ABC’s Good Morning America has been the reliable broadcast network morning news show for the left (with MSNBC’s Morning Joe holding that claim on cable), but their toolish, real-life North Korean news lady for the Biden-Harris regime — chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce — took it to another level Wednesday by gushing Vice President Harris was not only “reach voters where they are,” but implicitly comparing her to George Washington.
The shameless hack had the led-off story by gushing over Harris as “hoping to reach the small sliver of voters that can still be persuaded with just days to go” and, between “doing targeted interviews, even sitting down with Fox News,” and “holding events with Republicans,” she’s “trying to reach voters where they are.”
Try and read this and decipher if the HarrisHQ X account would have scripted up a segment masquerading as journalism any better (click “expand”):
BRUCE: Hoping to solidify support from black men, the Vice President stopping by black-owned businesses in Detroit and sitting down with popular radio host Charlamagne tha God, outlining her plan to boost black homeownership, grow generational wealth, and lower prescription costs, trying to cut through misinformation about her agenda.
HARRIS: They are trying to scare people away because they know they otherwise have nothing to run on. Ask Donald Trump what his plan is for black Americans.
BRUCE: Speaking to voters who may be swayed by Trump, Harris urging them not to fall for his tough talk.
HARRIS: It’s a sign of weakness that you want to please dictators and seek their flattery and favor. It’s a sign of weakness that you would demean America’s military and America’s service members. It’s a sign of weakness that you don’t have the courage to stand up for the Constitution of the United States and the principles upon which it stands. This man is weak and he is unfit.
Then came with the elongated Washington comparison, first swooning over Harris “trying to win over conservative voters not happy with the former President” with a Pennsylvania speech featuring “over 200 elected Republicans, including former members of Congress like Adam Kinzinger.”
It got even dumber as Bruce hit her final notes:
Harris will make a big push for bipartisan unity urging Republicans to put country ahead of party. She will make the case standing at the same site where George Washington famously crossed the Delaware River during the Revolutionary War arguing she is the candidate who will defend the principles and ideals that this country was founded on.
Co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos flipped the script to talk about former President Trump by screeching that he “was in Chicago yesterday at the Economic Club repeating false claims about the January 6 election, refusing to say whether he’s spoken to Vladamir Putin since he left office.”
Three-time anti-Trump author Jonathan Karl focused on Russia, January 6, and a biased view of “16 Nobel Prize-winning economists” (pulled together by Harris allies) to blast his views on tariffs (click “expand”):
KARL: In that interview before the Economic Club of Chicago, Donald Trump referred to January 6, the day when his supporters attacked the Capitol and tried to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s victory in 2020 as a, “day of love and peace.” Asked whether he would commit to a peaceful transfer of power after this election, Donald Trump pointed to the last one, insisting it was peaceful and bizarrely saying January 6 was a day of love and peace and falsely saying the police invited the rioters into the Capitol building.
TRUMP: It was love and peace and some people went to the Capitol and a lot of strange things happened there. A lot of strange things with people being waved into the capitol by police, with people screaming go in that never got into trouble.
KARL: The reality? Nearly 500 people have been charged with assaulting police officers on January 6. Nearly half of them pleading guilty or being convicted at trial. The former President also defending his plan to impose new tariffs on products imported into the United States.
[TRUMP-BLOOMBERG CLIP]
KARL: In Chicago, Trump also refused to comment on Bob Woodward’s reporting that he has had multiple conversations with Russian leader Vladamir Putin since he left the White House.
[TRUMP-BLOOMBERG CLIP]
KARL: Just days ago, Trump had a different answer, telling me he had not spoken to Putin.
[TRUMP-KARL CLIP]
KARL: The Kremlin has also denied the two men have spoken but they have not denied Woodward’s reporting that Trump secretly sent the Russian leader Covid testing machines during the early days of the pandemic when most Americans could not get Covid tests. Regarding those tariffs, most Americans — most economists say that tariffs — the cost of tariffs are borne by American consumers. And, recently, George, earlier this year a group of 16 Nobel Prize-winning economists warn that the Trump tariffs would, “reignite inflation.”
Stephanopoulos weighed in as well with concern about Trump’s “rhetoric taking an even darker turn” and arguing it’s “absolutely unprecedented in American history.”
NBC’s Today didn’t make the Harris to Washington plunge, but they still carried water for her.
Co-host Savannah Guthrie fretted in a tease that Trump “double[d] down on his rhetoric against those who disagree with him” and boasted Harris was “trying to shore up the key voting block that she continues to struggle with.”
Fellow co-host Hoda Kotb picked up on that first part later in setting the table for the show’s political coverage: “[F]ormer President Trump is doubling down on his controversial comments labeling Democrats, ‘the enemy from within.’ Vice President Harris continuing to condemn his rhetoric.”
Chief White House correspondent Peter Alexander cut straight to the Harris talking points: “Vice President Harris is trying to make sure that voters do not ignore former President Trump’s increasingly incendiary language.”
He added that Trump “doubled down” in a new interview “on his inflammatory remarks, referring to Democrats as the enemy from within” and hyped his friends on the left as having “seized on that language, warning voters a second Trump term would be dangerous.”
On the faux Republican event, Alexander kept it together: “Harris is going to deliver a speech outside of Philadelphia, joined by more than 100 Republicans who support her campaign, Savannah, warning that Trump poses a threat to the Constitution.”
To its credit, CBS Mornings was far more muted.
Correspondent Nikole Killion framed Economic Club event as a place where Trump “rebutted claims his proposal to implement tariffs on foreign goods would hike consumer prices” and “was also coy about reported conversations with Russian President Vladimir Putin.”
White House and election correspondent Ed O’Keefe covered Harris’s stops, correctly admitting trepidation from some in the black community toward her and that, in her Charlamagne tha God interview, she had “to defend herself against accusations she is doing this outreach now, just because of political timing.”
To see the relevant transcripts from October 16, click here (for ABC), here (for CBS), and here (for NBC).
