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Just after the undercard Republican presidential debate began on Tuesday night, the “big three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC offered previews of the impending “freewheeling and fiery slugfest” debate and contrasted that with plenty of laudatory rhetoric for “grown up” Hillary Clinton as she spoke in Minnesota about ISIS and “slamm[ed] Republicans for fearmongering.”
ABC’s World News Tonight featured a friendly piece that began with anchor (and Saturday’s Democratic debate co-moderator) David Muir applauding Clinton for “laying out her own plan to beat ISIS” with socialist opponent Bernie Sanders offering “tough talk on ISIS as well.”