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In the first network newscasts since Hillary Clinton officially announced her presidential campaign, ABC and NBC cheered Clinton’s announcement on Sunday night and gushed over her campaign video as well as the traffic it received on Twitter. In addition, the networks made no mention of the botched announcement and refused to label her a liberal.
With the CBS Evening News preempted on the East Coast for The Masters, ABC’s World News Tonight led things off with Sunday anchor Tom Llamas eagerly promoting the reach of Clinton’s announcement on social media: “Instead, the campaign kicked off with this video sent out on social media. Twitter lighting up the announcement. Check this out. Retweeted 3 million times the first hour, trending number one across the globe.”