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Democrats bar Fox News from televising debates after reported Trump ties
Democrats bar Fox News from moderating debates after reported Trump ties | Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Democratic National Committee on Wednesday said it will not allow Fox News to host any of its candidates’ political debates through 2020, citing a report this week about the conservative channel’s ties to U.S. President Donald Trump.
“Recent reporting in the New Yorker on the inappropriate relationship between President Trump, his administration and Fox News has led me to conclude that the network is not in a position to host a fair and neutral debate for our candidates,” DNC Chairman Tom Perez said in a statement provided to Reuters.
“Therefore, Fox News will not serve as a media partner for the 2020 Democratic primary debates,” Perez said in a statement, first reported earlier on Wednesday by the Washington Post.... Representatives for Fox said they hoped the DNC would reconsider and let some of its journalists moderate a Democratic presidential debate.
The DNC’s decision is a rerun of the 2016 primary election, when it turned down Fox’s multiple offers to host a debate, citing the network’s longstanding conservative bent and prominent criticism of Democratic policies. At that time a Democrat, Barack Obama, occupied the Oval Office.
Trump, a Republican seeking re-election in 2020, has stoked polarization between the two U.S. political parties by appealing to his base on Twitter and television and policy speeches while simultaneously publicly attacking and feuding with prominent Democrats.
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Surely, they’d prefer to use one of those strongly Democrat-tied networks, like CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, NBC, etc.
In that case there will not be many viewer ratings during those segments of Debate. It's all Kabuki theatre anyway. The Hypocritical Gall of the Progressive Marxist Socialist Democrats to say some news channel is tied to a particular politician or party when ALL others are so IN BED with dems they are probably pregnant!!