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Fox News’ town hall with President Donald Trump at the Lincoln Memorial drew 3.8 million viewers, according to early numbers from Nielsen. The two-hour event on Sunday beat Sunday night programming on CNN and MSNBC combined. The town hall was co-anchored by Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum. They also hosted a town hall…

President Donald Trump will do a virtual town hall with Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum on Sunday. The two-hour event, America Together: Returning to Work, will take place at the Lincoln Memorial. Trump did a Fox News town hall last month at the White House, with Bill Hemmer and Harris Faulkner as moderators, and the…

President Donald Trump and members of his coronavirus task force will headline a two-hour “virtual” Fox News town hall on Tuesday afternoon. The event will be co-anchored by Harris Faulkner and Bill Hemmer, with contributions from Dr. Nicole Saphier, Dr. Marc Siegel and Dr. Mehmet Oz. Faulker anchors Outnumbered Overti…

Michael Bloomberg will participate in his first televised town hall since he entered the presidential race, as one of six candidates to take part in CNN events in South Carolina next week. Bloomberg will be the first candidate on the town hall schedule, at 8 p.m. ET on Monday. He’ll be followed by Bernie Sanders. The…

UPDATED, 3:30 PM: CNN today canceled its planned “Closing Arguments” town halls with the Democratic presidential candidates as the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump continues. Three White House hopefuls — Sens. Amy Klobuchar, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren — are off the campaign trail while they…

Laura Ingraham fired back at White House hopeful Pete Buttigieg Monday night, in response to his comments criticizing the Fox News host a day earlier during a Democratic town hall. Ingraham hurled a volley of insults at the South Bend, Indiana, mayor on The Ingraham Angle, essentially saying he doesn’t stand a chance…

South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg has booked a town hall on Fox News Channel. Chris Wallace will moderate Buttigieg’s Q&A, airing Sunday, May 19, 7-8PM ET. Buttigieg’s will be the fourth such event of the current election season hosted by FNC and the third featuring a Democratic presidential candidate. Sen. Bernie…

BET is set to air a special this weekend hosted by Soledad O'Brien on criminal justice reform titled American Injustice: A BET Town Hall. The one-hour broadcast will explore what BET describes as “the stark racial disparities that plague America's criminal justice system and offers solutions.” O’Brien will be joined…

Kamala Harris drew 20,000 people to her first campaign rally Sunday in Oakland, and it looks like she has drawing power on the small screen as well. CNN said today that its Monday night event with the junior senator from California was “the most-watched cable news single-candidate election town hall” ever among the…

UPDATED with CNN statement: NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch claimed at CPAC she feared for her life at the CNN town hall on gun violence attended by grieving students and parents from Parkland, Florida, where 17 students and adults were killed at a high school in the country’s latest semi-automatic rifle mass…

CNN has responded to a Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student’s claim the network tried to script his question at its Wednesday night town hall. Colton Haab told a local Florida TV station he declined to appear at the network’s town hall on gun violence, because CNN wanted him to read a scripted question. CNN…