Campaign 2020
Nets Keep Rooting for Recession, Tout Dems ‘Seizing the Moment’
On Monday, all three network morning shows kept rooting for recession as a way to harm President Trump’s 2020 reelection chances. Hosts and correspondents dismissed the White House “attempting to downplay...
Rothman to Morning Joe: Stop Excusing Dem Lies, ‘Rank Racial Agitation’
Appearing on MSNBC’s Morning Joe on Friday, Commentary Magazine editor Noah Rothman called out the hypocritical panel of Trump-hating pundits for excusing unconstitutional policy proposals, outright...
Seth Meyers Attacks Matthews for Grilling Warren on Socialist Schemes
During a live edition of NBC’s Late Night early Thursday morning, left-wing host Seth Meyers attacked MSNBC’s Chris Matthews for daring to challenge Elizabeth Warren on her extreme socialist health...
NBC Debate Analysis: ‘Can We Get Rid of Some of These Candidates?’
Returning to NBC’s Today show Thursday morning to react to night two of CNN’s Democratic debate, political analyst and former Senator Claire McCaskill provided a blunt assessment of expansive field...
Matthews Coaches Biden: ‘Attack the President Over and Over Again’ in Debate
Appearing on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports on Wednesday, just hours before night two of CNN’s Democratic debate, Hardball host Chris Matthews played debate coach for Joe Biden, advising the former...
CBS’s Garrett Admires ‘Ferocity’ of ‘Bold’ Sanders and Warren
While analyzing the first night of the CNN Democratic debate, on Wednesday’s CBS This Morning, chief Washington correspondent Major Garrett touted the “ferocity and intensity” with which Senators...
NBC’s McCaskill Blasts Warren and Sanders for Extreme Health Care Plans
Reacting to night one of CNN’s Democratic debate, on Wednesday’s Today show, NBC News political analysts and former Senator Claire McCaskill was relieved that the radical health care plans advocated...
ABC's Karl Warns: Trump Running on 'Fear, Division, Racial Resentment' in 2020
On Wednesday's Good Morning America, ABC's senior White House correspondent Jon Karl warned co-host George Stephanopoulos that President Trump was "telegraphing an election based on fear, division, racial...
Media Worry Faith in American Dream May Hurt 2020 Dems
On her 9:00 a.m. ET hour show on Thursday, MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle highlighted a recent New York Times article about a study finding that, despite facing economic challenges, southerners in the U.S....
Media Predict GOP Will ‘Lose Big Politically’ on ObamaCare Lawsuit
Ahead of a U.S. appeals court in New Orleans hearing arguments in a Republican-led lawsuit against ObamaCare on Tuesday, the media scared viewers by warning that if the Affordable Care Act was deemed unconstitutional...
MSNBC’s Ruhle: Kamala Harris Isn’t Liberal, Just ‘Too Black’ for Critics
On her 9:00 a.m. ET hour show on Monday, MSNBC anchor Stephanie Ruhle denied that 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris might be too far left for some voters and instead tarred critics of...
Worst Book Club Ever: MSNBC Touts Iowa Dems Reading Every Candidate Memoir
While filling in for Stephanie Ruhle during MSNBC’s 9:00 a.m. ET hour on Monday, anchor Chris Jansing promoted a book club created by Iowa Democrats in which members pledged to read campaign memoirs...
MSNBC Pundits Fear Dems ‘Playing Into Socialism Theme’
On Thursday and Friday, several pundits took to MSNBC to warn that Democrats moving farther and farther to the left in the debates were “playing into this socialism theme that Donald Trump has come up...
Gayle King Gushes Over Kamala Harris: ‘A Star is Born’
During an exclusive network interview with California Senator Kamala Harris on Friday, CBS This Morning co-host and Democratic donor Gayle King couldn’t help sounding like an adoring fan as she gushed...