FOX News Channel to Host a Town Hall With 2020 Democratic Presidential Candidate Mayor Pete Buttigieg on Sunday, January 26th...
January 07 2020 - 6:48PM
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FOX News Sunday’s Chris Wallace to Moderate
FOX News Channel (FNC) will present a town hall with 2020
Democratic presidential candidate and former Mayor Pete Buttigieg
of South Bend, IN on Sunday, January 26th, announced Jay Wallace,
president and executive editor of FOX News Media. Moderated by FOX
News Sunday’s Chris Wallace, FNC’s first town hall of 2020 will
take place live at 7PM/ET in Des Moines, IA and focus on the top
issues facing voters one week prior to the Iowa caucuses.
In making the announcement, Wallace said, “We are pleased to
host Mayor Buttigieg for the second time this election cycle for a
timely town hall in the influential state of Iowa. Once again, we
are looking forward to providing our millions of viewers with an
insightful discussion ahead of the first major contest of the
primary season.”
This marks the seventh town hall event of the current election
season hosted by FNC and will be the sixth with a Democratic
presidential candidate. Most recently, Special Report’s Bret Baier
and The Story’s Martha MacCallum held a town hall with former 2020
Democratic presidential candidate and former HUD Secretary Julián
Castro, which garnered 1.1 million viewers, according to Nielsen
Media Research. Additionally, the network hosted town halls with
2020 Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
and former candidate Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY). FNC’s town
hall with 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Senator Bernie
Sanders (I-VT) in April remains the highest-rated town hall of any
candidate this cycle in total viewership, with 2.5 million
viewers.
The Buttigieg town hall will be moderator Chris Wallace’s third
of the season. During his tenure at FNC, Wallace has participated
in coverage of nearly every major political event and has played an
integral role in the network’s election coverage since 2004. Most
notably, Wallace was the first journalist from FNC to moderate a
general election presidential debate, which took place at the
University of Nevada, Las Vegas in October 2016. He received praise
from both sides of the aisle for his tough questioning of then
presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton at the
third and final debate leading up to the election.
As anchor of FOX News Sunday, Wallace joined the network in 2003
and is based in Washington, D.C. With more than 55 years of
experience in broadcasting, Wallace has secured several
high-profile interviews with dignitaries and U.S. leaders
including: an Emmy-nominated and widely-praised sit down with
Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Helsinki Summit in 2018; an
exclusive interview with French President Emmanuel Macron; the
first interview with President Donald Trump after he was elected in
2016; an interview with then-Democratic presidential nominee
Hillary Clinton, and an exclusive interview with then-President
Barack Obama in 2016.
FOX News Channel (FNC) is a 24-hour all-encompassing news
service delivering breaking news as well as political and business
news. The number one network in cable, FNC is a unit of FOX News
Media and has been the most watched television news channel for
more than 17 consecutive years. According to a 2019 Suffolk
University poll, FOX News is the most trusted source for television
news or commentary in the country, while a 2019 Brand Keys Emotion
Engagement Brand Analysis survey found that FOX News was the most
trusted cable news brand. A 2019 Morning Consult poll reported FOX
News as the most-watched cable channel among independents in the
county. Owned by FOX Corporation, FNC is available in nearly 90
million homes and dominates the cable news landscape, routinely
notching the top ten programs in the genre.
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