Fox News is key to the 2020 election, whether liberals like it or not

Pew data shows that 4 percent of Clinton voters in the 2016 primaries were regular Fox News viewers; and other studies show that Fox is particularly adept — moreso than MSNBC, even — at persuading marginal Democratic voters. Notably, the same study that shows a percentage of Clinton voters watched Fox news says that 40 percent of Trump voters were dedicated viewers — suggesting that a decent percentage of the voters Democrats need to win over are watching Fox.

So, though it’s popular among many progressives to see Fox News denied a Democratic debate as the appropriate “punishment” for the loathed network, Republicans are actually laughing at Perez and the DNC for this unforced error. It’s too bad that liberals aren’t listening.