Senator and Democrat presidential candidate Kirsten Gillibrand’s town hall on CNN wasn’t exactly a huge challenge to her candidacy:

Oh, how challenging:

Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand says the NRA opposes background checks because it wants to sell guns to people “on the terror watch list,” “gravely mentally ill with a violent background,” or “criminal[s] convict[ed] for a violent crime” None of this is true CNN offered no pushback pic.twitter.com/Q1Cnb6VvvF — Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) April 10, 2019

No pushback from CNN on a Dem’s claim about guns and the NRA? Say it ain’t so!

CNN claims to know the difference between an apple and a banana- But they can’t identify when someone is totally nuts https://t.co/4sZAzkEO6B — Buck Sexton (@BuckSexton) April 10, 2019

But none of that should have been a surprise based on a clue in Gillibrand’s tweeted promotion of the CNN town hall earlier in the day:

Getting ready for tonight’s CNN town hall! pic.twitter.com/ighOcg2w2s — Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) April 9, 2019

Well look at that…

No better way to get ready for softball questions than playing actual softball. https://t.co/3ZHvIMOFcp — Sara Gonzales (@SaraGonzalesTX) April 9, 2019

She totally telegraphed it:

So, you acknowledge you get softball questions… https://t.co/1gQroxrXJT — The Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) April 9, 2019

Go figure!

By hitting softballs!???? She's either trolling #CNN herself or has no awareness of how they're viewed by so many. #Gillibrand2020 https://t.co/9tb1pNkx9D — Joseph Backholm (@josephbackholm) April 9, 2019

Gillibrand is predicting she'll get lots of softball questions tonight on CNN. https://t.co/VY50GgmRhQ — David Martosko (@dmartosko) April 9, 2019

Getting ready for softballs, Kirsten? Seemingly an appropriate warm-up: https://t.co/1FDSTHtuMG — … (@callmeMallas) April 9, 2019

Those softballs don’t hit themselves… https://t.co/ESxxxDl2Qn — Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) April 9, 2019

We can’t say Gillibrand didn’t call that one!