Fox News confirmed on Wednesday that Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) will be the next 2020 presidential candidate to get a town hall meeting on the network. Klobuchar follows in the footsteps of fellow candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), whose Monday town hall on the conservative-leaning network was both a ratings success and a chance for him to demonstrate the popularity of some of his bolder ideas. “We are incredibly proud of the entire team and look forward to hosting Senator Klobuchar for our next town hall,” Jay Wallace, president and executive editor of Fox News and Fox Business, said in a statement on Wednesday. Sanders, the first major 2020 Democratic presidential candidate to do an event of this type on Fox News, defended his appearance to HuffPost earlier this month. The town hall would allow him to speak directly to red state voters, he argued.

Source: Huffington Post April 17, 2019 20:15 UTC