CBS Spotlights Dems Boycotting, Protesting Trump’s State of the Union

Nicholas Fondacaro | January 30, 2018
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With President Trump’s first official state of the Union address just a few hours away, CBS Evening News dedicated an entire report (two minutes and seven seconds) on Tuesday to the liberal Democrats who were trying to counter the President’s message.

More than a dozen Democrats are boycotting the President's speech. Many others will protest in a different way,” noted anchor Jeff Glor as he was leading into the report by Congressional Correspondent Nancy Cordes.

Cordes wasted little time in getting to the Democrats who were looking to make their anti-Trump statements. “President Trump will look out on a sea of black tonight, a nod from House Democrats to the movement against harassment,” she noted as she played a clip of Democratic Congresswoman Gwen Moore (Wisc.) attacking the President:

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