The Daily Background

Before there was the Clinton campaign’s outright question planting, there was Scott McCellen’s questions to sympathetic reporters Jeff Gannon and that Pakistani reporter who always asks questions about Pakistan-US relations. Looks like Giuliani is going about things the original Republican way:

It is not exactly a plant, but Giuliani seems to have at least an overzealous campaigner who asked pretty easy questions at campaign stops both yesterday and today.

Richard Florino, a 52-year-old attorney who identified himself as the co-chair of Giuliani’s campaign in Windham, asked Giuliani Saturday at a Nashua town hall why liberal Democrats were not strong on defense.

“What makes the liberal Democrats so wrong about the threats this country faces?” he asked.
[…]
“I raised my hand,” he said. “If I’m there, I get called on.”

Florino says the Giuliani campaign has not contacted him in connection with the questions he asks, he just somehow consistently gets called on first every time.

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