ABC’s Terry Moran’s report on Thursday’s Good Morning America was so blatantly partisan it would fit in more during MSNBC or CNN’s primetime lineup of Trump haters than on a morning news show.
Moran spent a whole report mocking the Trump campaign’s attacks against Kamala Harris as desperate and "failing," not to mention "sexist." Abandoning any shred left of journalistic integrity, the ABC reporter also sneered at Trump’s claim that Harris was too “far-left” for the country, even though she is ranked as the most liberal Senator in Congress.
Anchor Whit Johnson led into the report boasting how “The Trump campaign has struggled to figure out what line of attack might stick.” Moran also bashed “childish” Trump attempting to criticize an “accomplished and complex” candidate like Harris:
We all know President Trump's political style is not so much to debate opponents as it is to troll them deploying playground insults and childish nicknames to paint a vivid picture in the public mind but in Kamala Harris he's got a complex and accomplished opponent that he can't really seem to pin down yet but he's trying.
The ABC reporter then attacked President Trump for calling Harris “too far left” and “nasty,” as a sexist insult:
“He also went back to his old playbook resorting to a familiar sexist jeer for his new competitor calling the senator ‘nasty,’ trying to portray her as too far left for the country,” he huffed.
Really now. Was it also “sexist” when President Trump called reporters Peter Alexander and Jim Acosta nasty? And how exactly is she NOT “far-left” when she’s earned the most liberal grade in the Senate?
Still reaching, Moran went on to rehash how Trump trashing the Obama era’s unfair housing rule was somehow “stoking racist fears.”
“Trump has also struggled to come up with a vision for his second term, instead he's continued attempts to play up racist fears that a Biden presidency would sink the suburbs by expanding low income housing,” Moran gushed.
Reminder: it’s only the media who keeps bringing up racism when Trump talks about the suburbs, just as they keep bringing up sexism when anyone dares say anything negative about Kamala Harris.
This desperate spinning for the Biden campaign was paid for by GMA’s advertisers, Ashley Homestore and Kia.
Read the transcript below:
ABC
Good Morning America
7:08 AM EST
WHIT JOHNSON: President Trump, of course, wasting no time firing back at Senator Harris again calling her nasty and saying he was surprised that Joe Biden ultimately picked her, but so far the Trump campaign has struggled to figure out what line of attack might stick. Terry Moran is in Washington with more on the white house response. Terry, good morning.
TERRY MORAN: Good morning, Whit. We all know President Trump's political style is not so much to debate opponents as it is to troll them deploying playground insults and childish nicknames to paint a vivid picture in the public mind but in Kamala Harris he's got a complex and accomplished opponent that he can't really seem to pin down yet but he's trying. In a scattershot approach to tearing down Kamala Harris, President Trump unleashed an array of insults highlighting her failed run for the top spot on the democratic ticket.
TRUMP: I watched her poll numbers go boom, boom, boom, down to almost nothing and she left angry, she left mad.
MORAN: He also went back to his old playbook resorting to a familiar sexist jeer for his new competitor calling the senator nasty. Trying to portray her as too far left for the country.
TRUMP: She is a disaster. She’s going to be a disaster I think for the Democrat party. She started off strong; she is super liberal. I heard she is the most liberal person in all of Congress.
MORAN: But so far Republicans have struggled to land a punch firing off an inconsistent barrage of attacks branding Harris as too soft on crime one moment.
SEN. MARSHA BLACKBURN I don't want someone who says that they are not going to be tough on hardened criminals.
MORAN: And an overzealous prosecutor next.
KATRINA PIERSON: She fought to keep inmates locked up in overcrowded prison.
MORAN: While the president is now putting on a show of bravado, claiming Harris was “The kind of opponent everyone dreams of and that he’s eagerly awaiting the vice presidential debate.”
TRUMP: I think he'll do even better against her than he did against Senator Cain which was a total wipeout.
MORAN: just weeks ago, he had this to say.
REPORTER: How do you rate Kamala Harris as a VP?
TRUMP: I think she would be a fine choice.
MORAN: Trump has also struggled to come up with a vision for his second term, instead he's continued attempts to play up racist fears that a Biden presidency would sink the suburbs by expanding low income housing.
TRUMP: They're going to be opening up areas of your neighborhood. They're going to in my opinion destroy suburbia.
MORAN: President Trump won the suburbs in 2016. He beat Hillary Clinton there by four points. This time around he's in trouble. A recent ABC news/"Washington Post" poll shows him down by nine points there, which helps explain these over the top attacks about suburbia. Whit.
