While all of the “Big Three” networks were buzzing about the ongoing “GOP civil war” Tuesday, only one wasn’t able to find the time to report the latest deluge of leaked e-mails to plague the Hillary Clinton campaign. ABC dedicated spent three minutes touting how failed presidential candidate Al Gore stumped for Clinton in Florida. “Meantime this evening, a very rare appearance, alongside Hillary Clinton tonight. Al Gore and Clinton back together again,” hyped Anchor David Muir on World News Tonight.
“Your vote really, really, really counts. A lot. You can consider me as exhibit an "A" of that truth,” Gore joked to the Florida crowd at a Clinton Rally. “Even today, the painful memory still fresh,” ABC’s Cecilia Vega noted as she played a clip of the Democratic crowd chanting “You won, you won,” a reference to Gore loss to George W. Bush in 2000. “Take it from me, your vote can make all of the difference in this election,” he continued.
According to Vega, the Clinton campaign’s strategy with tapping Gore is aimed a courting a demographic she continues to struggle with, millennials. “About 1 in 4 millennials now leaning toward a third party candidate,” Vega stated before playing a clip of President Obama scolding millennials for casting “a vote for Trump” with their support for a third party.
What ABC failed to report, but their competitors did, was the latest batch of Clinton Campaign e-mails released by WikiLeaks on Tuesday. “As [Gore] spoke, reporters were poring through a third torch of e-mails hacked from the account of Clinton Campaign Chair John Podesta,” reported Nancy Cordes on CBS Evening News, “The 1,200 e-mails posted by WikiLeaks today, bring the total since Friday to 5,000.”
Cordes even drew attention to an e-mail criticizing Clinton for her private e-mail server, “As Clinton's e-mail controversy swirled last August, think tank president Neera Tanden asked, “Why doesn't she just turn over the server to a third party at this point? Isn't it going to leak out of the FBI Anyway?"”
During Andrea Mitchell’s report on NBC Nightly News Bloomberg’s Mark Halperin shared his dire warning about future e-mail leaks, “This latest batch of documents demonstrates once again that Hillary Clinton is one disclosure away from potentially having this race flip flop once again.”
Closing out her report, Vega seemed to be trying to get out the vote. “A record number of early votes expected this year, as many as 1 in 3 people expected to cast their votes before Election Day,” she told Muir, “And Hillary Clinton and Al Gore were in this state today because the last day to register in Florida is tomorrow.”