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Elizabeth Warren refuses Fox News town hall appearance, bucking trend of 2020 rivals - The Boston Globe

posted onMay 18, 2019
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Article snippet: WASHINGTON — Senator Elizabeth Warren announced Tuesday that she is refusing an invitation to appear on President Trump’s favorite TV channel, bucking the trend of Democratic 2020 hopefuls appearing on Fox News town halls to broaden their voter outreach. “Fox News is a hate-for-profit racket that gives a megaphone to racists and conspiracists,” Warren said in a series of tweets Tuesday. “It’s designed to turn us against each other, risking life & death consequences, to provide cover for the corruption that’s rotting our government and hollowing out our middle class.” The decision sets Warren firmly on the anti-Fox News side of an emerging debate within the Democratic Party about the nation’s top-rated cable news network. And it once again has the Massachusetts senator breaking ground in the sprawling primary field with an attention-getting move — as she did with her call to start impeachment proceedings against Trump last month — while positioning her to the left of her chief liberal rival in the race, Senator Bernie Sanders, on engaging with Fox News. Sanders did a Fox town hall last month. But Warren said Tuesday that Democrats appearing at those made-for-TV question-and-answer events give the network more ad revenue and harm advertising boycott efforts, as she became the first top-tier candidate to publicly turn down an invite. “I won’t ask millions of Democratic primary voters to tune into an outlet that profits from racism and hate in order to see our c... Link to the full article to read more

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