2020 Elections: Elizabeth Warren Denies Fox News Town Hall

Elizabeth Warren on Tuesday refused an invitation from Fox News to a televised public meeting and described the cable network as "a for-profit hate racket that offers a megaphone to racists and conspirators."

The network has invited Democratic presidential candidates to attend public meetings moderated by its reporters. Bernie Sanders and Amy Klobuchar have already participated in the events, while Pete Buttigieg and Kirsten Gillibrand have to do so. All criticized the network coverage by the Trump administration, but defended to register on the network to reach voters.

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Not to mention rivals, Warren argued that agreeing to go on the network would implicitly help Fox News.

"A Fox News town hall is adding money to the profit-making hate machine. For what I say: pass hard, "she wrote in a Twitter feed. "Fox News is invited to attend my events as any other outlet."

Anticipating criticism that she dodged tough questions, Warren noted that since January, she has held public meetings in 17 states, that she had 57 "availabilities" of media outlets with reporters and conducted 131 interviews. After his public meetings and events, Warren often answers questions from reporters for a few minutes. His team said they have taken into account more than 1,100 questions to the media since January.

Warren also attended two CNN public meetings earlier this year.

"I will not be asking millions of primary Democratic voters to connect to a media that is taking advantage of racism and hatred to see our candidates – especially when Fox will earn even more money by adding our audience. valuable to their side of the hearing, "she wrote.

Fox News has long been despised by much of the left, who sees it as a partisan propaganda machine. This sentiment has only intensified since the victory of President Donald Trump: he often promotes the network, hires officials and uses some of his hosts, including Sean Hannity, as informal advisors.

This is the last case where Warren is positioned to the left of his rivals and pushes them to defend either a more moderate position or to follow. Over the past few months, she has left to the left of all or most of her rivals to indict Trump, erase student debt, dismantle big tech companies like Facebook and Amazon, and remove the filibuster from the Senate.