ABC, NBC Fawn Over Ossoff: Democrats’ ‘Best Chance’ Against Trump

Nicholas Fondacaro | April 18, 2017
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With the polls getting ready to close in Georgia’s 6th congressional district, ABC and NBC flaunted their admiration for the young Democrat Jon Ossoff Tuesday evening. “Tonight, the eyes of the political world are on a congressional district in Georgia where an upstart Democrat is trying to win a special election in what has been a Republican-held district for years,” announced Anchor Lester Holt during NBC Nightly News, “Democrats hoping to ride anti-Trump sentiment to victory.

Holt handed it off to reporter Kasie Hunt who declared that “Democrat Jon Ossoff seemed to have come out of nowhere to become his party's first best chance to take on Donald Trump.” She hyped how he was giving Republicans a hard time for a seat that they normally win. “He’s drawn volunteers from all over the country and big name celebrities and he's been attacked by name by President Trump,” she touted.

Some traditionally Republican voters in this suburban Atlanta district just can't stomach the President,” Hunt reported. She then played a clip of a purported Republican who told her that “He has brought, I think, the decorum of the presidency down so low I cannot bring myself to support candidates like that anymore.” The only pro-Trump perspective was an unidentified man saying “Thank god for Trump!”

And in closing out her report, Hunt noted that “Democrats far beyond Georgia hoping this is just the beginning to energize their base of opposition.

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