NBC Paints Debate as ‘Exposing Disconnects’ in the GOP as Mitchell Defends Hillary from Fiorina

Curtis Houck | September 17, 2015
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All three Thursday network evening newscasts led off with their respective recaps and analysis of the second Republican presidential debate, but NBC Nightly News stood out in proclaiming that the event “expos[ed] disconnects within the Republican Party” on issues such as Iraq in addition to defending Hillary Clinton from Fiorina’s “fierce attack” against her and Planned Parenthood.

In the program’s opening tease, anchor Lester Holt previewed Clinton correspondent and MSNBC host Andrea Mitchell’s report in ruling that there were “questions about whether some of the truth got lost in all the attacks.”

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