ABC Anchor와 Biden간의 Townhall Debate는 참관자들의 대부분이 Obama전대통령 연설문 작성자와 민주당의 유명한 당원으로Pennsylvania의 이름난 부인이었다. 이들이 민주당 대통령 후보에게 질문을 던졌는데... 그내용이 어떤것이었을까?는 바보가 아닌이상 모두가 추측할수 있는 내용들이었을 것이다. 이러한 비난이 쏟아지자, ABC 는 대답을 하지않고, 입을 꼭 다물고 있다. 또다른 질문자는 Nathan Osburn으로, Obama-Biden정부에서 중소기업부에서 근무 했었던 민주당 후원자라는 것이다. 질문자 모두가 민주당과 깊은 관계를 맺고 있는 사람들이었었다.
Fox News는 Biden과 선거본부에 연락을 취해 Osburn과 Haeck 질문에 대해 평을 해달라고 했엇는데 즉답을 회피하고 말았다. 이번의 Townhall meeting은, 지난 15일에 하기로 했었던 2차 정책대결이 양측간에 의견조율이 안돼 무산된 대신에 급조하여 이루어진 사랑방 정책토론회이었었다.
지금까지는 Joe Biden이 여론조사에서 앞서고 있어, CNN, NYtimes같은 Liberal media들은 열심히 지지하고 있었으나, 그동안 가끔씩 언론에 터지곤 했던, 아들 Joe Biden이 외국에서 사업하면서 검은 Connection과 연결되여 부당하게 국익을 해치면서 부당이익을 취했다는 Fox News를 비롯한 뉴욕포스트등등의 언론이 계속 뉴스보도를 하면서, 어쩌면 다이겨논 Biden 선거 캠프에 먹구름을 끼얹게 될지도 모른다 어두운면이 보이기 시작하는데, 불과 2주남은 기간에 어떻게 반전이되고, 역전이 될지?... 마치 오래전 이회장후보와 노무현 후보간에 갑작스레 나타난 악재로 선거판이 뒤집혔던 기억을 떠오르게 했다.
빌 클링튼 백악관에서 코뮤니케이션 보좌관으로 근무했었던 Stephanopoulos가 요즘 한창 폭발 직전까지 치닫고있는 Joe Biden의 아들 Hunter Biden에 대한 "뉴욕포스트"의 보도에 대한 질문을 하기를 꺼려하고 피해간것에 대한 비난을 많이 받았는데, 당시 부통령이었던 아버지 Joe Biden의 빽을 등어업고, 해외에서 비즈니스를 한 의 정직하지 못한 기업활동을 한 내용을 뉴욕 포스트가 폭로한 경위에 대한 질문을 하고 설명을 들었어야 했다.
같은날, CNN은 Donald Trump대통령이 2016년도 선거당시 많은 도움을 받았던 노인들에게 감사의 행사를 하면서, 이번에도 그들의 지지를 얻고져 노력하면 로서, coronavirus pandemic로 많은 고통을 당하고 있는 고통에 대해서 위로을 말을 했었다.
"여러분들이 사랑하는 분들이 세상을 떠나 온 가족이 슬픔에 잠겨있는 모습에, 내가슴은 찢어지는 아픈 느낌입니다, 라고 플로리다주 Fort Myers에서 심정을 피력했었다. 또한 모인 관중에 언급하기를 "남은 생애동안 노인분들을 위해 헌신할것입니다.'라고 하면서, "그들의 분노에 동감하며, 생명을 잃은 가족의 아픈 심정을 가슴 아프게 느끼고 있읍니다. 그분들을 휩쓸고 지나간 상상하기도 싫은 고통을 나는 알고 있습니다. 가족의 사망으로 영원히 헤여지게됨을 어떻게 그아픔을 표현할수 있겠습니까"
그러나 바로 트럼프 대통령은 톤을 바꾸어, 그를 선거에서 이길수 있도록 도와준 분들을 마치 외계인처럼 대하고, 오후에 있었던 2개의 선거캠패인 유세에서 옛날 방식으로 관중을 향해 그의 주장을 설파했다.
이제 선거가 약 2주 남았는데, 트럼프 대통령은 경쟁이 치열한 여러 주에서 전부통령 Joe Biden에 굉장한 차이로 여론조사에서 뒤지고 있다. 그러나 금요일 그는 그의 메세지를 약살바르게 전달하면서, 그가 하고져하는 그어떤 전략에 대한 설명이 없이 장광설만 늘어 놓았다는 실망을 줬을 뿐이다.
미국뿐 아니라 전세계를 공포로 몰아넣고 있는 Coronavirus Pandemic의 방역조치에서도 양측은 첨예한 대립각을 세우고 있다.
금요일 하룻동안에 coronavirus신규 환자가 지난 7월달이후로 최고로 많은 68,000명이 발생했지만, 트럼프는 그날 오후 집회에서 신규환자가 줄어들고 있는 환상적인 말을 뱉어냈었다. "이제 어둠의 턴넬을 거의 통과하여 밝은 빛이 보이게된다. "라고 Fort Myers관중들에게 선포했는데, CNN은 이를 비꼬면서 실질적으로는 그반대로 확장되고 있는데라고 Murmur하고....
"우리를 비난하는자들과 우리측에 화를 내는자들, 또한 전문적으로 비관론만 펴는 사람들에게 귀기울이지 맙시다."라고 대통령은 역설했다. 아이로니칼 하게도 그를 지지하는 사람들과 한배를 타고있는 사람들에게 성난 목소리로 선거운동을 한것이다. "우리는 자랑스런 어메리칸이고 우리는 반드시 승리 할것입니다.예 꼭 승리할것입니다."라고.
그러나 그는 바이러스가 계속 퍼지고있는 상황을 잠재우기위한 계획 발표는없이, 또한 다음 4년동안에 펼칠 정책에 대한 아무런 계획발표도 없이, 민주당스파이(Democratic spying)와 Bidens부자간의부정투표에 대한 은밀한 계획들이 진행되고있다고 설명하는데 시간을 다 보낸것이다.
반대로 타운홀 미팅에 대한 평을 해달라는 주문에, ABC News는 딴전을 피우면서 타운홀 moderator George Stephanopoulos의 타운홀 개시 성명서를 논평하는것으로 방향을 바꾸기만 했었다.
"어떤이들은 Biden에게 투표할 것이고, 또 어떤이들은 President Trump에게 투표할것이고, 또 어떤이들은 아직도 투표할 후보자를 결정못하고 있는 상황에서, 오늘밤 우리는 최대한 많은 질문들을 하도록 노력할것이다"라고 Stephanopoulos는 방송을 보는 청중들을 향해 설명했다. 이번 미국의 대선은 후보자 연령에서 부터 두 정당간에 치열한 거의 인신공격에 가까운 선거운동으로, 전에는 한번도 겪어보지 못한 상황들이 전개돼고 있는 초유의 상황이 벌어지고있다.
트럼프가 패배하면 정권이양이 순조롭지 않을것이라고 민주당에서는, 상상할수도없는 가상 소설을 쓰는 식으로 악선전을 유권자들에게 퍼뜨리고,이런 선거운동은 전에는 한번도 언급된일이 없었고, 또한 미국으로서는 그런 엉터리 가설을 해서는 안될텐데...
트럼프가 설명한것은, 우편투표를 포함한 유권자 투표가 현재 민주당이 주장하는 식으로 진행되면, 투표결과에 따른 혼선이 있을수 있음을 역설한 내용을 앞뒤 문장은 다 거두절미하고 위에서 언급한것 처럼 정권이양이 제대로 안될것이라는 감언이설로 유권자들을 불안하게 하는 양상이다.
ABC silent after Biden town hall attendees identified as ex-Obama speechwriter, wife of prominent Democrat
ABC is keeping silent amid growing criticism of its town hall with Joe Biden after two of the attendees who asked the Democratic nominee questions were identified as an Obama speechwriter and the wife of a prominent Pennsylvania Democrat.
One of the questioners was Nathan Osburn, who worked for the Office of Public Affairs at the Commerce Department under the Obama-Biden administration and at the Small Business Administration.
Osburn's profession was listed as "communications" on a graphic and his home city was listed as Philadelphia.
BIDEN'S ABC TOWN HALL QUESTIONERS INCLUDE FORMER OBAMA SPEECHWRITER, WIFE OF FORMER PENNSYLVANIA DEM CANDIDATE
Another questioner was Mieke Haeck, who ABC identified as a physical therapist from State College, Pa.
Haeck is also the wife of Ezra Nanes, who in 2018 ran for Pennsylvania state Senate Republican Majority Leader Jake Corman. Nanes is currently an at-large member of the Centre County Democratic Committee.
Nanes praised his wife's appearance at the town hall on Twitter.
ABC NEWS TOWN HALL PARTICIPANTS' DEMOCRATIC TIES HIDDEN, CRITICS SAY
"Our children and I are so proud of our @MiekeHaeck for her courage in asking this question of @JoeBiden and so grateful to our next President for his caring and decisive answer in support of transgender and all LGBTQ people," Nanes wrote.
When reached for comment, ABC News directed Fox News to statements by town hall moderator George Stephanopoulos at the beginning of the event.
"Some are voting for [Biden], some have said they're voting for President Trump, some are still undecided, and we're going to try to take questions from as many as we can tonight," Stephanopoulos told viewers.
ABC News declined additional comment.
ABC'S GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS AVOIDS EXPLOSIVE HUNTER BIDEN REPORT DURING BIDEN TOWN HALL
Fox News reached out to the Biden campaign, Osburn and Haeck for comment and did not immediately receive a response.
Stephanopoulos, who was previously a communications director for the Bill Clinton White House, was also criticized for failing to ask Joe Biden about the explosive New York Post report about Hunter Biden, his overseas business dealings and their potential connection to his father, then-Vice President Biden.
This isn't the first time ABC landed in hot water over one of its town hall events. Last month, The Washington Free Beacon reported that at least two of the so-called "uncommitted voters" who participated in its town hall with President Trump had engaged in liberal political activism or criticized the president on social media.
One of them, Kutztown University professor Ellesia Blaque -- who grilled President Trump on the subject of health care -- expressed her intention to volunteer for Kamala Harris' presidential campaign in a January 2019 tweet. In other tweets, Blaque trashed the president as "pathetic," "a f---ing moron," a "pig," and a "swine." Meanwhile, she identifies as a "liberal Democrat" on her Facebook page.
The other was Philadelphia pastor Carl Day, who was also labeled an "uncommitted" voter by ABC News, but tweeted just last month that he had "never once supported trump and won't now. What I will do is call them out of their foolery."
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In another tweet, Day referred to the Trump slogan "Make America Great Again" as a time when "the n-----s did what they were told in all industries, wouldn't have the audacity to try to enter a white [sic] establishment and didn't talk back to the cops." Day also suggested that Trump is a "villain."
During the town hall, Day pressed Trump on his MAGA catchphrase, asking him when has America "been great for African-Americans in the ghetto of America" and whether he was aware of "how tone-deaf that comes off to African-American communities."
Fox News' Tyler Olson and Brian Flood contributed to this report.
"My heart breaks for every grieving family that has lost a precious loved one," Trump said in Fort Myers, Florida, where he also promised the crowd that he would dedicate his life to seniors. "I feel their anguish and I mourn their loss. I feel their pain. I know that the terrible pain that they have gone through, and you lose someone, and it's nothing to describe what you have to bear. There's nothing to describe it."
But it wasn't long before the President's surprising shift in tone -- one that might have actually helped him win back the many voters he has alienated -- was gone, and he had
pivoted back to his old tactics at two campaign rallies later in the day.
Nearly two weeks before Election Day, Trump is trailing former Vice President
Joe Biden by
wide margins in national and key swing state polls. But he undercut his own message again on Friday, showing how unwilling he is to stick to any strategy that would broaden his appeal beyond his own base.
Coronavirus fantasies
There were more than 68,000 new coronavirus cases in the US on Friday -- the highest one-day total since late July. But Trump spent the afternoon pushing the fantasy that the virus is receding. "The light at the end of the tunnel is here," he told the Fort Myers audience, adding that the US is "rounding the turn," even though all the evidence says otherwise.
"Don't listen to the cynics and angry partisans and professional pessimists," the President said, with no hint of irony about his own angry rhetoric and partisanship. "We are Americans and we will prevail. We are prevailing. We are."
But instead of outlining a plan to curb the spread of the virus, or his agenda for the next four years -- though it's unclear if he has one -- he spent most of his day
unspooling debunked conspiracy theories about voter fraud,
Democratic spying and the Bidens.
Slipping into the familiar role of aggrieved victim, Trump overlooked the pressing needs of the nation to define the election as a battle against "big tech" and the press, angered by the fact that both reporters and social media companies have called out the disinformation he spreads, as well as that of
his allies.
While minimizing the impact of the pandemic, Trump issued slashing, evidence-free attacks on the Biden family, accusing them of corruption.
"The Biden family is a criminal enterprise," he claimed in Macon, Georgia, where the crowd chanted "Lock him up!" "Frankly it makes Crooked Hillary Clinton look like an amateur," Trump added.
Throughout the day he referred to Hunter Biden, one of Biden's sons, as "a vacuum cleaner" to argue that the younger Biden took advantage of his father's connections. There is no evidence of wrongdoing by either Biden. Even
Senate Republicans' probe into the Bidens' dealings in Ukraine, widely regarded as politically motivated, ended in September without uncovering any evidence that Biden abused his powers or changed US policy because of his son's business ties.
Trump also
gave another wink to his conspiracy-embracing supporters with a shout out to Republican
Marjorie Taylor Greene, who's on track to win a US House seat in Georgia and has praised the pro-Trump conspiracy theory known as QAnon. At a town hall on Thursday night, Trump again refused to disavow the dangerous movement under sharp questioning from NBC moderator Savannah Guthrie.
Trump does little to address deficit with female voters
At a time when Trump's reelection prospects could hinge on whether he can win back middle-of-the-road suburban women and encroach on Biden's enormous lead among female voters, Trump revived the sexist trope of the hysterical woman to complain about
his treatment in the NBC town hall. In echoes of his
misogynistic attacks against former Fox News host Megyn Kelly during his last presidential run, he called Guthrie "crazy" after she aggressively questioned him and fact-checked him in real time.
"You watch last night," the President told his Georgia supporters on Friday, referring to the NBC town hall, "and you see the anger and the hatred. And I'm saying (to Guthrie) 'Look, let's just do this thing. Take it easy. Relax.' ... You see that thing where she's screaming?"
"With Savannah," Trump continued, "it was like -- her face -- the anger, the craziness," he said, making motions with his hands to suggest a cloud of anger exploding around her head. "I mean, the craziness last night."
"We got very high marks last night, but they thought it was very unfair," he added, not specifying who "they" was, but accusing ABC News of taking a much softer approach questioning Biden during their policy-focused town hall -- even though Trump claimed earlier in the day that he hadn't bothered to watch Biden's simultaneous event.
Predicting that there will be a "red wave" on Election Day -- in contradiction with all the current polling -- Trump dismissed his own problems with "suburban women" at another point during the Georgia rally.
"I heard they like my policies, but they don't like my personality," Trump said. "They don't care about my personality. They want to be safe, and they want to keep their American dream."
Biden is posting historically strong numbers with female voters, as CNN's Harry Enten
noted in his analysis last week. Biden was up by 25 points among women voters in an average of the last five live interview polls. In the final pre-election polls in 2016, Hillary Clinton had
a 13-point edge among likely female voters.
Some Republicans create distance from Trump
The President's weakened position as he heads into the final stretch of the campaign is giving prominent members of the GOP greater latitude to express their concerns about the direction that Trump has steered the Republican Party as they look to protect their own ambitions and futures.
During a sharp denunciation of Trump on a call with constituents that leaked this week, Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse described the risks to his party in stark terms: "We are staring down the barrel of a blue tsunami," he said.
One factor in that possible blue tsunami is Democrats' robust fundraising efforts, and the fact that many
Democratic Senate challengers are smashing records as the prospects for the GOP in many down-ballot races look increasingly grim.
Trump on Friday waved off the concerns, even among his allies, about the fact that his own campaign has fallen far behind Biden in fundraising, with September reports showing that Biden and the
Democrats outraised Trump and the Republicans by $135 million.
"I could raise more money, I'd be the world's greatest fundraiser, but I just don't want to do it," Trump said Friday night in Georgia, claiming that donors would expect him to grant favors in return.
In his own "red wave" predictions, he also dismissed the evidence of strong enthusiasm among Democrats in the presidential race, as well as in down-ballot races -- despite long lines at the polls in many early voting states and the fact that
some 20 million voters have already cast their ballots. He called it "negative enthusiasm," inspired by Democrats' dislike of him, and claimed enthusiasm from his own supporters could overpower it.
But after tiptoeing around Trump for three-and-a-half years, some prominent Republicans, including Sasse, have distanced themselves from the President as his support continues to erode nationally.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made it clear recently that
he has not visited the White House in many months because he doesn't think the White House coronavirus protocols are adequate.
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who contracted coronavirus and spent seven days in an intensive care unit, bluntly
expressed his regrets about not wearing a mask at the White House during debate prep sessions with Trump and at the Rose Garden ceremony where the President nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Christie said he was lulled into a false sense of security because of the supposedly rigorous White House coronavirus testing regimen.
During his
phone call with some 17,000 constituents, Sasse said the President "kisses dictators' butts" and that the United States "now regularly sells out our allies under his leadership." The Nebraska Republican's comments were first obtained by
The Washington Examiner."The way he treats women and spends like a drunken sailor. The ways I criticized President (Barack) Obama for that kind of spending I've criticized President Trump for as well," Sasse said in comments on the call, which were confirmed by CNN with his office. "He mocks evangelicals behind closed doors. His family has treated the presidency like a business opportunity. He's flirted with White supremacists."
Sasse also said that the President's "stupid political obsessions" and his tactics are hurting Republicans with women and young people.
"If young people become permanent Democrats because they've just been repulsed by the obsessive nature of our politics, or if women who were willing to still vote with the Republican Party in 2016 decide that they need to turn away from this party permanently in the future, the debate is not going to be, you know, 'Ben Sasse, why were you so mean to Donald Trump?'" Sasse said on the call. "It's going to be 'What the heck were any of us thinking that selling a TV-obsessed narcissistic individual to the American people was a good idea?' It is not a good idea."
Former White House chief of staff, retired Marine Gen. John Kelly, who has criticized the President before, has told friends that Trump
"is the most flawed person" he's ever met, according to reporting in a new CNN special scheduled to air Sunday night. "The depths of his dishonesty is just astounding to me," Kelly has said.
And Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, a Republican who has broken with Trump in the past, released
a statement on Friday stating that the President's refusal to denounce "the absurd and dangerous conspiracy theory" QAnon during Thursday night's town hall "continues an alarming pattern."
The 2012 GOP presidential nominee said Trump was part of a pattern where politicians and parties "refuse to forcefully and convincingly repudiate groups like antifa, White supremacists and conspiracy peddlers."
"Rather than expel the rabid fringes and extremes, they have coddled or adopted them, eagerly trading their principles for the hope of electoral victories," Romney said. "As the parties rush down a rabbit hole, they may be opening a door to a political movement that could eventually eclipse them both."
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