Nets Pummel GOP Over ‘Lagging Candidates,’ Trump ‘Attacking Immigrants’ at Rally

On Tuesday morning, the major broadcast networks used the milestone of three weeks until Election Day to continue delivering discouraging news to any viewer thinking of voting Republican, telling them the party’s “lagging candidates” are suffering nationwide because of a President with “poll numbers near record lows” and spent Monday night “attacking immigrants.”

ABC’s Good Morning America was particularly disgusted by the Trump rally. Co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos complained in a tease that Trump spent his time at a rally trying “to save a Senate seat in a state he won three times” by “attacking immigrant Muslim candidates.”

Stephanopoulos continued the voter suppression effort with another partisan toss to chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce: “We’re gonna get the latest now on President Trump campaigning in red states three weeks before the final midterm votes to shore up lagging candidates with his poll numbers near record lows.”

The Biden regime’s lead apple polisher, Bruce is familiar with spinning partisan narratives: “Trump is blitzing these Republican strongholds, getting out to support candidates in seats that were once considered to be safe, but that could now cost Republicans control of Congress.”

Bruce reveled in telling viewers Trump was in the Buckeye State even though it’s “a state he won three times” because “Republicans are trailing in both the races for governor and senator.”

Scoffing at Trump’s plans to soon visit five states “he won in 2024” as though it’s unheard for presidents to try and gin up the base ahead of a midterm election, Bruce bragged Trump “faces record-low approval ratings.”

Bruce also took far-left loons disrupting Trump rallies as some national barometer:

Voters’ frustrations on display in Ohio. Protesters interrupting Trump, his supporters getting physical with this one top of mind for voters? The cost of living, with gas now averaging $4.32 a gallon and diesel at $6.23. Polls show those rising costs are dragging down Republican candidates, with more voters trusting Democrats to handle the issue than Republicans.

Over at the supposedly MAGA network CBS News, they too were incensed by Trump’s rally. CBS Mornings co-host and past Democratic donor Gayle King emphasized Trump “spent part of Columbus Day with supporters in Ohio stumping for the Senate candidate there, and it was another raucous rally for the President where protesters caused a disturbance in the crowd” that grew “very rowdy.”

Chief White House correspondent Nancy Cordes defined Trump’s “raucous rally in Youngstown, Ohio” by the scenes of “attendees...captured on camera punching and violently pulling the hair of one protester before that protester was mocked by the President...Over the course of the night, at least three protesters were removed.”

Like we’ll see with NBC, Cordes took note of Trump both “rail[ing] against immigration” and praising incumbent Ohio Republican Senator Jon Husted’s “physique” even as “[r]ecent polls show former Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown pulling ahead,” leaving he and other Republicans to hope for “a cash infusion from the world’s richest man,” Elon Musk. 

Instead of CBS, NBC’s Today came off as most balanced. In other words, Today acted like the newscast owned by the David Ellison caricatures concocted by the liberal, elitist media defenders.

NBC first delivered the bad news to Republicans. Co-host Savannah Guthrie told viewers Trump was desperate “to drum up support for Republicans,” while “Democrats looking to expand the map.”

Chief Capitol Hill correspondent Ryan Nobles began with the acknowledgment that early voting has either started or will start shortly in states with key races. He followed that up with Guthrie’s line that “Democrats are expanding their midterm map, making new investments in reliably red states like Ohio, which President Trump won three times.”

Nobles also honed in on “Trump attacking immigrants” and “heaping personal praise on Husted” in a rally “interrupted by protesters” (click “expand”):

NOBLES: The President in Youngstown Monday to support incumbent senator, Jon Husted.

TRUMP: We won this thing by so much in Youngstown.

NOBLES: The event interrupted by protesters. [CROWD BOOS] The crowd and law enforcement responding as Trump looked on.

TRUMP: Go on a diet, fast.

NOBLES: In the speech, Trump attacking immigrants in Ohio —

TRUMP: If you want to stop Ohio from being plundered, ransacked and destroyed — [SCREEN WIPE] — we’re going to stop it.

NOBLES: — and tried to boost Husted, who’s facing a fierce challenge from former Senator Sherrod Brown.

TRUMP: Do not let Sherrod Brown slither his way back into power.

NOBLES: The President heaping personal praise on Husted, a former college football player.

TRUMP: I don’t do this with men very often. I started examining his body, because I didn’t know he was a great athlete.

Nobles also mentioned Kansas, refusing to tag incumbent Republican Senator Roger Marshall’s challenger Adam Hamilton as nothing more than a “Democratic challenger” and “megachurch pastor” concerned about the cost of living.

The balance came in a second politics segment as Guthrie partnered with big-board and data guru Steve Kornacki. After pointing to Trump’s low approval ratings and concerns for the GOP in Maine and Texas, they gave serious thought to GOP pick-up opportunities in Michigan and Minnesota.

Kornacki even mentioned the “big, public benefit, welfare fraud scandal that’s playing out” in the Gopher State that’s been a drag for Democrats (click “expand”):

GUTHRIE: Let’s look at a couple of Republican targets, Michigan topping your list.

KORNACKI: Yeah, take a look at this one here. Republicans are hoping they can turn the table, if Democrats pick up a few seats. If Republicans could get Michigan, that could be a big step to helping Republicans keep control of the Senate here. And the test here is Abdul el-Sayed. We’ve seen candidates as far to the left as him win primaries around the country this year, usually in places where Democrats have no trouble winning in November — in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., New York. This is a state that Donald Trump carried twice. Check out particularly when the returns come in on election night, the suburbs north of Detroit, right here, Oakland County here. Are those voters there, typically Democratic voting — are they comfortable with el-Sayyed, or does he underperform there?

GUTHRIE: And Mike Rogers lost in the last Senate race by 0.3 percent, so this is going to be a very tight race to watch. You have one more that the Republicans are looking at?

KORNACKI: Yeah, and this is sort of the wild card here. We’ll see if Republicans actually put some money here, because the polling has been close in Minnesota here.

GUTHRIE: Minnesota!

KORNACKI: Yeah.

GUTHRIE: A Democratic stronghold, typically.

KORNACKI: Absolutely. 1972, the last time this state voted for Republican for President. There’s a big public benefit, welfare fraud scandal that’s playing out in Minnesota. Peggy Flanagan is the lieutenant governor under Tim Walz. He didn’t run for re-election because of that scandal largely here, so she’s got some baggage here, and the polling has been tight. This one is worth watching.

To see the relevant transcripts from October 13, click here (for ABC), here (for CBS), and here (for NBC).