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On Sunday, ABC’s Good Morning America served as the latest example of shameless corporate synergy by touting in its lead 2016 report how actor Tony Goldwyn from the network’s lead drama Scandal spent Saturday giving Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton “a big boost” by campaigning for her Iowa.
In a story that otherwise dealt with the findings of a new poll by The Des Moines Register on the GOP field, correspondent Mary Bruce played up the idea of a rivalry between Republican candidates Ted Cruz and Donald Trump before gushing that Clinton was “getting a big boost from the president — President Fitzgerald Grant” from ABC’s Scandal (played by Goldwyn).