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In a press conference on Thursday, President Trump covered a vast range of topics dealing with the 2020 election, including the “great achievement” in the House of Representatives were Republican women won the day in large numbers. Of course, those victories had been largely ignored but Trump’s mention of them forced CBS Evening News to finally acknowledge those victories. But instead of just reporting on who those women were, anchor Norah O’Donnell wanted to fact-check the President.
After blasting the incompetent pollsters whose predictions were grossly inaccurate and accusing them of voter suppression, Trump told the press about the GOP wins:
Yet, for the first time ever, we lost zero races in the House. I was talking to Kevin McCarthy today. He said he couldn't believe it, zero races, very unusual thing, zero. And, actually, won many new seats with, I think, many more on the way. This was also the year of the Republican woman. More Republican women were elected to Congress than ever before. That's a great achievement.
Now, given that the liberal media were largely ignoring the House results (with NBC openly decrying them) it was likely the first time CBS’s viewers had heard it from them.
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