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Chris Cuomo will host a NewsNation town hall with Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), according to a press release from NewsNation.
The event will take place in Detroit, Michigan on October 24 at 8:00 PM ET and will be live-streamed exclusively on Twitter/X. The Elon Musk-owned platform will also be the source of pre-submitted questions for former President Donald Trump’s running mate as well as questions from a studio audience from all political stripes. NewsNation will have editorial control over the event.
“We are honored to bring viewers a town hall with the Vice Presidential nominee for the Republican ticket,” said Cherie Grzech, President of News and Politics. “In this critical election year, the greater the number of opportunities for voters to hear directly from the candidates, the better it is for everyone.”
NewsNation also extended an invitation to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), the running mate of Vice President Kamala Harris to participate in a similar event.
Per their press release, NewsNation will air a special two-hour edition of CUOMO at 9:00 PM ET with an encore of the town hall airing at 11:00 PM ET.
Axios noted that NewsNation’s audience was split fairly evenly between Republicans (35 percent), Democrats (31 percent), and independents (33 percent). Michigan is also seen as a battleground state in the Rust Belt and a crucial electoral vote win for either campaign in November.
Vance has used his campaign appearances to push baseless conspiracy theories about immigrants as well as the 2020 election. He said at a campaign stop in Pennsylvania on Wednesday: “On the election of 2020, I’ve answered this question directly a million times. No, I think there are serious problems in 2020 so did Donald Trump lose the election? Not by the words that I would use.”
Cuomo recently criticized CBS for cutting off Vance’s microphone during the vice presidential debate while delivering a fact-check on his questionable immigration response, saying that Vance “was right.”
