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General Category => Elections 2020 => Topic started by: PeteS in CA on September 22, 2020, 06:58:40 pm
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ABC Town Hall Masquerades Anti-Trump Activists as ‘Uncommitted’ Voters
https://freebeacon.com/2020-election/abc-town-hall-masquerades-anti-trump-activists-as-uncommitted-voters/ (https://freebeacon.com/2020-election/abc-town-hall-masquerades-anti-trump-activists-as-uncommitted-voters/)
Multiple voters characterized by ABC News as undecided—and selected to pepper President Donald Trump with questions during a network town hall—are longtime Trump critics. While the network claimed its Tuesday town hall "provided uncommitted voters the opportunity to ask the president questions about issues affecting Americans," a Washington Free Beacon review of social media posts found that two of the questioners have long denounced Trump.
Kutztown University professor Ellesia Blaque—whom ABC repeatedly identified as "uncommitted" in its coverage of the town hall—praised vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris during the Democratic primary, saying she would "be there, volunteering" for the California senator in Pennsylvania. The English professor was not shy about her partisanship, calling Trump a "f—ing moron," "pathetic," "pig," "swine," "punk ass," and "LOOSER" (sic) in a slew of 2019 tweets. She is a self-described "liberal Democrat," according to her Facebook profile, on the grounds that liberals "are not motivated by money or power, but by humanity and the needs of the people."
So, how many other "undecided" voters at ABC's "townhall" were in fact partisan plants?