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13 June 2012updated 07 Jun 2021 1:52pm

Watch: Fox News anchor asks audience if they support Sanders’ Medicare-for-All bill. It backfires

By Media Mole

During 2020 hopeful Bernie Sander’s Fox News town hall, anchor Bret Baier decided to poll the audience to see who supports the left-wing Vermont senator’s Medicare-for-all proposal. Things didn’t quite go to plan.

“I want to ask the audience a question, if you could raise your hands here, a show of hands for how many people get their insurance from work? Private insurance,” Baier asks the crowd.

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