Everybody knows the Establishment hates Rep. Tulsi Gabbard.
The Hawaii Democrat and 2020 presidential candidate doesn’t bite her tongue when it comes to criticizing her party and the liberal media establishment for betraying the Left’s anti-war values or propping up candidates with long histories of corruption. This has earned her many enemies among the Democratic Party’s establishment, and that has real consequences. Just look at the way CNN snubbed her from its upcoming New Hampshire town hall series.
On Friday, the network announced it will host eight presidential town halls leading up to the New Hampshire Democratic primary. Here’s the list of the candidates it decided to include: Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren, Andrew Yang, Tom Steyer, Bernie Sanders, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, and Deval Patrick. Notice anything?
News: CNN will host eight New Hampshire town halls ahead of Feb. 11 primary:
Feb. 5:
Joe Biden
Elizabeth Warren
Andrew Yang
Tom SteyerFeb. 6:
Bernie Sanders
Pete Buttigieg
Amy Klobuchar
Deval Patrickhttps://t.co/semgBKL4nc— David Wright (@DavidWright_CNN) January 24, 2020
.@TulsiGabbard tonight: “Guess who is the one candidate who didn’t get an invitation? (she raises her hand) Right here.” https://t.co/qTbzWd3UQQ pic.twitter.com/mjNfqL0PmP
— Rob DiRienzo (@RobDiRienzo) January 25, 2020
Gabbard didn’t get invited. She called CNN out for this at a campaign event, and frankly, the candidate has every right to be ticked off.
The congresswoman is outpolling Tom Steyer, Andrew Yang, and Deval Patrick in New Hampshire, according to RealClearPolitics polling averages. Patrick, the former governor of Massachusetts and an establishment favorite, is only polling at 0.3% nationally. Most voters have no idea who this guy is. And while Yang and Steyer fare far better in the polls, they still don’t deserve to be invited, on the basis of objective polling, at Gabbard’s expense.
CNN’s bias is showing. In fact, the network is not even hiding it at this point.
From the way the network sided with Warren to smear Sanders at the last Democratic presidential debate to it now blatantly and inexplicably excluding Gabbard from its town halls, CNN is officially putting its thumb on the scale to hurt anti-establishment candidates.
I thought the network was opposed to election interference? I guess CNN actually only minds when the interference is helping Trump.
