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By virtue of its late-night time slot, ABC’s Nightline received the first crack among the major broadcast networks at reacting to Thursday’s Republican presidential debate and, as per the liberal media’s pattern, made all candidates not named Donald Trump an afterthought as three minutes and 34 seconds out of the six-minute-and-58-second segment were devoted to Trump and his boycott of the debate.
Host Byron Pitts noted that the debate in Iowa “was a war of words” with “[c]andidates dueling it out on stage,” but quickly shifted to Trump: “[O]nly minutes away, Donald Trump [was] sticking to his boycott, but adding more fuel to the fire in his rivalry with Fox News. So who stole the show tonight?”