable in defamation to keep doing the defamation, so there are not a lot of cases that we can look to for a playbook...

The far-left New Republic is openly calling for a ban on media town halls after former President Donald Trump’s CNN triumph last week.Here is what these elite smugs think of the common man. You are going to think I made the below up. I did not…“The problem with overly lionizing the voice of the common voter is that average citizens often ask questions in open-ended fashion like, ‘What are your views on education?’”Hahahahaha… Yeah, who wants to know stuff like that?The New Republic pretends not to understand why people representative of everyday voters are the best to question candidates. The...

Democratic strategist Donna Brazile said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that President Donald Trump’s CNN town hall was “disgusting.” Brazile said, “Look, it was entertaining, it was disgusting, at the same time because this is a guy who continues to repeat the same lie after lie somehow believing it’s going to become true that the election was rigged. It was even more devastating to hear he might consider pardoning the people who attacked our democracy, the Proud Boys.”

Former President Donald Trump applauded the “sky high ratings” his town hall delivered for CNN, taking to social media Thursday night to proclaim “many minds were changed.” He used his own Truth Social network to outline his pleasure at the result and the three million-plus viewers who tuned in. “People are criticizing CNN for giving me a Forum to tell the TRUTH. I believe it was a very smart thing that they did, with Sky High Ratings that they haven’t seen in a very long time,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social. “It was by far the biggest...

CNN CEO Chris Licht must be thinking of Donald Trump, “I wish I knew how to quit you.” Licht has been trying and failing to turn around the troubled, little-watched news network, but so far has had little success as ratings continue to dwell in the cellar.Enter Former President Donald Trump, and BOOM—the ratings go through the roof and CNN beats rivals Fox News and MSNBC for the first time in seemingly ever. The numbers were yuge:Donald Trump’s town hall boosted CNN’s ratings to their highest in years, bringing in 3.3 million viewers in his 8pm slot last night. The...

The New York democratic-socialist congresscritter known as AOC fumed on Twitter Wednesday night that CNN “set up a sexual assault victim to be targeted and attacked” by inviting Donald Trump to appear on a special town hall segment that evening. “People were sounding the alarm about this exact scenario,” she continued. “They let it happen anyway without a plan.” “This, the choice to platform election disinformation, lies about January 6th, totally unchecked and reckless claims about abortion… they need to take ownership of what just happened.” AOC said that CNN allowing Trump on the air “cannot be normalized. It’s dangerous.”...

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VIDEOIt was most definitely the WORST day of CNN's Kaitlan Collins life. I guess she wasn't satisfied with just being the MODERATOR of the President Trump town hall in New Hampshire. Instead she (and her CNN puppetmasters) decided to turn her into a vicious debate OPPONENT of Trump. Wrong move. In this video you can see highlights the Collins disaster for yourselves. Her annoying interjections were so frequent and mindless it reminded me of Robby the Robot overloading because she couldn't handle the information presented by Trump. So horrible was Collins' pathetic performance that even her fellow liberals judged it...

The reaction on CNN after Trump’s Town Hall Triumph last night was just priceless. They were shell-shocked, you could tell, at how well Trump did. GOP Rep. Byron Donalds was on their panel as a GOP voice – and what a job he did! He hammered them for their bias, and dealt with one attack after another. He is a very impressive person, someone Trump should consider as a Vice-Presidential running mate. . . .

resident Joe Biden used former President Donald Trump's town hall interview with CNN as an avenue to tout his 2024 reelection campaign. Trump on Wednesday night appeared on CNN for the first time since 2016, as he was interviewed by CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins and responded to questions from crowd members about his third presidential campaign. Much of the interview centered around topics such as Trump's continued 2020 election loss denial, the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, the E. Jean Carroll trial and the discovery of classified documents at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida. Trump had previously expressed...

Former President Donald Trump previewed his Wednesday night town hall event with CNN by contending the network is “rightfully desperate” to get ratings up again. “I’ll be doing CNN tomorrow night, LIVE from the Great State of New Hampshire, because they are rightfully desperate to get those fantastic (TRUMP!) ratings once again,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Tuesday, previewing the event. The former president said CNN “made me a deal I couldn’t refuse” and pondered if this could mark the beginning of a “New & Vibrant CNN.”

Surprise, surprise! Former President Donald Trump, acknowledging an offer he couldn’t refuse, is scheduled to appear in a live town hall event on CNN tonight (Wednesday May 10) starting at 8 PM ET with a replay four hours later. CNN’s online schedule has it running for 75 minutes. This will mark the first time POTUS 45 has been interviewed on the channel since before he was elected president in 2016.The ensuing years, both during and after his presidency, witnessed President Trump frequently identify CNN as the leading example of the term he introduced to describe much of the mainstream media:...

A civil jury in New York City has found President Donald Trump not guilty of raping E. Jean Carroll in a department store dressing room nearly three decades ago. The jury found Trump liable for forcibly touching, sexually abusing and battery of Carroll. They also found he defamed her. Trump will be ordered to pay Carroll $5 million in damages. President Trump denied all of the charges and accusations. Further, he maintains he never knew or met Carroll. "It's the most ridiculous, disgusting story. It's just made up," Trump said during his deposition in the case. Trump's legal team has...

President Joe Biden has a very high opinion about himself. He not only thinks he has brought the U.S. back to health despite an ongoing border crisis, a weak economy, and instilling a progressive-fueled agenda, among other things. He also believes he is one of the most qualified presidential candidates in U.S. history. During an interview on MSNBC, Biden was asked, “Why an 82-year-old Joe Biden be the right person for the most important job in the world?” In response, the president used his old age to make his limited days seem less alarming, adding that he is way more...