CBS Touts Hillary’s Big Lead with Super-Delegates; Still ‘Made History’ Despite Close Finish

Curtis Houck | February 2, 2016
Font Size

See more in the cross-post on the NewsBusters blog.

Tuesday’s CBS Evening News offered three segments recapping the results of Monday’s Iowa caucuses and in covering the Democratic side, touted Hillary Clinton as having “made history” despite the near-tie with socialist Senator Bernie Sanders plus how she’s already past 15 percent of her way to the nomination based on the superdelegates she’s already amassed. 

Anchor Scott Pelley declared right off the top that “Hillary Clinton made history today, though not the way she hoped” despite being “declared the winner of Iowa's Democratic caucuses by the small margin ever.”