For the second straight news cycle Monday night and Tuesday morning, the major broadcast networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC continued using their flagship morning and evening newscasts to suffocate with a pillow the campaign of Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL), insisting his “struggling” effort has “plummet[ing] support” to go along with “bleeding cash” and not “met expectations” as he’s being “crush[ed]” by Donald Trump.
This is despite the fact that the Iowa caucuses are six months away, the first 2024 GOP presidential debate isn’t for another month, DeSantis often has more than double the support than the other non-Trump candidates, and raised more money in his first full month as an official candidate than all Republicans and President Biden.
NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt got in on the action Monday, insisting that “Donald Trump’s chief rival for the Republican presidential nomination is struggling. Ron DeSantis’s campaign is burning through cash.”
Over on the CBS Evening News, anchor Norah O’Donnell proclaimed DeSantis was “garnering fresh criticism after he struggled to rise in the polls and now a campaign shake-up” and “losing ground.”
Anti-Trump author and chief elections correspondent Robert Costa was also enthused, “Ron DeSantis’s standing against a former President has plummeted in recent months.”
At the same time on ABC, World News Tonight anchor David Muir touted a poll to brag DeSantis was “trailing Donald Trump by 30 points nationally, even trailing in his home state of Florida.”
Correspondent Rachel Scott further celebrated DeSantis decline by arguing he’s fallen “further and further behind Donald Trump” on all accounts plus Monday’s “new headline: the governor’s campaign is bleeding cash” with “$180,000 on private jets.”
“All the while, the Florida governor under relentless attack from Trump,” she added.
Scott returned for Tuesday’s Good Morning America to argue DeSantis’s “reset” is already failing because Trump has “continu[ed] to crush his rivals” and criticizing Trump has “draw[n] a mixed response from voters in a state where the former President is still very popular.”
CBS Mornings had a far-more neutral segment from correspondent Ed O’Keefe that included voters asserting the race isn’t over, but co-host Nate Burleson set a slanted table:
In the Republican race for president, Florida Governor DeSantis is visiting the state of South Carolina trying to close the gap with the GOP frontrunner, former President Donald Trump. DeSantis just fired nearly ten staff members and his fundraising has not met expectations.
Republican voters are entitled to choose their nominee and can pick whomever. But what they shouldn’t be subjected to is a liberal media with their fingers on the scale.
Tuesday’s election interference from the liberal media was made possible thanks to advertisers such as Ashley Homestore (on CBS), Cadillac (on CBS), Google (on ABC), and Progressive (on ABC and NBC). Follow the links to see their contact information at the MRC’s Conservatives Fight Back page.
To see the relevant transcripts form July 17 and 18, click here (for ABC’s World News Tonight), here (for the CBS Evening News), here (for NBC Nightly News), here (for ABC’s Good Morning America), and here (for CBS Mornings).
