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There was tremendously positive news on the economic front on Thursday as the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) rebound 33.1 percent, following the massive shutdowns that crippled the economy earlier in the pandemic. But with Election Day just days away, the opposition media desperately needed to squash that good news, push the narrative that country was in a tailspin, and somehow President Trump was responsible for the downturn and not the virus.
The reporting on ABC’s World News Tonight started out fair enough, with chief White House correspondent Jon Karl admitting “the President had something worth boasting about” with the GDA rebound. “A new report shows the economy grew at a record 33.1 percent in the third quarter, as the country began recovering from the even steeper losses triggered by the COVID-19 shutdown,” he reported.
But after playing a soundbite of the President boasting about the figures at a campaign rally in Florida, Karl tried to dump cold water on the good news and highlighted Democratic nominee Joe Biden bashing Trump at his own, smaller Florida rally.
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