Posted on 10/24/2021 10:06:52 AM PDT by Signalman
Over the weekend, ABC and NBC finally discovered the close gubernatorial race in Virginia between institutional Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican outsider Glenn Youngkin. And with the polls showing a dead heat between them, the networks adopted the talking points of the McAuliffe campaign as they railed against Youngkin as some kind of Donald Trump mini-me. At the same time, they ignored McAuliffe lashing out at Virginia parents for daring to try to have a say in their children’s education.
On Saturday, NBC Nightly News and White House correspondent Monica Alba gushed about former President Barack Obama stumping for McAuliffe and allowed him to preach to their viewers:
ALBA: Former President Obama back on the campaign trail today, rallying for Democrat Terry McAuliffe in the most closely watched political contest of the year.
OBAMA: So, we’re in a turning point right now.
ALBA: Reminding Virginia voters just how tight the governor's race is.
OBAMA: Some of you are plain tired. [Transition] We can't afford to be tired.
ALBA: A Monmouth poll showing McAuliffe and Republican Glen Youngkin neck-and-neck.
OBAMA: You’re going to decide this election and the direction of Virginia and the direction of this country for generations to come.
Fearing the “neck-and-neck” status of the race, Alba pitched McAuliffe to viewers as the “former governor of the commonwealth, running against a businessman backed by former President Trump.”
She followed up with a soundbite of the Democrat proclaiming: “Glen Youngkin is not a reasonable Republican.” But Alba didn’t share a similar swipe from the Republican. Instead, she read a quote where the campaign mocked how the Democrats felt scared and needed to bring in Obama.
Despite how education had become a major part of the Virginia election, NBC refused to mention it at all. That’s because McAuliffe lashed out at parents during a September debate and suggested “I don’t think parents should be telling schools what they should teach.” It was a point he repeatedly doubled down on afterward until it started to hurt him in the polls.
ABC’s Good Morning America and correspondent Elizabeth Schulze were brave enough on Sunday to mention education, but omitted McAuliffe’s attack on parental rights and kept the focus on Youngkin’s opposition to Critical Race Theory:
SCHULZE: Youngkin is gaining ground in polls among women and independents. The former private equity executive and first-time candidate putting education front and center, making the issue with Critical Race Theory a rallying cry.
YOUNGKIN: Critical Race Theory, in fact, forces the division of people based on race, and it's the exact opposite of what we should be doing.
SCHULZE: Republican voter Carla Lanzara says the message resonates with parents frustrated after more than a year of remote learning.
CARLA LANZARA (Virginia voter): For the first time in a very long time, parents saw what their children were learning and they were very concerned about it.
Schulze also gushed about Obama and parroted the anti-Youngkin talking points. “A fiery former President Obama stumping for Democratic candidate Terry McAuliffe, a former governor who calls his Republican opponent Glenn Youngkin the Donald Trump of Virginia,” she said.
Cool! Maybe he can drop McAuliffe outside the margin of cheat.
Massive vote fraud will get him in easily. Everything else is just for show.
Fixed the headline for accuracy.
The internals must be alarming for the rodents.
“…outside the margin of cheat.”
This should become part of the language. I estimate this at 2-3% in rural and small towns, 4% in suburbs and up to 8% in northern cities.
There! Fixed it!!!!
Let's go, Brandon!!!!
When a Dem is losing it’s always reported as “close”.
Yet you refuse to accept my open bet for 2022.
Why? Because you are a professional concern troll.
I think McAuliffe will win easily, just like Newsom did in California.
It does not matter how bad things get under Democrat leadership. The Political Left will never vote for a Conservative.
Voter fraud? Maybe.
But, since the GOP has done absolutely nothing consequential to stop fraud during the last 60 years, why do we even bother to talk about it?
ABC and NBC
Disney and Comcast
<>Massive vote fraud will get him in easily. Everything else is just for show.<>
IIRC, the VA voting season began in mid-September. I hope I’m wrong, but if true, the vote fraud must indeed be enormous.
Neck and neck = solid democrat steal
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