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Having not touched New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s nursing home scandal story since Monday, despite two days of continuously unfolding revelations, the Thursday edition of ABC’s World News Tonight spent just 54 seconds telling viewers about the federal investigation into his corruption. And ignoring the moves by state Democrats to remove his emergency powers and possibly impeach him, the left-leaning broadcast network spent nearly four times (3.85) the airtime focused on Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) bad Cancun optics.
In all, World News Tonight spent 3 minutes and 28 seconds going after the Republican Senator because, according to him, he was dropping off his daughter and her friends in Cancun, Mexico since school was canceled the rest of the week. His decision to take the trip came as Texas was in the middle of a crisis where many were without power and water as a deep freeze crippled the state’s power grid.
But judging by the fervor in which ABC correspondent Trevor Ault was going at the Senator, one would think he was the cause of the outage. “Just Monday, Cruz warned his fellow Texans a dangerous storm was coming. Even urging them to stay home,” he told viewers. “Of course, the Senator didn't stay home himself. Two days later, he was off to Mexico.”
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