CNN’s Anderson Cooper hosted a town hall with Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Wednesday, and, even by CNN’s standards, it was quite the softball session. Not only did both men take advantage of fact-checker Daniel Dale apparently having better things to do with his time by accusing President Trump of “whitewashing American history,” but Cooper even invited the president of American University’s College Republican chapter to use the word “softball” in his question.
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Further on in the program, Cooper introduced a questioner, “I want to introduce Grace Thomas. She's a local civil rights attorney. She's a Democrat. Grace?”
Thomas began by pronoun-checking Cooper, “They/them pronouns, actually. Thank you.” As for the actual question, Thomas worried that practical electoral concerns are hurting the party’s ability to play identity politics, “Polling and turnout data indicate that men of all racial demographics are turning away from the Democratic Party. But of course, white men, in particular, do not feel that the DNC's messaging targets them in the issues that they care about.”
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