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Sen. Gillibrand, Polling at About One Percent, Rips into Fox News and President Donald Trump
When asked by a retired pediatric nurse named Susan about her stance on late-term abortions, Gillibrand pivoted to an attack on Fox News. Gillibrand accused Fox of fueling what she called the infanticide "red herring" by devoting 6.5 hours of coverage to the debate, including comments from guests on the network. "What we have created, unfortunately, is a false choice and a false narrative," Gillibrand said of the climate surrounding the issue. "And Chris, I want to talk about the role that Fox News plays in this because it’s a problem. I can tell you before President Trump gave his State of the Union, Fox News talked about infanticide." "Infanticide doesn’t exist," she said ‐ at which point "Fox News Sunday" host and town hall moderator Chris Wallace cut her off. "Senator, I just want to say, we’ve brought you here for an hour," Wallace said. "We’ve treated you very fairly. I understand that maybe to make your credentials with the Democrats who are not appearing on Fox News, you want to attack us. I’m not sure it’s frankly very polite when we’ve invited you to be here." Gillibrand, who is polling at around one percent, according to most national and early voting state polls, has yet to secure the 65,000 individual donor campaign contributions necessary to qualify her for the late June and July primary debates and hoped to use her platform on Fox to bolster support. "I’ll do it in a polite way," Gillibrand countered. Posted by: Besoeker 2019-06-03 |
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