Campaigns & Elections

ABC News could not be happier with how their three vs one presidential debate turned out, Tuesday night. Immediately following the conclusion of the event, the network’s panel of purported journalists were eager to show their excitement talk up Harris, who one host dubbed “the candidate of hope,” even touting a handshake she initiated.

While the pundits argue over how the candidates performed Tuesday night, NewsBusters can say that the performance of the ABC moderators was abysmal as they forced former President Trump into a three-versus-one fight. The night was filled with contentious moments where the moderators took on Trump with slanted/combative questions and targeted him with six fact-checks, evening inviting Vice…

A Meta spokesman admitted to erroneously censoring a Facebook video of a federal official labeling the New York criminal case against former President Donald Trump as a "perversion of justice."

Democrat Bob Casey is the three-term senator from Pennsylvania, but according to a portrayal shown during Monday’s Inside Politics on CNN, one would think Casey was the underdog facing off against the entrenched politician with all the money in the world. The network’s chief congressional correspondent, Manu Raju sounded the alarm, warning that if Casey lost the tight race, Democrats…

The sugar high over the early polls has given way to gloom due to the first "high-quality" survey since Joe Biden was dumped by the Democrats. The grieving Politico team of Ryan Lizza, Rachael Bade, and Eugene Daniels sounded their sad notes of reality check despair in the Sunday Playbook, "Sobering new polls for Harris."

On his eponymous Saturday morning show, anti-gun MSNBC host Ali Velshi gave a commentary against the gun rights portion of the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 agenda. After taking the opportunity to spread the typical misinformation about guns in America, he brought on anti-gun activist Kris Brown of the Brady Campaign to further trash gun rights activists.

On Tuesday's Amanpour & Company on PBS and CNN International, Hari Sreenivasan was seen interviewing a leftist author who accuses the Supreme Court of enabling Republicans to racially discriminate and rig elections in their favor. His book is titled Antidemocratic: Inside the Far Right's 50-Year Plot to Control American Elections.

Well of course. Here’s the headline from Fox News: "NYT editorial board member says it's 'silly' for journalists to hold Harris and Trump equally accountable." 

On Friday, former Vice President Dick Cheney and daughter and former Rep. Liz Cheney endorsed Kamala Harris while the Fraternal Order of Police endorsed Donald Trump. For ABC, NBC, and CBS's Saturday morning shows, the former was a “huge” deal while the latter was portrayed as ironic given Trump’s legal controversies or simply ignored.

ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel’s week of liberal guests concluded with Rep. Eric Swalwell as Kimmel asked such thought-provoking questions as “Ted Cruz, like, is he eating the urinal cakes?” For his part, Swalwell saw something sinister in Republicans being nice to him.

CBS’s Stephen Colbert turned The Late Show into The Democratic Strategy Show on Thursday as he welcomed Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly to the program to promote his new children’s book and Kamala Harris 2024.

Thursday’s edition of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! highlighted just how far the eponymous host is willing to go to boost Democrats this election cycle. During his monologue, Kimmel featured a satirical ad from My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell, played by James Adomian, endorsing Texas Sen. Ted Cruz that featured plenty of juvenile insults and musings about Cruz’s sex life. Later, Kimmel welcomed…

While children across America were going back to school, users across Big Tech platforms found themselves going back to digital jail for exercising their free speech online.

In 2020, PolitiFact gave Georgia Sen. David Perdue a “pants on fire” rating for claiming that rival Jon Ossoff was a socialist. Now, PolitiFact is at it again, giving Donald Trump a similar “pants on fire” on Wednesday for rating for labeling Kamala Harris a communist.