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With roughly 24-hours until polls closed for the midterm elections, the liberal broadcast networks were out in force Monday evening as they pleaded with viewers to vote for Democratic candidates. From touting Democratic Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill as a moderate to blasting Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp for accusing Democrats of hacking to fantasizing about all the investigations of President Trump the Democrats would start, the liberal networks were all hands on deck.
All three of them (ABC, CBS, and NBC) rhetorically pounded on the desk to emphasize what was at stake in the outcome of the election. “Barack Obama today driving home the Democrats closing message,” touted NBC foreign affairs correspondent Andrea Mitchell on Nightly News. She played a sound bite of Obama claiming a vote could literally save someone’s life from the evil Republicans who wanted to steal people’s health care.
“The stakes are huge. If Democrats win the House, they gain control of committees and subpoena power, the ability to investigate President Trump,” Mitchell added.
On ABC’s World News Tonight, congressional correspondent Mary Bruce fantasized about how Democrats would put Trump “under an intense microscope” with endless investigations.
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