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For all the liberal media’s efforts to claim the Republican Party was trying to scare its base to the polls, they were really working hard to paint the GOP as racist bogeymen. During Thursday’s edition of CBS Evening News, the broadcast network parroted Democratic talking points asserting the GOP was purging the voter rolls in Georgia of minorities.
With no apparent effort to corroborate the claims or explain how the voting processes worked, anchor Jeff Glor kicked off the segment by declaring: “The Democratic candidate charges the Republican is working to suppress minority voting. Republicans say they are trying to stop voter fraud.”
Congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes tipped her hand right at the start of the report with a soundbite of one black woman telling her “the votes are being purged.” The CBS reporter followed that up by saying “the right to vote” was one of the biggest issues for Georgia in 2018.
“Democrat Stacy Abrams, who is vying to become the nation's first female African American governor, accuses her GOP opponent, Brian Kemp, of trying to restrict black voting,” Cordes repeated. She threw suspicion on GOP gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp because he “currently serves as secretary of state, which means he runs Georgia's election system.”
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