Global Courant 2023-05-14 23:33:34
CNN’s coverage of Donald Trump’s City Hall was the hot topic on Sunday political talk shows, including on ABC’s “This Week,” where the former governor of New Jersey Chris Christie said the audience of Trump supporters was very similar to the audience he saw when he ran for president in 2016.
“I don’t care how they introduced them. I know a lot of those people in that audience. I spent a lot of time in New Hampshire eight years ago, and a lot of it is the same faces I saw eight years ago,” said Christie, now a Republican commentator.
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Before the widely condemned town hall featuring the former president went on air on Wednesday, CNN said the audience for the Manchester event would include Republicans and right-wing independent voters. But Christie believes the network “went in the tank” to get Trump on their network for ratings and “allowed him to negotiate who would be in that audience.”
“You don’t pay attention to the audience’s reaction. Those were all people who were about 80% Trump supporters. So that was a bargaining deal that Trump made with CNN and I think CNN was wrong to do it,” he said.
Trump’s town hall attracted 3.3 million viewers, making struggling CNN the most-watched news network Wednesday night. While City Hall may not have attracted viewers outside of Trump’s base, as that total of 3.3 million is only slightly more than the 3.2 million average Tucker Carlson drew during his last Fox News broadcast on April 17 for he was abruptly released through the network.
Check out Christie’s comments in the video above.
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