ABC’s Good Morning America began another workday spewing more thick venom in the direction of former President Trump and his tens of millions of supporters, blasting Sunday’s Madison Square Garden rally as “dark,” “filled with grievances,” “incendiary,” “outright racist,” “profane,” and “vulgar” thanks to Trump as well as a litany of warm-up acts.
In contrast, ABC offered nary a negative word about Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign, touting her as “sprinting toward the finish line, blitzing the battlegrounds, hoping to drive voters to the polls” and “leaning on her most powerful supporters to hammer home what’s at stake,” including a “searing” defense of abortion by former First Lady Michelle Obama.
As always, co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos set the table, look at this framing in an opening tease:
Donald Trump holds a rally in New York City. The former President calls America a nation in decline, labeling Democrats the enemy from within, and the Trump campaign facing backlash for racist and sexist remarks made before he took the stage. One comedian called Puerto Rico “a floating island of garbage.” Kamala Harris hits back. The Vice President in must-win Pennsylvania and Michigan with former First Lady Michelle Obama — [CHEERS] — arguing Harris faces an impossible down standard, laying out the stakes for abortion rights.
Stephanopoulos later had the setup to idolatrous Trump-hating correspondent Rachel Scott, denouncing the rally’s “profane and racist” turn. The latter concurred that Trump’s “rhetoric has turned increasingly dark and filled with grievances” and the Madison Square Garden rally was “completely overshadowed by comments that were vulgar and, at times, just outright racist.”
ABC’s @GStephanopoulos and @RachelVScott reacting on ‘Good Morning America’ to the #MSGRally:
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 28, 2024
Stephanopoulos: “There was a rally marked by profane and racist jokes and — including the opening comedian who called Puerto Rico “a floating island of garbage.” That comment provoked… pic.twitter.com/k4rMaBMVd3
Scott hit more predictable notes, including her declaration that the Trump campaign should have known Tony Hinchcliffe would say something controversial like he did about Puerto Ricans.
ABC’s @RachelVScott seethes over Trump’s #MSRally during ‘Good Morning America’:
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 28, 2024
“The rally was incendiary and vulgar before Trump even stepped on the stage. Several speakers making sexist, profane, and racist comments. One calling Vice President Kamala Harris the devil and the… pic.twitter.com/P7bOGytUxp
This went right into a hard turn to the fluff from Disney’s in-house North Korean news lady for the Biden-Harris regime, Mary Bruce:
ABC’s @MaryKBruce – Disney’s North Korean news lady for Kamala Harris – was enthralled with the Harris rallies in her ‘Good Morning America’ report:
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 28, 2024
“Harris is hitting key states and leaning on her most powerful supporters to hammer home what’s at stake. In the home stretch,… pic.twitter.com/y9MQSiK2sQ
Bruce was enthralled with the escalatory rhetoric from her fellow leftists, voicing zero concerns about Michelle Obama arguing support for Trump and the GOP ticket would put every single woman’s health (and thus life) at stake:
ABC’s Mary Bruce, fawning over Kamala Harris and Michelle Obama as her colleagues rip everything Trump: “And [Michelle Obama] ripped into Trump’s record for mismanaging the pandemic response, to fanning conspiracy theories, and his attempt to steal the 2020 election...But her… pic.twitter.com/Y5h7Pqrcoa
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 28, 2024
Following a polling breakdown from political director Rick Klein, three-time anti-Trump author Jonathan Karl gave his take on the MSG event since he’s been covering Trump “[l]onger than Rachel Scott’s been alive.”
Karl initially gave Trump credit for the “packed” crowd and achieved something no other “Republican figure of my lifetime” could have done in a dark-blue city, but then unloaded:
ABC’s Jonathan Karl, after crediting Trump for the “packed” #MSGRally and “movement” that came to NYC, something “I cannot thinbk of another Republican figure of my lifetime...could have” done:
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 28, 2024
“[T]his was an incredibly dark event. The motivation was that there was love of Trump… pic.twitter.com/Cqow55Sn1C
CBS Mornings and NBC’s Today were more passive and saved much of the criticism for Hinchcliffe.
“Trump the spectacle enthralled thousands of supporters. But the political impact remains unclear. Strategists tell us the words of others on stage, not Trump, could be amplified by Democrats in the coming days,” declared CBS chief election and campaign correspondent Robert Costa.
Co-host Nate Burleson said “comments that, quite frankly, rubbed people the wrong way” with Costa saying “jokes that veered into racist comments — they veered into really offensive remarks” and “speakers that not only just towed the line, they went over the line — crossed it and crossed it boldly.”
White House correspondent Ed O’Keefe had the Kamala propaganda, gushing her rallies were “designed to motivate as many voters as she can” and played walking and talking press release by touting her campaign stops.
Along with ABC and NBC, CBS’s O’Keefe cheered the Beyonce rally, but said nothing about the lies that the pop artist would perform.
NBC co-host Hoda Kotb described the rally and Trump’s speech as having been “overshadowed by racist remarks.” Trump campaign correspondent Garrett Haake repeated the o-word: “Trump's message was over shadowed by some his supporters’ dark and sometimes racist rhetoric.”
White House correspondent Gabe Gutierrez hit all the key notes for the Harris campaign, touting it as “focus[ed] today on the economy, touting her support for manufacturing in a must-win state” of Michigan “where early voting kicked off Saturday and more than one-and-a-half million people have already cast their ballots.”
To see the relevant ABC transcript from October 28, click here.
