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President Joe Biden will do a town hall event on CNN next week in Cincinnati, as he passed the six month mark in office. Don Lemon will moderate the one-hour event on July 21, which starts at 8 PM ET. This will be Biden’s second CNN town hall since taking office, having done one in February that was moderated by…

Donald Trump will do a town hall next week with what is likely to be a friendlier forum than he faced with NBC News and Savannah Guthrie. Sinclair Broadcast Group announced that the president would participate in an event on Oct. 21, to be moderated by Eric Bolling, the conservative political commentator and host of Am…

The focus of Election Night will be on the swing states, the key battlegrounds that will decide who will be the next president. But other states, like Alabama and Massachusetts, will be red vs. blue polar opposites, so different in their thinking about Donald Trump and Joe Biden that it’ll make many wonder, how are we…

As reactions pour in to tonight’s dueling Town Hall debates, most opinions seemed firmly fixed on one side of the aisle or another. While that’s not unexpected, it does point out that few minds were changed by the television shows, which increasingly fail to resemble showcases of well-reasoned critical thinking, and…

As puzzling as it was that NBC News scheduled its town hall with Donald Trump against ABC News and Joe Biden, credit is due to moderator Savannah Guthrie for turning it into much more of an hourlong interview than a series of softballs from everyday folk. Throughout the hour, she peppered the president with questions…

Donald Trump may have been twirling like a rabid squirrel over on NBC, but on the unique night in America's challenged democracy, Joe Biden's town hall on ABC was a display of a candidate in control of himself, the facts, the Constitution, and plans for the future. As George Stephanopoulos wrapped up the night, he…

Donald Trump’s town hall with NBC News — competing against a similar event with Joe Biden on ABC News — opened with a contentious series of questions with moderator Savannah Guthrie. At times, Trump sounded angry and irate as Guthrie grilled him over the details of his testing results, his failure to immediately…

President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger Joe Biden will face off (sort of) tonight in dueling town halls live in primetime, simultaneously on broadcast networks NBC and ABC, respectively. Both events were scheduled on the night of the town hall-style second presidential debate, which was canceled after Trum…

UPDATED with company statement. Twitter has started to come back online for many users just prior to tonight’s presidential town halls. “Twitter has been down for many of you and we're working to get it back up and running for everyone,” the company said in a tweet two hours into the outage. “We had some trouble with…

UPDATED, 1:59 PM PT: Hours before he is set to take the stage at an NBC News town hall, Donald Trump again attacked the network, calling it “fake news,” in what was either an effort to work the refs or goose the ratings for the event. “I will be doing a major Fake @NBCNews Town Hall Forum, live tonight from Miami, at…

NBC News indicated that it is not backing off plans for a town hall with Donald Trump scheduled at the same time that ABC News is doing a similar event with Joe Biden. The scheduling has drawn criticism, including from more than 100 producers, directors and writers who signed their names to a letter urging NBC to move…

NBC News is taking heat for its decision to schedule a town hall on Thursday evening with President Donald Trump that will compete head-to-head with ABC News’ event with Joe Biden. On Thursday, more than 100 actors, writers, directors and producers sent a letter to top Comcast and NBC officials asking them to shift…