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Legendary TV personality Oprah Winfrey stumped for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams in Georgia on Thursday and the liberal media couldn’t get enough of it. During their evening news programs, the major broadcast networks celebrated her efforts as they gushed about her going door-to-door and surprising voters.
At the top of the show, NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt set up the game plans of the left and right in the last few days before the midterms. According to Holt, both sides were “playing their strongest hands tonight”. For President Trump and Republicans, it was “playing the fear card over illegal immigration”. Democrats were using “the O factor”, according to NBC White House correspondent Kristen Welker.
“The talk queen coming off the political sidelines today to rally support for Georgia's Democratic candidate for governor who could make history next Tuesday night,” Holt boasted while Welker suggested “the question on everyone’s mind” was whether or not Oprah was running for president. Perhaps it was the question everyone Welker knew in the liberal media was asking.
There was a common thread through both the NBC report and the report on ABC’s World News Tonight: pushing the accusation GOP gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp was suppression minority votes. “Democrats accusing Abrams’ opponent of using his office, secretary of state, to purge thousands of minorities from the voting rolls,” Welker parroted.
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