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After blasting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday night, the CBS Evening News and NBC Nightly News returned yet again Wednesday evening to attack and dimish Netanyahu’s election night victory by chalking it up to “hard-line rhetoric” and “a hard right turn” that returned him to office “at a price.”
Teasing the show’s upcoming coverage on the Israeli election, CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley ruled that the Likud Party leader’s “hard-line rhetoric” had “help[ed] him win reelection, but at a price” with the on-screen graphic reading “[c]ostly win.”