{"id":1942593,"date":"2023-06-02T09:44:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T13:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-takeaways-from-trumps-iowa-town-hall\/"},"modified":"2023-06-02T09:46:47","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T13:46:47","slug":"5-takeaways-from-trumps-iowa-town-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-takeaways-from-trumps-iowa-town-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Key Points from Trump&#8217;s Iowa 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\">16<\/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%2F5-takeaways-from-trumps-iowa-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=1942593&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>Trump Fans Cheer His Toughness and Policies at Fox News Town Hall<\/h2>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div class=\"aplayer_app\" data-source=\"https:\/\/vs1.youmaker.com\/assets\/2023\/0602\/f1938ae0-760d-40da-97d3-9241fdd89be0\/audio.mp3?length=5302125&#038;duration=442\"><\/div>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump\u2019s fans in a Fox News audience made it clear: They like his toughness\u2014and they miss the ways his policies benefited America and the world during his presidency.<\/p>\n<p>The June 1 town hall-style forum in Clive, Iowa, began and ended with cheers and standing ovations from the crowd, which applauded and whistled when host Sean Hannity said he assumed that almost everyone there would be voting for Trump to become the Republican party\u2019s nominee for president.<\/p>\n<p>Hannity told Trump that he often hears people ask why Trump has to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/arrogant-selfish-reckless-geraldo-rivera-says-he-thinks-less-of-unvaccinated-people\/\" title=\"\u2018Arrogant, Selfish, Reckless\u2019: Geraldo Rivera Says He Thinks Less Of Unvaccinated People\">call people names<\/a> and behave so brashly. They wonder why he doesn\u2019t \u201ctone it down\u201d, Hannity said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump responded: \u201cI won an election. It was unprecedented \u2026 and from the day I got in [office], I was under siege \u2026 If I wasn&#8217;t tough, I wouldn&#8217;t be here right now.\u201d That answer drew one of the most sustained cheers of the hourlong event.<\/p>\n<p>Hannity said the \u201cmassive, incredible, enthusiastic\u201d audience came out in \u201crain, thunder and lightning\u201d for the chance to hear Trump speak in person and possibly ask him a question. During the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/daily-wire-launches-programming-to-compete-with-disney\/\" title=\"Daily Wire Launches Programming to Compete With Disney\">live town hall<\/a>, only two audience members were able to ask questions. But Hannity said another segment with more audience questions would be videotaped for later broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s appearance in a friendlier atmosphere at the more conservative Fox network contrasted sharply with the town hall that left-leaning CNN hosted three weeks ago. Although the CNN audience was filled with Republican voters who seemed mostly Trump-friendly\u2014drawing criticism from CNN\u2019s liberal audience\u2014CNN moderator Kaitlan Collins frequently interrupted Trump and got into contentious exchanges with him.<\/p>\n<p>Hannity said: \u201cUnlike \u2018fake news\u2019 CNN, it\u2019s not my job to sit here and debate the candidate. We\u2019re going to ask him about the issues of the day that actually matter to the people.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Here are five takeaways from Hannity\u2019s interview and the two audience questions:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Veteran Misses Trump<\/strong>: The first question from the audience came from a man named Mike who was wearing a Trump T-shirt with the words, \u201cDo you miss me?\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Energy Prices, Inflation, Taxes Too High<\/strong>: Another audience member asked Trump what he would do to fix the economy; Trump said, \u201cInflation is a killer of countries \u2026 it\u2019s a cancer to a country.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><strong>Better Than Biden, Others<\/strong>: Trump said it doesn\u2019t really bother him that the Republican field of candidates for the presidency is growing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5308027\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/06\/02\/id5308027-GettyImages-1495210764-1200x800.jpg\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/06\/02\/id5308027-GettyImages-1495210764-1200x800.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump greets supporters at a Team Trump volunteer leadership training event held at the Grimes Community Complex in Grimes, Iowa on June 1, 2023.\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a><br \/>\n\t<\/figure>\n<p>But he also said he couldn\u2019t figure out why some of the candidates are entering the race or continuing when they have little or no chance of winning. Polls show some of the other candidates pulling only 1 percent of the vote, Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe one who\u2019s second\u201d in the polls, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, stated that it would take two terms\u2014eight years\u2014to clean up the mess our nation now faces. But Trump, who has already served four years, could only serve one more term. Trump responded that he only needed six months to get the economy \u201chopping.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf he needs eight years, don\u2019t vote for him,\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump only took a few swipes at Democrat President Joe Biden, even though Hannity pointed out the president\u2019s embarrassing fall at an Air Force Academy graduation in Colorado earlier in the day.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Trump revealed that he had previously counseled Hannity that he shouldn\u2019t make light of Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/5-takeaways-from-trumps-town-hall-with-appreciative-iowa-audience\/\" title=\"5 Takeaways From Trump\u2019s Town Hall With Appreciative Iowa Audience\">apparent deteriorating physical condition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump and Hannity both said polls are showing that Trump has the best chance of winning the presidency in 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fox News audience in Clive, Iowa cheered and applauded former President Donald Trump&#8217;s toughness and policies that benefited America and the world during his presidency. Fans expressed their admiration and missed his leadership during a town hall-style forum on June 1, with standing ovations and cheers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1196,"featured_media":1942594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[543],"tags":[9165,5626,7233,9167,3794],"class_list":["post-1942593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-hall","tag-iowa","tag-key","tag-town","tag-trumps"],"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\/1942593","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\/1196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1942593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1942594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1942593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1942593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1942593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}