On the heels of ABC, CBS, and NBC singing the praises Thursday night of longtime Northern Virginia resident Liz Cheney (who pretends to reside in Wyoming), the same networks also devoted time on their Friday morning news shows to cheering “staunch conservative” Cheney campaigning with Vice President Kamala Harris, calling it “an astonishing sight” and “a major moment” in the election and emblematic of “the difficult choice” Republican voters face.
Unsurprisingly, ABC’s Good Morning America was the most ebullient. Mary Bruce – Disney’s resident North Korean news lady for Democrats – was pathetic:
[T]his was really an astonishing sight and a powerful reminder of the difficult choice that many Republicans are facing. Liz Cheney out on the campaign trail with the Democratic nominee. Now, she did note how unusual their pairing is, but she said the stakes are simply too high for disillusioned Republicans to sit this one out, that the nation's very democracy is on the line.
Bruce then called Cheney “the most prominent conservative to cross party lines in this race” and “[stood] shoulder to shoulder with Kamala Harris on a mission to convince her fellow Republicans to put country over party.”
Eagerly sharing that Cheney “argu[ed] Trump is a danger to democracy”, Bruce pivoted to Trump’s campaign rally in Michigan, huffing that he “repeat[ed] false assertions about the 2020 election and a series of other subjects.”
The walking Biden-Harris regime tool closed with more approved talking points, gushing “Harris receiv[ed] another notable endorsement” with “Bruce Springsteen offering his support with a similar warning, saying ‘Trump doesn't understand what it means to be deeply American’” and Barack Obama plans to stump for Harris next week.
NBC’s Today was right behind. After co-host Hoda Kotb labeled Cheney “one of Trump’s biggest conservative critics,” chief White House correspondent Peter Alexander extolled the “unlikely partnership” of Harris with the “staunchly conservative” Cheney, “the daughter of a staunchly conservative Vice President.”
Alexander called the rally Harris’s “most forceful pitch yet to swing state voters” while bashed Donald Trump responding to the Cheney endorsement by “personal attacking” her “on Fox News.
Like Bruce, Alexander closed by hailing Springsteen endorsement as though it matters and trumpeting Obama’s planned campaign tour.
CBS Mornings co-host Tony Dokoupil started the 2024 segment with Trump, saying he “went back to the well” of 2020 despite the new court filing by Special Counsel Jack Smith.
Only then did he pivot to Cheney and Harris campaign, which he described as “a bipartisan scene that would have been basically impossible to imagine in previous elections.”
Chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes acknowledged Cheney was only the last of “a bunch of Republicans to announce” support for Harris, but argued “Cheney really took it a step further” by campaigning against someone who’s “in her view, an unprecedented threat” to America.
“Former Congresswoman Liz Cheney may be conservative, but at a rally in Eastern Wisconsin, she argued voting against the Republican nominee is the patriotic thing to do,” Cordes boasted, adding it’s “a major moment” the Harris team hopes will propel them to “win over even a sliver of Republican voters.”
Exit question for Cheney: If Trump is “unprecedented” in the “threat” he poses to America, does that mean he’s more dangerous than the Japanese who bombed Pearl Harbor or, say, the 9/11 hijackers who killed thousands?
To see the relevant transcripts from October 4, click here (for ABC), here (for CBS), and here (for NBC).
