With the advent of many polls showing a tightening race in key battleground states as Election Day comes into view, ABC and NBC both started of their evening news casts Wednesday by glorifying Hillary Clinton’s surrogates on the campaign trail. “Clinton boarding that cross-country flight, knowing her squad of surrogates is swarming the battlegrounds,” hyped ABC’s Cecilia Vega on World News Tonight, “In North Carolina, long lines. People waiting hours to see President Obama.”
Vega mentioned that the president tried to appeal to key demographic for his election victories, millennials and African Americans. “Back in 2008, I won North Carolina by 14,000 votes,” he informed the crowd, “That's about two votes per precinct. If just two votes per precinct went the other way I would have lost North Carolina.” “In Florida, Vice President Joe Biden turning the focus back to Donald Trump… And vouching for Clinton,” Vega continued.
The ABC reporter even showed off how Clinton’s supporters are already excited for her perceived win. “With just six days to go, some Clinton supporters already looking ahead to the history should could make as the nation's first female president,” she stated. Soon after, they continued their effort to discredit FBI Director James Comey by playing up Obama’s shamming of him on Now This.
It was similar on NBC Nightly News as reporter Kristen Walker touted Clinton’s “good news,” “new polls showing her with leads in the key states of Wisconsin and Pennsylvania… And with just six days until Election Day, Clinton is sharpening her attacks.”
Welker also seemed to hype Clinton’s “rare flash of anger” against all Trump supporters, which was triggered by a protestor. “I am sick and tired of the negative, dark, divisive dangerous vision and behavior of people who support Donald Trump,” Clinton shouted to the rally attendees.
In addition to touting Clinton, NBC brought on political analyst Nicolle Wallace who declared that Donald Trump’s efforts are pointless because, “The best-case scenario, if they do everything right, they lose with 266 electoral votes.” She also stated that the damage from the FBI’s investigation has already run its course, with little effect on Clinton.
In stark contrast, the third network in the “Big Three” (CBS) lead off CBS Evening News reporting the cowardly ambush and murder of two police officers in Des Moines, Iowa.