Never afraid to serve as a partisan hack on behalf of the Democratic Party, appearing on the Sunday Today show, Meet the Press host Chuck Todd excitedly proclaimed that the DNC had “caught every break they needed” in the Georgia Senate runoff race and predicted that a Republican defeat would do lasting “damage” to the GOP.
Inviting Todd on the program for their usual weekly chat to spew left-wing talking points, host Willie Geist wondered: “We have the two senate runoff elections. What do you see as the state of play there, Chuck? What’s going to happen?” Todd happily declared that everything was leaning in favor of Democrats:
The bottom line is this, Democrats have caught every break they needed here. Whether it’s the mishandling of the coronavirus relief by Mitch McConnell, whether it’s President Trump dividing the party, you name it, right? If you were to script how Democrats win both of these races, every single thing that the Republicans have done in this campaign, you would have asked for. But it’s gonna be very close.
Todd forgot to mention the compliant media willing to cover-up every scandal swirling around both Democratic candidates.
Geist hopefully followed up by asking if Democrat wins would help President-Elect Joe Biden force through his leftist agenda: “So Chuck, let’s say if Democrats do win these two seats....does Joe Biden then actually have a Congress he can work with?” Todd argued that a 50-50 Senate would have “some functionality” and salivated over the possibility of Republican losses: “But I’ll tell you this, I think the – if Democrats sweep these races, I think the damage that it does to the Republican Party and the split that it causes inside the party is what is actually going to hand Joe Biden an easier path to governing, believe it or not.”
Such partisan wish-casting is what passes for “news” coverage on the broadcast networks these days – whatever is good for the Democrats is what reporters root for.
Later on Meet the Press, Todd laughably expressed outrage after Republican Senator Ron Johnson rightfully called out his obvious liberal bias.
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Here is a transcript of the January 3 exchange:
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WILLIE GEIST: Meanwhile, the President himself and Joe Biden tomorrow will be in the state of Georgia on Tuesday. We have the two senate runoff elections. What do you see as the state of play there, Chuck? What’s going to happen?
CHUCK TODD: You know, Willie, I’m going to do this metaphor for you because you’ll humor me with it. This, to me, feels like Clemson/Ohio State, okay?
GEIST: Okay, I’m with you.
TODD: On paper you know this is – the Republicans have the home field and the Republicans should win this. On paper, Clemson had the better team, probably has more NFL players, all of those things. But Daba Swinney was given bulletin board material. President trump is the divider-in-chief here of his own party. On one hand, he’s calling these runoffs illegitimate. On the other hand, he says vote in an illegitimate election.
The bottom line is this, Democrats have caught every break they needed here. Whether it’s the mishandling of the coronavirus relief by Mitch McConnell, whether it’s President Trump dividing the party, you name it, right? If you were to script how Democrats win both of these races, every single thing that the Republicans have done in this campaign, you would have asked for. But it’s gonna be very close. That’s the bottom line, it’s gonna be very close. Yeah.
GEIST: I was going to say, those of you following along at home, Ohio State won that game in a blowout. So Chuck, let’s say if Democrats do win these two seats – which as you say is no easy feat in the state of Georgia, obviously, a Republican stronghold for so long – how different is that
Congress really? Yes, they have the tie breaker with Vice President Kamala Harris, but does Joe Biden then actually have a Congress he can work with?TODD: Maybe. And I think that it will make the Senate – it will make Joe Biden want to almost engage, I think, the Senate even more. He will see that there will be some functionality. Now look, it will immediately start a debate about whether the filibuster should go because it’s going to be such a narrow – a narrow Senate majority with Kamala Harris having to cast tie-breaking votes quite a bit under that scenario. And you’re not going to get huge, big things. But I’ll tell you this, I think the – if Democrats sweep these races, I think the damage that it does to the Republican Party and the split that it causes inside the party is what is actually going to hand Joe Biden an easier path to governing, believe it or not.
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