Don Lemon from CNN will moderate the town hall with President Joe Biden
The town hall will last an hour and isn’t about any one issue in particular. CNN’s best guess about issues: Covid, infrastructure and legislative agenda, Afghanistan, the economy, and cybersecurity.
Because this is a town hall, I imagine we will see a happy and relaxed Joe Biden in his element.
Apparently this is an invitation-only audience, which I always think is bullshit when the other side does it. But they are apparently taking every precaution, Covid-wise, so maybe that’s part of it. Or maybe Biden is simply tired of the media participation in all the lies and disinformation, and he wants to control the narrative for this event?
I don’t know if this will be on YouTube, but if it is I will obviously put up the link. Even if we can’t watch it here, we can talk about it here!
In the meantime, here’s what CNN has to say about the various ways to watch the town hall.
- Stream live on CNN.com
- Watch on mobile devices via CNN’s apps for iOS and Android with a log-in to a cable provider.
- Watch on CNNgo – at CNN.com/go on your desktop, smartphone, and iPad.
- Watch via CNNgo apps for Apple TV, Amazon Fire, Android TV, Chromecast, Roku and Samsung Smart TV.
- Available on demand to subscribers via cable/satellite systems, CNNgo platforms and CNN mobile apps.
*In case anyone is worried that I am stepping on TaMara’s toes by posting the Biden LIVE events, not to worry. TaMara asked me if I could cover the Biden LIVE beat while she takes a short break.
Baud
Aren’t they all invitation only? Do they just let anyone in off the street? The question is who decides who to invite.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Shontel Brown’s twitter followers are hoping for some subtle (or not so subtle) shout out, but Biden seems to be a pretty above-the-fray guy.
Of course, he might have taken the whole bowl of shit thing as an affront to his beloved iced creams, so….
WaterGirl
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Remind me what that’s about?
Yutsano
@Baud: I thought there was a public solicitation first then audience members were selected from that. So it is and it isn’t? I’m not sure how it all goes down to be honest.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@WaterGirl: primary for Marcia Fudge’s vacated seat (OH-11) between Shontel Brown, a real Democrat and the Jill Stein-endorsing, Obama-dissing, Biden-slagging, Harris-trashing former head of “Our Revolution” Nina Turner.
But I’m not really following it.
WaterGirl
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Ah yes, thank you!
debbie
@Yutsano:
Feeling better?
Martin
@Baud: Here’s a hint.
So, guessing NGOs that are aligned with the topics of the town hall.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Aren’t there others in the race?
Kathleen
@Martin: Closing The Health Gap is a great organization here in Cincinnati. Good choice.
WaterGirl
The speech is on CNN on my TV, with cable, so I think I will watch it there. If anybody finds a YouTube or other link that WordPress likes, I can embed the video. So far I am coming up blank.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Baud: yup, but the rumor is Turner and Brown are neck-and-neck
Kathleen
Sit down everybody. CNN came to Ohio AND TALKED TO BIDEN SUPPORTERS!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwFeD9yoIY4
Biden is holding Town Hall at Mt St Joe’s, a university about 4 miles from my house. It is run by the Sisters of Charity, who fund so many worthwhile initiatives in my community. The Archbishop of Cincinnati said that he would not have authorized Joe Biden to appear at a Catholic school but the nuns were more than happy to host him!
https://www.wlwt.com/article/what-we-know-about-president-joe-bidens-visit-to-cincinnatis-mount-st-joseph-university/37078907
Baud
@Kathleen:
Check his Grindr account.
WaterGirl
CNN is framing this, of course, as “Biden facing headwinds on Covid, the economy, etc”.
Jeffro
@WaterGirl: yes, yes…Biden, the poor bastard is desperate for approval, for a ‘win’ of any kind…
LOLOLOL
whatever, CNN
it’s not hard to figure out why almost no one’s watching…
Geminid
@Baud: Besides Turner and Brown, there are at least three candidates with experience as elected officials, plus two or more “amateurs.” Turner started out in front, but Brown has gotten separation from the others and is in second place. There is no runoff, so the primary will almost certainly be won with a plurality.
sab
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Nina Turner is running some filthy dirty and probably untrue ads, but the context is so absent that we can’t tell what they are talking about enough to research it.
The sort of ads that if anyone believes them then the Republican will win in November. Very scorched earth.
Brachiator
Biden’s being asked a dumb question about inflation. Good response.
Businesses are trying to make up for lost revenue. You can’t really worry about this.
But “pumping money into the economy” does not necessarily add to inflation.
bbleh
@WaterGirl: @Jeffro: Aw this is just the usual 6-months-in narrative: presidency hanging in the balance, is this the beginning of the end, will issue X mean a Failed Presidency, yadda yadda. File under “ignore.”
Ohio Mom
Just got here, will be following the link to watch.
Want to see if I spy anyone I know in the audience.
Geminid
@sab: Ohio’s Congressional districts will be redrawn next year under a new system, and I think the state may lose a Congressional seat as well. So the OH 11th District will be substantially different in 2022. This primary may just be round one of this fight. That would please TV and radio stations. The current contest will probably set a record for advertising buys in a special election primary.
sab
@Geminid: I know. It is so typical of Nina Turner to do a scorched earth in the primary, when she is supposed to still be a Democrat.
I finally found the underlying story, a nothing burger from tje Intercept. That in itself makes me suspicious.
Turner also ran the ads through her campaign, but without the ” Nina Turner approves rhis message” so it seemed like an outside pac job. They have since spliced the approval onto the front of the ad. Bery weird.
Brachiator
Getting more people into restaurant jobs.
Higher wages, better benefits. Affordable health care. More child care.
But there’s more competition for jobs and it may be that fewer people want to be wait staff.
bbleh
@Brachiator: Lol yeah that was a touchy one. But he finally did get around to saying, pay them more. Like not $7-8 but $15.
debbie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Turner’s gone so negative, she’s got the clergy telling her to cut it out. She’s accused Brown of steering contracts to family members.
ETA Source
Baud
@debbie:
Hopefully that will backfire.
debbie
@sab:
That’s the traditional spot for an approval when it’s a negative ad. Positive ads’ approvals always are at the end.
Ohio Mom
What boring questions, though I can’t say I’m particularly surprised by my neighbors’ lack of imagination or insight.
Little concerned that Biden must be tired — he is stumbling verbally a little, fighting his old stutter I suppose. I want him to stay in great shape, we need him to stay energetic and vital for years to come.
Kathleen
@Baud: Chortle. Indeed. Sick of these clowns.
sab
@debbie: When what actually happpened is Council, over the years, voted to approve contracts with a company her boyfriend’s uncle partly owns. As a member of County Council Brown voted yes along with the rest of Council.
This is sort of getting into Hunter Biden territory.
debbie
@sab:
Yes, and with Susan Sarandon-level distortions.
Yutsano
@debbie: I’m hanging in there. Lots of stuff happened today (almost all positive) so I’m hoping that once I’m expelled from here I’ll be set to convalesce for a month or so. I sound vague but things are looking up.
Also: fuck Nina Turner. If by chance she does win I hope she doesn’t get sat.
Brachiator
@Ohio Mom:
Boring, but basic questions. People just want to get their lives going again.
I did like the question from the woman who asked, “why bother with trying to be bipartisan?”
I preferred this to the usual pundit crap of “why don’t you be nice to Republicans?”
debbie
@Yutsano:
Looking up is good! ?
Geminid
@sab: Turner’s a weird politician. There is something of a cult of personality around her in lefty circles, and I think this may have gone to her head.
When the prospect of this seat opened up, Turner pivoted and has since tried to present herself as a nice, collaborative person. This doesn’t seem to come naturally to her, though.
All the national OH 11 strife will intensify in the next few days when Representatives Ocasio-Cortez (NY) and Clyburn (SC) come to campaign for Turner and for Brown. I hope you let us know your close hand impressions of the effects locally.
Baud
@Geminid:
I think I read that Bernie was going there too.
hells littlest angel
What a decent, charming man!
(OK, he could say, “I’m not kidding” a lot less.)
Baud
@hells littlest angel:
Not watching. He’s doing well?
He does tend to have various verbal tics. I guess tonight’s is I’m not kidding.
Ohio Mom
Brachiator:
Fair enough.
I can’t believe that lawyer said her son died from drug abuse and Biden did not respond to her loss. That is very unBiden-like. That is wheat I mean that he seems off to me.
I wish his answer on immigrants had included an overall statement putting the issue in context: we are a country made of immigrants, we have always been a refuge (quote poem at the Statue of Liberty).
That is our strength and a high value to be proud of. I think people need to be reminded of that, even as they are immersed in right-wing nonsense about immigrants being a problem and a burden — which was implied in that woman’s entire tone as she demanded, “What exactly is your adminstration’s Policy on immigration?” What a chip on her shoulder.
MagdaInBlack
@hells littlest angel: Isn’t it lovely ?
James E Powell
@sab:
Isn’t that the TrueLeft® way? Their brand is that they hate the Democratic Party.
Geminid
@Baud: Well, if you want to win the Twitter primary, Sanders is your man. But I think Sanders lost the 11th District to Biden last year something like 75%-25%, so he may not be so effective in actual GOTV efforts. Hillary Clinton also trounced Sanders there in 2016.
Dan B
@Baud: Apt suggestion.
mrmoshpotato
Time to call off the 1/6 Committee! McCarthy, etal got it covered!
Assclowns all the way down!
Brachiator
CNN post Town Hall show with pundits. As usual, a waste of time.
Baud
@mrmoshpotato:
It’ll be efficient. Cuts out the middle man.
Baud
@Ohio Mom:
I wonder if Biden will talk to her afterwards. He often does that.
L85NJGT
81 million Americans have health insurance thanks to Medicaid.
Ohio Mom
Brachiator:
I don’t know who the panelists are — except for Axelrod, I recognize him — and I agree, they are a waste of time.
Also, I can’t feel sorry for a fellow who owns so many restaurants and can’t find enough workers. Look in the mirror, buster, the answer is most likely there.
Ohio Mom
Baud @48:
I hope so. She identified as a Democrat so she deserves some attention.
Brachiator
@Ohio Mom:
I didn’t catch that at first, but I understand what you mean.
hells littlest angel
@Baud: He seems a bit nervous, but he’s really on top of it. He fully answers the questions he’s asked, and he’s clearly sincere. The audience loves him, too.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: They can grill themselves for 11 hours under oath.
Baud
@hells littlest angel:
Interesting. I wonder why he would be nervous.
jl
Dangitall. Missed it. Hope it went well. I’ll see whether I can find some clips.
Kathleen
@Brachiator: Yup. Immediate click.
jl
@Baud: I swear to God, man. No joke. This ain’t your grandparents’ townhall. Seriously, folks. It’s a whole new ball game.
jl
@Kathleen: Thanks to commenters for the warning. I’ll try to avoid the punditizing.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@mrmoshpotato: Someone asked Pelosi to respond to McCarthy’s accusation that she’s made the committee political and she said, “You must have mistaken me for someone who cares.”
Ohio Mom
Hell’s littlest angel:
You think nervous, I thought tired. Who knows? But the presidency is a grueling job, we have no idea of everything he’s juggling. He could be worried about a million different things and that could be preoccupying him. So much is on the line.
When I first heard the story that Biden reacted to the “Jews will not replace us” march in Charlottesville by declaring, “That’s it, I have to run for President, I’m the one who can win and put this country back on track,” I admit I rolled my eyes. How corny. But now I think, How right he was, and what a miserable lot we are to need him to put aside a well-deserved retirement just to dig us out of our mess.
mrmoshpotato
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Good for Nancy SMASH!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Mr Schiff has something to say
Another Scott
Virginia’s governor election is this November. Youngkin should just give up now.
The ads write themselves…
Go Team D! Run up the score!!
Cheers,
Scott.
debbie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Didn’t McCarthy make a pilgrimage to Bedminster just a few days ago? This has TrumpStink all over it.
Geminid
@debbie: trump knows he has McCarthy over a barrel. When trump says “Grovel!” McCarthy says, “How low?”
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Yutsano:
I’m out of the loop. What happened?
And glad to hear you’re doing, whatever happened
Ohio Mom
Jl @56:
Aaron Rupar has a nice selection of video clips of tonight’s town hall on his Twitter, @atrupar (or just google “Aaron Rupar Twitter”).
zhena gogolia
@Ohio Mom:
I watched a lot of them, and I thought Biden was great, no sense of being tired. What did I miss?
Chetan Murthy
The way Biden just mixes his faith so …. gently into his conversation, never pushing it. That some people had an “altar call” about their antivaxx antics. Man, he’s good.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Edit: Forgot the word better
Yutsano
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Gastrointestinal bleed. This is like the third one I’ve had in like four years. I’m going to be doing some big lifestyle changes once I get out, but this is approaching ridiculous.
Ohio Mom
Zhena gogolia:
There were lots of time you could see that Biden was fighting his stutter. It’s subtle but it’s there. Aaron Rupar’s highlights tend to skip those moments. The meandering though, that’s standard with Biden, I’m not counting those.
I have to add that I am enjoying replaying Biden’s answer to that restaurant owner. As a Cincinnatian, I know of him and enjoyed watching him squirm. Been to his restaurants — they are mediocre but trendy — and know young people who have
been exploitedWorked for him
Soprano2
@Ohio Mom: *sigh* It’s a lot more complicated than “raise all the wages to $15/hr”. There really is a shortage of workers, at least there is here – our unemployment rate is 3.7%. Good servers and bartenders make a lot more than that. Lots of women with young children have left the job market temporarily because of their kids having to do remote school and quarantine. No amount of money can fix that. This is not all about shitty employers, and I resent the implication that it is.
NotMax
Partial summation: 5 takeaways from the Biden CNN town hall in Ohio.
Ohio Mom
Yutsano:
Yikes! Sorry to hear this.
I hope you never give up looking for the right doctor. I had to go through four eye doctors to find the one who could identify and treat the dystrophy that was causing my double vision, and three various medical doctors to get my RA diagnosed.
We’re all pulling for you.
Yutsano
@Ohio Mom: I have a few good things in my corner right now. I have a strong support structure at home. I have several really good physiotherapists who are willing to work with me. I have a good medical care team for some of my needs. I got y’all. You people really do mean the world to me. I’m not forgetting any one of your well wishes or cheers of encouragement.
I also appreciate your statement about the doctors. I had an old boss who had MS. Her diagnosis took six years. Medicine is inexact at best. I’m not giving up on anything. I need some kind of answers I’m not getting yet. And there’s no real reason for me to because dammit if I’m still here able to ask I’m going to.
Ohio Mom
Soprano2:
You are not a crappy boss, I don’t doubt that you are a decent person after reading your comments here for so long.
But that guy — I finally have a face to put with all the stories I’ve heard about him (as I said, I know young people who have worked for his group). And what a sneer on Lanni’s face, and what a dumb question.
The data is out there, the extra unemployment payments are not keeping people out of the workforce.
Biden was right to point out that he’s already given businesses money to help tide them over, and really, what is the president to do? He can’t make people go work for the Thunderdome group. That’s Lanni’s job.
Chetan Murthy
@Soprano2: Where (generally speaking) is “here”, if I may ask?
laura
@Yutsano: {{{{{HUG}}}}} keep on keeping on dear Yutsano.
rikyrah
@Ohio Mom:
How did they resolve your double vision?
rikyrah
@Yutsano:
??????
Ohio Mom
Yutsano:
One more thought before I board the train to sleepland: Something my cousin the nurse once did for her father was look in the medical literature for articles on my uncle’s condition to see if any of the authors were anywhere near my uncle.
The idea being that someone who is actively involved in deep research may know something that everyday clinicians may not. You don’t have to be treated by the researcher, just use them as a second opinion.
Soprano2
@Chetan Murthy: Springfield, MO. We have an Amazon warehouse and a Costco opening here this summer. All kinds of businesses can’t find employees, including ones that pay higher wages.
Ohio Mom
Rikyrah:
I had an area on my cornea with something called “map dot fingerprint dystrophy.” It’s where a layer of the cornea grows thick and folds over on itself and the light rays coming into the eye get scrambled.
The cornea specialist lasered it off at the office. Such a contrast between not getting no answer for over a year and then showing up in an office and having the doctor say, I see what’s wrong, come back next Friday and I’ll fix it.
Of course there are many other reasons a person could be seeing double.
Brachiator
@Yutsano:
Don’t know if this thread is still active, but just wanted to add to your positive outlook here.
I had a vision issue that was missed by previous doctors. It is fortunately not super serious, but I know know how to monitor it. And it is thanks to a great doctor who had an extra amount of insight to go along with her training.
Continued good wishes.
Kathleen
@Yutsano: Wishing you healing!
Uncle Cosmo
And it very well might. Voters really do not like “going negative” on an opponent when there’s no (or not much) there there, and the are liable to react very negatively.
E.g., in the latest Baltimore City Democratic primary, the multiterm incumbent Comptroller was challenged by a multiterm City Councilman. The incumbent, who ceteris paribus should have won in a walk, bombarded mailboxes all over the city with viciously negative ads targeting her challenger – and was thrashed for her trouble.