12 days remain to Election Day, and that means there are 12 days left in this election cycle for ABC News to continue to distinguish themselves as the most comically sycophantic pro-Harris network evening newscast.
Watch as anchor David Muir introduces Mary Bruce’s campaign roundup, with a lengthy brief that could serve as its own report:
DAVID MUIR: We turn now to the race for The White House. Just 12 days now until Election Day but tonight, this number: more than 30 million Americans have already voted in early voting. Both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump tonight in the key battleground states. And tonight, former President Trump vowing, if elected, he will fire Jack Smith, who is prosecuting Trump for allegedly trying to overthrow the results of the last election, and the horror on January 6th. And after CNN invited both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump to a debate or to a town hall, Trump saying no to both, Harris showing up to make her case in front of undecided voters in Pennsylvania. And what she promised. Here's ABC's Mary Bruce.
Two things Muir wants to embed in the audience’s heads before going to Mary Bruce: that Trump wants to fire Jack Smith, and that Kamala Harris made “a promise”to the American public. After driving those points home, Muir tosses to Mary Bruce, the former Chief Apple Polisher to the Biden White House.
Bruce proceeds to repeat what Muir just said, before rehashing the John Kelly allegations. After reading them into the record, Bruce focuses on suggesting that Trump is a coward for not accepting CNN’s invitation to attend a debate or town hall:
MARY BRUCE: That town hall held in place of a proposed debate. Harris had agreed to participate, but Trump refused. Today, Harris taking note.
KAMALA HARRIS: Yet again, Trump not showing up, um, refused to be part of a CNN debate.
BRUCE: And zeroing in on her campaign's closing message that Trump is a danger to the country.
HARRIS: Either you have the choice of a Donald Trump, who will sit in The Oval Office, stewing, plotting revenge, retribution, writing out his enemies list, or what I will be doing, which is responding to folks like the folks last night, with a to-do list.
After aiding and abetting Harris’s efforts to present Trump as a danger to Democracy™, Muir jumps back in and sets Bruce up for her big reveal of The Promise:
MUIR: This has been extraordinary, Mary. A slew of new national polls and battleground state polls both showing this is a dead heat. Some showing Harris is ahead, some showing Trump is ahead, but I wanted to ask you about this CNN event last night, they had invited both Harris and Donald Trump to a debate, or to a town hall. Donald Trump saying no to both. Kamala Harris showing up, in front of those undecided voters in Pennsylvania, and she made a promise.
BRUCE: She did, David. Kamala Harris promising those voters at last night's town hall that she will be a president for all Americans, Democrats, Republicans, and independents. And tonight, she's going to be here in Atlanta, appearing alongside former President Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen. Tomorrow night, she'll be in Houston with Beyonce. The Senate race in that state, of course, razor close. Meanwhile, Donald Trump tomorrow appearing with superstar podcaster Joe Rogan, hoping to appeal to his massive audience of young men. A group Donald Trump is counting on to win this race, David.
Bruce here sounds like a campaign comms person explaining Harris’s “promise” and hyping the celebrities coming to her joint event with former President Barack Obama.
If it weren’t for Regime Media, we’d have none at all.
Click “expand” to view the full transcript of the aforementioned report as aired on ABC World News Tonight on Thursday, October 24th, 2024:
ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT
10/24/24
6:38 PM
DAVID MUIR: We turn now to the race for The White House. Just 12 days now until Election Day but tonight, this number: more than 30 million Americans have already voted in early voting. Both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump tonight in the key battleground states. And tonight, former President Trump vowing, if elected, he will fire Jack Smith, who is prosecuting Trump for allegedly trying to overthrow the results of the last election, and the horror on January 6th. And after CNN invited both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump to a debate or to a town hall, Trump saying no to both, Harris showing up to make her case in front of undecided voters in Pennsylvania. And what she promised. Here's ABC's Mary Bruce.
MARY BRUCE: Tonight, Donald Trump declaring that if he's re-elected, one of his first orders of business will be to fire the special counsel prosecuting him for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Trump saying getting rid of Jack Smith will be, quote, “one of the first things addressed.”
DONALD TRUMP: It's so easy. I would fire him within two seconds.
BRUCE: In an interview later today, Trump saying Smith should be, quote, thrown out of the country. Tonight, Kamala Harris's campaign hitting back, saying, "Donald Trump thinks he's above the law, and these latest comments are right in line with the warnings made by Trump's former Chief of Staff that he wants to rule as a dictator with unchecked power." That former Chief of Staff, retired four-star General John Kelly, told The New York Times Trump fits the definition of a fascist, and would love to rule as a dictator himself.
JOHN KELLY: Oh, I think, you know, I think he'd love to be -- I think he'd love to be just like he was in business. He could tell people to do things and they would do it and not really bother too much about whether -- what the legalities were.
BRUCE: As a retired general, Kelly doesn’t endorse candidates, but he says he's speaking out now, because Trump has vowed to go after his political enemies using the military if necessary, calling them the enemy within. At a CNN town hall, Harris urging voters to heed his warning.
KAMALA HARRIS: I think one has to think about, why would someone who served with him, who is not political, a four-star Marine general, why is he telling the American people now? And frankly, I think of it is -- he's just putting out a 911 call to the American people. Understand what could happen if Donald Trump were back in The White House. And this time, we must take very seriously those folks who knew him best, and who are career people, are not going to be there to hold him back.
BRUCE: That town hall held in place of a proposed debate. Harris had agreed to participate, but Trump refused. Today, Harris taking note.
HARRIS: Yet again, Trump not showing up, um, refused to be part of a CNN debate.
BRUCE: And zeroing in on her campaign's closing message that Trump is a danger to the country.
HARRIS: Either you have the choice of a Donald Trump, who will sit in The Oval Office, stewing, plotting revenge, retribution, writing out his enemies list, or what I will be doing, which is responding to folks like the folks last night, with a to-do list.
BRUCE: Today, in North Carolina, Harris' running mate, Tim Walz, telling young voters to beware of Trump's threats to go after his enemies.
TIM WALZ: Look. I recognize I'm on the top of his list, but don't kid yourself. You are somewhere on this list, too, if you disagree with these people. That's who they are.
BRUCE: And late this evening, Trump lashing out at John Kelly, who was his longest serving Chief of Staff, and before that, his Secretary of Homeland Security.
DONALD TRUMP: I realize I didn't like him, you know, pretty quickly, and was stopping paying attention, but he was a bully who made up stories.
BRUCE: Minutes later, Trump firing up a crowd of supporters in Tempe, Arizona.
TRUMP: This is going to be the biggest and most important election ever, it's going to be the biggest political event, I believe, in our country's history. We have to win. And we don't need it for the big political event, we need it to save our country.
MUIR: This has been extraordinary, Mary. A slew of new national polls and battleground state polls both showing this is a dead heat. Some showing Harris is ahead, some showing Trump is ahead, but I wanted to ask you about this CNN event last night, they had invited both Harris and Donald Trump to a debate, or to a town hall. Donald Trump saying no to both. Kamala Harris showing up, in front of those undecided voters in Pennsylvania, and she made a promise.
BRUCE: She did, David. Kamala Harris promising those voters at last night's town hall that she will be a president for all Americans, Democrats, Republicans, and independents. And tonight, she's going to be here in Atlanta, appearing alongside former President Barack Obama and Bruce Springsteen. Tomorrow night, she'll be in Houston with Beyonce. The Senate race in that state, of course, razor close. Meanwhile, Donald Trump tomorrow appearing with superstar podcaster Joe Rogan, hoping to appeal to his massive audience of young men. A group Donald Trump is counting on to win this race, David.
MUIR: Mary Bruce live in Georgia tonight. Mary, thank you.
