[More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.]
On the 3 June 2016 edition of NBC Nightly News, Andrea Mitchell touted how Donald Trump's repeated shots at the ethnic background of a federal judge "reinvigorated" Hillary Clinton's presidential bid. Mitchell hyped how "her campaign thinks she has finally cracked the code on how to make the attacks on Trump stick, after that takedown...billed as a foreign policy speech — at times, sounding more like a roast." The liberal journalist later turned to Mark Halperin, who claimed that "Clinton's strong performance...is going to give a lot of Democrats confidence that she — not Sanders — would be the strongest candidate against Trump."