Monday’s CNN News Central criticized Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis for his recent accusation of the media’s role in his low poll numbers, claiming that this accusation was DeSantis “blaming the media for the fact that he’s not doing so well,” and that this claim attributed “way, way, way more authority or influence than the mainstream media has.” Meanwhile, they were ignoring a damaging Axios piece that exposed President Biden’s verbal abuse of his staff.
Anchors Sara Sidner and Kate Bolduan and guests Molly Ball, national political correspondent for TIME, and CNN political commentator Errol Lewis all included their own takes on DeSantis’s accusation. They all came to the conclusion that DeSantis would not “get far blaming the media,” especially since he would apparently need “the help of the media” to “fix” his “real serious problem,” as displayed by the polls.