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Managing Editor @NewsBusters, Proud grad of @Penn_State & @ManheimTownship via Lancaster, PA. Caps, Nats, NASCAR, Bengals, mental health, ✝️. Views = mine

Sep 18, 2020, 6 tweets

There have been six questioners so far at the first commercial break of CNN's #BidenTownHall. Five of the six are Democrats, and five of the six are from the left.

Anderson Cooper has interjected eight times.

Second segment had three more audience questions, all by Democrats with two of three being either neutral or from the left.

Third segment -- two audience questions, both from Democrats. One was neutral or from the right, while the other was from the left.

And in the fourth (and final segment), there were five audience questions with three from Democrats (and two Republicans). My first glance of the transcript would put three on the left, one neutral, and two from the right.

All told, in terms of audience members for CNN's #BidenTownHall (and not counting the slant the questions), there were 16 total and 13 were Democrats versus only three Republicans.

Tuesday on ABC, there were 12 audience questioners. ABC defined them by the person they voted for in '16 (whereas CNN was either a "Democrat" or Trump voter in '16). On ABC, there were four who voted Trump in '16, three for Hillary, one Stein, three didn't vote, and one undefined

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