The unpopular mainstream media, so aligned with Democrats they cheer President Biden’s re-election announcement at the cozy correspondents’ dinner, provides the perfect foil for Donald Trump.
Every time Trump opens his mouth, the media says he is lying.
And every time the media says the former president is lying, he goes up in the polls.
That’s why CNN can pile on Trump in its town hall Wednesday night as much as they want, and it will be a win for him. Anti-Trump plants in the audience can go for the jugular. The media will seize upon and amplify the single most negative moment.
Trump still wins. And that’s why he’s doing the CNN event at St. Anselm College in Goffstown, New Hampshire. It may seem puzzling at first why Trump would expose himself to one of his network arch-enemies – which is obsessed with taking him down – but it makes perfect sense.
And Joe Biden will do his part by coordinating yet another crisis — this one at the southern border – set to unfold just one day before the Trump town hall.
The media has even lower favorability ratings than Biden.
Nearly one-half of all adults in a new Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs poll and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights poll say they have no trust in the media to report news fairly and accurately.
And nearly three-fourths of American adults fault the news media for dividing the nation and increasing political polarization in the U.S.
Remember, this is a poll from the left-leaning AP and the Democrat-friendly RFK Human Rights Center – not Fox or some conservative organization.
This is why more and more Americans are turning away from the mainstream media, especially TV news, and getting news for themselves.
“I trust the Internet more than I do the TV,” one poll respondent said.
Trump before this week has tended to turn to friendly, conservative outlets like Newsmax to get exposure, but his decision to go before the CNN Democrat plants indicates a definite and much-needed change in strategy.
Since his indictment by a Manhattan grand jury, Trump’s poll numbers in states like New Hampshire have shot up. So he’s trying to capitalize on his momentum by doing the town hall at St. Anselm, moderated by CNN’s Kaitlin Collins.
New Hampshire is set to be Republicans’ first primary of the 2024 campaign, unlike Democrats who have discarded the state and relegated it to a lesser position in the schedule.
Trump will be gunning for a third straight primary victory in the Granite State, but he has lost the last two general election contests there. It’s one of the states Trump needs to flip if he’s to win back the White House.
Trump will be taking questions from CNN’s Collins as well as alleged “undeclared” New Hampshire voters who say they intend to vote in the primary. We’ll see just how undecided this town hall audience turns out to be.
