Fox Information panelist touted as “Democrat voter” outed as anti-vax activist who hates Democrats

A “Democrat voter” that Fox Information invited to debate former President Donald Trump’s Iowa city corridor is definitely a “politically homeless,” anti-vaccine activist who has stated Democratic candidates “are an automated no-no for me” and that she was “voting down poll Republican” in final yr’s midterm elections, The Daily Beast reports. The voter, Stephanie Edmonds, appeared on a “Fox & Buddies”-hosted panel of six voters on Wednesday morning about Trump’s Tuesday evening occasion. Afterward, liberal watchdog Media Issues for America revealed that Edmonds, the panel’s alleged lone Democrat, is a political activist who has publicly rebuked Democrats for years.

Co-host Ainsley Earhardt launched Edmonds as “undecided” and presumably “leaning slightly bit towards Trump,” saying to Edmonds “I do know you’re a Democrat” earlier than asking her how she’s feeling after watching the city corridor. With a graphic describing her as a “Democrat voter,” Edmonds then accused Trump of socialism for serving to to develop COVID vaccines throughout the top of the pandemic. “He teed up a socialist vaccination program that then led to mandates, which brought on folks like me and hundreds of different lecturers to lose their jobs,” Edmond, who misplaced her job for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine, stated earlier than plugging a documentary she’s making in regards to the 2020 lockdowns.

Although she added that “Democrats like me are fleeing from the Democratic Occasion,” Edmonds has beforehand been very vocal about how she is extra Libertarian and solely registered as a Democrat as a result of she resides in a really blue district. Earhardt even referenced that side of Edmonds’ political identification straight throughout a Sept. 28 voter panel on the present, Media Matters reported. Fox Information has beforehand misrepresented on-air friends, based on the Every day Beast, having introduced GOP activists merely as “concerned parents” and Republican political candidates as merely local business owners.