{"id":1923147,"date":"2023-05-03T01:27:42","date_gmt":"2023-05-03T05:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-to-host-trump-2024-town-hall\/"},"modified":"2023-05-03T01:31:05","modified_gmt":"2023-05-03T05:31:05","slug":"cnn-to-host-trump-2024-town-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-to-host-trump-2024-town-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN to hold Trump 2024 town hall."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcnn-to-host-trump-2024-town-hall%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1923147&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>CNN to Host Town Hall with Former President Donald Trump<\/h2>\n<p><span>CNN announced on Monday that it will be hosting a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/joe-biden-knows-he-messed-up-on-fracking-at-debate-and-is-now-doing-damage-control-the-daily-wire\/\" title=\"Joe Biden Knows He Messed Up On Fracking At Debate And Is Now Doing Damage Control | The Daily Wire\">town hall<\/a> with former President Donald Trump next week. The event will take place at St. Anselm College in New Hampshire on May 10, where Trump will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rush-limbaugh-wife-planning-virtual-memorial-service\/\" title=\"Rush Limbaugh Wife Planning Virtual Memorial Service\">field questions<\/a> from Republicans and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-swing-state-poll-does-not-bode-well-for-joe-biden\/\" title=\"New Swing State Poll Does Not Bode Well For Joe Biden\">undeclared voters<\/a>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to Trump&#8217;s team, &#8220;CNN executives made a compelling pitch&#8221; for the event, which they believe can &#8220;jumpstart&#8221; the relationship that Trump used to have with the network. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>This move by CNN may be an attempt to attract conservative viewers as CEO Chris Licht overhauls the channel. The network has seen a 61 percent drop in ratings during primetime in March and hit a 10-year low in viewership in February. <\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Trump&#8217;s Desire for Mainstream Coverage<\/h3>\n<p><span>An adviser for Trump told Semafor that the event shows the former president&#8217;s desire for mainstream coverage that may help attract new supporters. &#8220;Going outside the traditional Republican &#8216;comfort zone&#8217; was a key to President Trump&#8217;s success in 2016,&#8221; the adviser said. &#8220;Some other candidates are too afraid to take this step in their quest to defeat Joe Biden, and are afraid to do anything other than Fox News.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>CNN pointed to its &#8220;longstanding tradition of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/cnn-to-host-trump-2024-town-hall\/\" title=\"CNN to hold Trump 2024 town hall.\">hosting leading presidential candidates<\/a> for Town Halls.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Interestingly, this announcement comes four years after the network\u2019s former president Jeff Zucker admitted that CNN &#8220;made a mistake&#8221; in 2016 by giving Trump so much press. &#8220;We shouldn\u2019t have put on as many [Trump] rallies as we did,&#8221; Zucker said weeks before Trump\u2019s election.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN announced Monday it will host a town hall with former president Donald Trump next week, as the network faces plummeting ratings.\u00a0 Trump will field questions from Republicans and undeclared voters in New Hampshire at St. Anselm College on May 10. The former president\u2019s team said &#8220;CNN executives made a compelling pitch&#8221; and that the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1613,"featured_media":1923148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[4506,9373,9165,4920,9167,3634],"class_list":["post-1923147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-4506","tag-cnn","tag-hall","tag-hold","tag-town","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1613"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1923147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1923147\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1923148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1923147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1923147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1923147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}