The Fox News Channel will hold a town hall forum with former President Donald Trump that will include a studio audience composed entirely of women, the network said on Friday.
The forum will be taped in Georgia on Tuesday, October 15 and will run the following day on “The Faulkner Focus,” which airs at 11 a.m. Eastern Time (8 a.m. Pacific Time).
The town hall will focus “on issues impacting women ahead of the election,” a network spokesperson said. Fox News has offered a similar town hall forum with Vice President Kamala Harris, who is running on the Democratic ticket, and has extended the interview “multiple times since she became a candidate for president in August,” the spokesperson affirmed.
“Women constitute the largest group of registered and active voters in the United States, so it is paramount that female voters understand where the presidential candidates stand on the issues that matter to them most,” Faulkner said in a statement. “I am looking forward to providing our viewers with an opportunity to learn more about where former President Trump stands on these topics.”
A poll conducted with female voters by Fox News last month revealed abortion rights, health care, immigration and the economy to be among the top issues of importance. A similar poll conducted by the Associated Press and NORC last month found more than half of registered voters are favorable to Trump’s challenger, Vice President Kamala Harris, while only around one-third of voters surveyed have a favorable view of Trump.
At a campaign rally last month, Trump attempted to appease women voters by saying they will be “healthy, happy, confident and free” if they voted for him in November, adding that they will “no longer be thinking about abortion.”
His record on abortion rights has been shaky: As president, he appointed three Supreme Court justices who helped overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark court case that precluded states from imposing restrictions on abortion access. Immediately after the order, “trigger laws” in 13 states were allowed to proceed, and another 13 states were slated to impose similar abortion restrictions, Fox News reported, citing information from the Guttmacher Institute, a pro-choice research group. Fourteen states have made abortion illegal, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights.
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