Ben Shapiro
@benshapiro
CNN did Trump a MASSIVE favor last night and everybody knows it. Here's why.
This townhall was billed as a Republican primary townhall, which means that presumably, Trump should have been asked about issues Republican voters care about. Like, say, Fauci and covid; criminal justice reform and Alice Johnson and crime; the border wall and illegal immigration. Etc.
Now let me present a partial list of the issues Republican voters DON'T care about:
E. Jean Carroll
January 6
Georgia election questions
National Archives documents
Alvin Bragg's allegations
These are all Democrats' top issues.
Collins asked zero of the questions Republicans cared about and all the ones Democrats cared about.
So, in other words, this was billed as a GOP primary night, and it was just Kaitlin Collins asking questions Democrats have about Trump.
Republican voters sensed this. So when Trump took out the kitchen sink and began hammering Collins into the wall with it, they cheered. Republicans will -- ALWAYS AND CORRECTLY -- cheer biased moderators being steamrolled by Republican candidates, no matter what those candidates actually say.
Trump wins more favor with Republican voters; Democrats remain offput; independents continue to wonder why we're relitigating 2020. Ridiculous failure by CNN on all fronts -- unless, of course, their goal is to renominate Trump for the ratings and because they think he's most beatable (NOTE: this, by the way, is precisely their goal).
8:38 AM · May 11, 2023
