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With the midterm elections just two weeks away, the liberal media have ramped up their efforts to drag their dreamboat, Democratic Congressman Beto O’Rourke over the finish line in the Texas Senate race. With President Trump’s visit to campaign for Senator Ted Cruz (R) on Monday, the broadcast networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) seized on the opportunity boast about Beto’s qualities while downplaying his poor poll numbers.
“Running behind and running hard, Democrat Beto O’Rourke hit eight early voting sites today as the President winged in to campaign against him,” declared CBS News chief congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes during CBS Evening News.
All the networks mocked how President Trump was campaigning for Cruz after he called him “Lyin’ Ted” and attacked his family during the GOP primary in 2016. Cordes boasted about how “all those insults took a toll” as she touted O’Rourke getting in an endorsement from a Texas newspaper.
“The Houston Chronicle endorsed O’Rourke Friday, despite backing Cruz in 2012. The paper citing O’Rourke’s ‘command of issues that mattered to the state’ and faulted Cruz's, quote, ‘repellent personality,’” she said before praising how “O’Rourke’s personality and his refusal to move to the right have made him a progressive icon.”
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