On Tuesday morning’s New Day, CNN co-hosts John Berman and Alisyn Camerota brought on political director David Chalian to campaign for Joe Biden. The trio fawned over a new Biden campaign ad, and Chalian even said the ad presented “Biden as president.”
Berman and Chalian began the segment by praising their candidate’s electoral chances:
BERMAN: It's not just where, and where this ad is running is fascinating but it's the what of it also. It's that Joe Biden is focusing on the pandemic in Texas, which says a lot.
CHALIAN: Yeah, I mean, Joe Biden is focusing on the pandemic everywhere. But as you are right to note, John, in Texas as well because of the uptick in cases there. This is -- when you look at the overlay of the states, especially Republican-leaning states, states that we normally see red on election night on the map that are now moving into that real battleground category -- certainly, Florida's been a battleground for years -- but Arizona and Texas and North Carolina -- states with uptick in coronavirus cases but also very important to the electoral map, certainly critical to Donald Trump's path to re-election. I don't know, John, if you can somehow in your mind game out how Donald Trump wins the White House without a Florida or Texas -- and Texas -- in his column. I can't figure a path for him back -- back to re-election.
Excited by the possibility of Biden being able to exploit the coronavirus pandemic, Berman gushed: "Joe Biden needs none of those -- needs none of those states you just mentioned. Donald Trump needs, in all likelihood, every single one of them."
Chalian then lavished praise on the campaign commercial:
Yes, without a doubt. I also think just the -- as Arlette was saying, the contrast, right? I mean, look at Joe Biden wearing a mask at the end, saying "Stay safe and wear a mask," after all those weeks of Donald Trump refusing to do so until this weekend when he went to Walter Reed. Of reasserting to the American people about washing your hands and maintaining social distance. What I think you see here that the campaign is trying to do is sort of like a public service announcement, right? This isn't a traditional campaign ad. It's like a PSA because they want to present Biden as president, what a President Biden would be doing during this pandemic and how he would be communicating with the American public versus what people see from Donald Trump every day.
It is difficult to tell the difference between Biden propaganda and this so-called "reporting." Maybe Chalian should quit pretending to be an objective journalist and join the Biden campaign.
Camerota then disgustingly implied that Biden’s touchy behavior is adorable: "By the way, there are a couple of shots in there of him hugging people, which, of course, is, you know, Biden-esque, except that they're not wearing masks and they should, I assume that's archival."
Yes, Biden can be quite touchy. Just ask Tara Reade. But the Democratic candidate's leftist media puppets have refused to adequately cover her sexual assault allegation against Biden, so Camerota would never bring it up.
Not content with just backing their candidate, Berman and Chalian also bashed President Trump:
BERMAN: One note on the pandemic. Criticism from an unlikely source, maybe, David, for the President. Mick Mulvaney, the former chief of staff, until just a short time ago, wrote an op-ed for CNBC where he's very critical of the testing situation in the United States. He says it is simply inexcusable. He also basically says that you're not going to fix the economy without fixing the pandemic, which is also something that the White House never leans into. How much does this sting in the West Wing this morning?
CHALIAN: Yeah, I know he said it's not popular in some Republican circles to talk about testing, but it -- it's least popular in that oval room in the building in which Mulvaney used to work. But I -- I think your second point, John, is really critical. The whole premise of the Mulvaney op-ed, not just criticizing the testing, but leaning into that the path back economically, the path back to a society that is whole again is through managing and -- and -- and dealing with the pandemic. That's also, I -- I -- you know, the path back for Donald Trump's political success, but he seems unwilling to accept that reality because, as Alisyn was saying just earlier in the program, his strategy seems to be more of one of wishing it away and ignoring it and hoping that that is the way to deal with it. Mick Mulvaney, his former chief of staff, saying quite clearly, no, got to solve these issues in the pandemic, and then other things like the economy will -- will start to repair themselves.
The hacks seem to have forgotten that Biden downplayed the coronavirus in February and attacked Trump for implementing his common-sense China travel ban. But sure, Biden’s ad shows that his handling of COVID would be much better!
CNN’s “news” segments have become Biden campaign rallies.
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Read the full July 14th transcript here:
CNN New Day
07/14/20
6:27:32 AM
JOHN BERMAN: Joining us now, CNN's political director, David Chalian. And David, Alisyn Camerota can tell you that no Democrat has won Texas since Jimmy Carter in 1976.
ALISYN CAMEROTA: I know you guys don't know much about presidential trivia, but it's 1976.
DAVID CHALIAN (CNN’S POLITICAL DIRECTOR): That’s right.
BERMAN: It's not just where, and where this ad is running is fascinating but it's the what of it also. It's that Joe Biden is focusing on the pandemic in Texas, which says a lot.
CHALIAN: Yeah, I mean, Joe Biden is focusing on the pandemic everywhere. But as you are right to note, John, in Texas as well because of the uptick in cases there. This is -- when you look at the overlay of the states, especially Republican-leaning states, states that we normally see red on election night on the map that are now moving into that real battleground category -- certainly, Florida's been a battleground for years -- but Arizona and Texas and North Carolina -- states with uptick in coronavirus cases but also very important to the electoral map, certainly critical to Donald Trump's path to re-election. I don't know, John, if you can somehow in your mind game out how Donald Trump wins the White House without a Florida or Texas -- and Texas -- in his column. I can't figure a path for him back -- back to re-election.
BERMAN: No, he can't do it. But that -- that's interesting, by the way. Joe Biden needs none of those -- needs none of those states you just mentioned.
CHALIAN: Right.
BERMAN: Donald Trump needs, in all likelihood, every single one of them.
CHALIAN: Yes, without a doubt. I also think just the -- as Arlette was saying, the contrast, right? I mean, look at Joe Biden wearing a mask at the end, saying "Stay safe and wear a mask," after all those weeks of Donald Trump refusing to do so until this weekend when he went to Walter Reed. Of reasserting to the American people about washing your hands and maintaining social distance. What I think you see here that the campaign is trying to do is sort of like a public service announcement, right? This isn't a traditional campaign ad. It's like a PSA because they want to present Biden as president, what a President Biden would be doing during this pandemic and how he would be communicating with the American public versus what people see from Donald Trump every day.
CAMEROTA: By the way, there are a couple of shots in there of him hugging people, which, of course, is, you know, Biden-esque, except that they're not wearing masks and they should, I assume that's archival --
CHALIAN: Yeah, throwback Tuesday, perhaps?
CAMEROTA: Yes, I --yes, I guess. That's throwback Thursday, but they should put up a little date, 2015, or something like that, like they do on talk shows right now. But the fact that the campaign is spending $15 million, right? Is that how much this ad buy was?
CHALIAN: Right, this is -- this is part of a large buy that's across several states digitally. But the fact that they're putting up these mid-six figures on television in Texas, Alisyn, is key. Now, listen, I'm a -- I'm a Texas skeptic when it comes to thinking that it is a -- a true battleground. I know that the polling in the last six weeks has shown a competitive race in Texas. And it may be that come November it is still truly competitive. But the amount of resources it would take for Joe Biden to actually compete there, Democrats would have to truly pour a ton of money in there, meaning less money to go to places like Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, that they do need in their corner for Joe Biden to be elected president to me is still a pretty big gamble with a finite world of resources. That being said, it has never looked this attractive to Democrats to play there, not just at the presidential level, but what's going on in the Senate and the House races there as well in -- in decades than it does right now.
BERMAN: One note on the pandemic. Criticism from an unlikely source, maybe, David, for the President. Mick Mulvaney, the former chief of staff, until just a short time ago, wrote an op-ed for CNBC where he's very critical of the testing situation in the United States. He says it is simply inexcusable. He also basically says that you're not going to fix the economy without fixing the pandemic, which is also something that the White House never leans into. How much does this sting in the West Wing this morning?
CHALIAN: Yeah, I know he said it's not popular in some Republican circles to talk about testing, but it -- it's least popular in that oval room in the building in which Mulvaney used to work. But I -- I think your second point, John, is really critical. The whole premise of the Mulvaney op-ed, not just criticizing the testing, but leaning into that the path back economically, the path back to a society that is whole again is through managing and -- and -- and dealing with the pandemic. That's also, I -- I -- you know, the path back for Donald Trump's political success, but he seems unwilling to accept that reality because, as Alisyn was saying just earlier in the program, his strategy seems to be more of one of wishing it away and ignoring it and hoping that that is the way to deal with it. Mick Mulvaney, his former chief of staff, saying quite clearly, no, got to solve these issues in the pandemic, and then other things like the economy will -- will start to repair themselves.
