Brzezinski urges Warren to do Fox News town hall: Candidates should be able to 'walk into any fire' [View all]

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The Hill

MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski on Wednesday urged Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) to agree to a Fox News town hall, after the 2020 presidential hopeful turned the network down.

The "Morning Joe" co-host argued that a candidate "should be able to walk into any situation, walk into any fire" and answer questions if they hope to be elected.

The comment comes the day after Warren publicly declined a Fox News town hall invite while calling the network a "hate-for-profit racket."

“I think just because there are a bunch of good journalists who work there doesn’t erase what’s going on there, which one could argue is exactly as Elizabeth Warren describes it: A direct connection from a corrupt president who is a racist, to megaphones, to people who parrot it, like a bunch of dupes,” Brzezinski said. “That does happen on Fox, that is clear.”

“But I would argue that a presidential candidate should be able to walk into any situation, walk into any fire, and have the confidence and the ability to put it out by spreading the democratic values and his or her beliefs,” she continued. “And I think they should go into Fox and do all the town halls they can do because Fox, you could argue, is smart to be doing these.

I concur: it's good practice for the eventual GE, it's not the equivalent of going on (and validating) Hannity, Ingraham, etc. and there ARE voters to be won over.