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Tuesday marked 100 years since the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. Shockingly, ABC’s World News Tonight ignored the occasion entirely. And while NBC Nightly News noted the date, they intentionally omitted how President Trump had celebrated the historic achievement for America by finally pardoning women’s suffrage leader Susan B. Anthony.
And credit where it’s due. CBS White House correspondent Ben Tracy closed out his CBS Evening News segment (which bashed Trump on his opposition to mail-in voting) by touting the President’s action.
“Now, while President Trump continues to attack mail-in voting, he's also celebrating voting by pardoning Susan B. Anthony,” he told viewers. “Now, she died back in 1906, but she was never pardoned for illegally voting before women had the right to do so. Today is the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment which gave women that right.”
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