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There was a tale of two messages floating around during the network evening newscasts Thursday, as ABC tried to boast about President Biden rolling up his sleeves to be elbow deep in the negotiations between defiant Democratic factions. Meanwhile, CBS burst their competitor’s narrative to explain why Biden was trying to keep himself at arms-length so as not to sink his own agenda.
“President Biden, meanwhile, in the Oval Office, also working the phones too, his domestic agenda, of course, on the line here,” ABC World News Tonight anchor David Muir touted as he called up senior national correspondent Terry Moran.
Moran piled on with a message of “hope” for the radical liberal agenda pushed by the White House. “Well, they are still hopeful, David, despite this roller coaster of a day. The President, as you say, in the Oval Office all day working the phones, pulling out all the stops,” he told Muir.
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