CHICAGO, IL (October 17, 2024) – NewsNation today announced that it will host a town hall with U.S. Senator J.D. Vance, Republican nominee for Vice President, on Thursday, October 24th at 8 p.m. ET. The town hall will be live streamed exclusively on social media platform X. Moderated by Chris Cuomo, the one-hour town hall will originate from the Detroit, Michigan, metropolitan area. NewsNation will have editorial control of the event and viewers will have the opportunity to pre-submit questions for Senator Vance through X. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, the Democratic nominee for Vice President, has been invited to participate in a similar event.
“We are honored to bring viewers a town hall with the Vice Presidential nominee for the Republican ticket,” said Cherie Grzech, President of News and Politics. “In this critical election year, the greater the number of opportunities for voters to hear directly from the candidates, the better it is for everyone.”
The town hall will be held in front of a live studio audience comprised of Independents, Democrats and Republicans, and focus on key issues that are important to voters in the battleground state of Michigan, including the economy, health care, and the border.
Following the event, the network will present a special two-hour edition of CUOMO at 9 p.m. ET. An encore presentation of the town hall will air later that evening at 11 p.m. ET.
Mr. Cuomo is the anchor of the network’s top-rated primetime program CUOMO. With over two decades of experience as an investigative journalist and television news anchor, Mr. Cuomo has interviewed presidents, world leaders, and reported from war zones. He is a recipient of the Polk and Peabody Award and the Edward R. Murrow Award for breaking news coverage.
In December 2023, NewsNation hosted the final GOP debate before the Iowa caucuses, receiving critical praise from both Democrats and Republicans. During the 2024 primary cycle, the network hosted town halls with then-Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and then-Republican presidential candidates former Vice President Mike Pence and Vivek Ramaswamy. Earlier this month, NewsNation carried simulcasts of U.S. Senate debates hosted by Nexstar Media Group, Inc., television stations in Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.
NewsNation is consistently rated by journalism watchdog groups such as Ad Fontes Media and AllSides as the most neutral, fact-based, television news network in the nation. The network’s unbiased news coverage also draws the most politically balanced audience among TV news networks according to MRI/Nielsen Fusion. NewsNation viewers are 31% Democrat, 35% Republican, and 33% Independent (MRI/Nielsen Fusion, June 2024. Total day. P18+)
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