Sitting down with an ABC News anchor is a sharp departure from the president’s usual habit of dialing into friendly opinion shows
Donald Trump had an unusual entourage this week as George Stephanopoulos and an ABC News crew followed him to Iowa and met him at the White House for the president’s first network news interview in more than four months, a sign that Trump may be hoping to reach beyond his base ahead of his formal 2020 campaign launch next week.
The ABC News team traveled to Iowa Tuesday on Air Force One and sat in one of the front cabins, separate from the rest of the press corps, according to a White House pool report. One of ABC’s cameramen rode in the president’s helicopter from the White House to Joint Base Andrews, a trip that journalists almost never make. And Stephanopoulos rode in the president’s limousine, known as “The Beast,” according to a source familiar with the trip.
By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. The interview, which is likely to air in part or in full across several ABC News programs, could reach Americans who don’t tune in nightly to sympathetic Trump interviewers like Fox News’ Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham. It comes at a time when the crowd of Democrats seeking to take on Trump in 2020 is increasingly dominating the airwaves, especially with the first party debates approaching in late June.
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