As the 2024 presidential campaign winds down, the Regime Media seek to mitigate any potentially costly gaffes by Team Harris and/or the campaign’s surrogates. Case in point, the suppression of billionaire Mark Cuban’s disgusting remarks on The View, wherein he stated that former President Donald Trump never surrounds himself with strong, intelligent women.
Of the three Regime Media newscasts, only the NBC Nightly News mentioned Cuban’s gross remarks, and did so briefly:
NBC NIGHTLY NEWS
10/31/2024
6:34 PM
GABE GUTIERREZ: But a former NBA owner, now a top Harris surrogate, billionaire Mark Cuban, is facing backlash after he answered why he thought Trump why had not asked Nikki Haley to campaign with him.
MARK CUBAN: Donald Trump, you never see him around strong, intelligent women, ever. It's just that simple. They’re intimidating to him.
ELISE STEFANIK: That attack by Mark Cuban was an attack on tens of millions of hard-working women across this country (VIDEO SWIPE) who proudly support President Trump.
To their credit, NBC actually showed Cuban’s smear of conservative women, then aired Republican reaction, to wit: House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY).
In all, about 25 seconds within a report that ran close to five minutes. But that’s 25 seconds more than was aired on CBS and ABC.
The CBS Evening News is in a state of flux right now, so one might begin to understand. However, there was no excuse for Cuban’s smear not to air on ABC World News Tonight, given that The View is an ABC News product.
No excuse, to be clear, except the most obvious.
Click “expand” to view the full transcript of the aforementioned report as aired on the NBC Nightly News on Thursday, October 31st, 2024:
LESTER HOLT: Good evening and welcome. The final days of 2024 race for president moving at a blistering pace. Both Vice President Harris and former President Trump pushing their messages in the American West tonight, looking to expand the electoral map, while for Harris, pushing her polling advantage among women. Today, highlighting Mr. Trump's vow at a rally last night to, quote, “protect women whether the women like it or not.” Harris calling the remarks very offensive to women. The controversial comments come amid polling showing a clear gender divide in the race with Harris running strong among women, but behind Mr. Trump among men. Trump's trip to the West partly aimed at shoring up his strength among Latino men. Let's head to the campaign trail now for the latest, starting with Gabe Gutierrez.
GABE GUTIERREZ: Tonight, with just five days to go Vice President Harris, with renewed urgency, targeting key battlegrounds Arizona and Nevada.
KAMALA HARRIS: We all know who Donald Trump is. This is someone who is unstable, obsessed with revenge.
GUTIERREZ: And now, attacking former President Trump for these comments about women overnight.
DONALD TRUMP: I want to protect the women of our country. I want to protect the wom-- “sir, please don't say that.” Why? They said, “we think it's -- we think it's very inappropriate for you to say.” I said, well, I'm going to do it whether the women like it or not. I'm going to protect them. I'm going to protect them from migrants coming in. I'm going to protect them from foreign countries that want to hit us with missiles.
GUTIERREZ: Late today the Vice President speaking exclusively with NBC's Yamiche Alcindor.
YAMICHE ALCONDOR: Former President Donald Trump has said he would be a protector of women, whether they like it or not. What do you make of that? And how does that contrast with your views on women and their rights and needs?
HARRIS: Well, I'll just speak on behalf of myself, but also the Americans that I speak with every day around our country, regardless of their gender, which is the majority of Americans believe that women are intelligent enough and should have and be respected for their agency to make decisions for themselves about what is in their best interests and not have their government and certainly not Donald Trump telling them what to do. And his latest comment is just the most recent in a series of examples that we have seen from him in his words and deeds about how he devalues the ability of women to have the choice and the freedom to make decisions about their own bodies.
ALCINDOR: Day One, what's your first executive action?
HARRIS: Well, my first priority, which will probably be the package of bills, is about bringing down the cost of living. So it's about housing. It's about child care. It's about what we need to do to deal with grocery prices.
GUTIERREZ: Tonight, NBA superstar Lebron James is endorsing Harris, posting a video and writing, "The choice is clear to me." But a former NBA owner, now a top Harris surrogate, billionaire Mark Cuban, is facing backlash after he answered why he thought Trump why had not asked Nikki Haley to campaign with him.
MARK CUBAN: Donald Trump, you never see him around strong, intelligent women, ever. It's just that simple. They’re intimidating to him.
ELISE STEFANIK: That attack by Mark Cuban was an attack on tens of millions of hard-working women across this country (VIDEO SWIPE) who proudly support President Trump.
GUTIERREZ: An NBC poll this month suggests a huge gender gap, women supporting Harris by 14 points. But she’s struggling with men who are backing Trump by 16 points. Outside her rally today in Reno, we met Harris supporters Jenny Hildebrand and Kate Becker who say they are deeply offended by Trump’s comments.
KATIE BECKER: I don't trust anything out of his mouth. I don't think he really agrees with women or supports women or respects women given his track history and what he's done.
JENNY HILDEBRAND: It's ironic that he wants to support women on his terms and not ours.
GUTIERREZ: In the race’s critical, final days, Democrats are trying to build on that support among women, with a new ad voiced by Julia Roberts urging women whose male partners back Trump to secretly vote for Harris.
JULIA ROBERTS: You can vote any way you want. And no one will ever know.
GUTIERREZ: Trump supporter Patricia Montez finds that idea insulting, and says the former president's comments last night don't bother her.
PATRICIA MONTEZ: He’s looking out for women's best interests. He’s not going to force somebody into anything. It's just sometimes the way he talks. Call it sometimes locker room talk, guy talk. It's just talk.
HOLT: And Gabe, you're there at the vice president's rally in Reno. We can assume she'll keep the focus on Nevada later tonight?
GUTIERREZ: Yes, Lester. After the event here, she has another late night rally in Las Vegas with Jennifer Lopez. And then she is expected to hit five battleground states over the next few days, including closing out her campaign in must-win Pennsylvania with a large rally in Philadelphia. Lester?
HOLT: All right, Gabe Gutierrez starting us off, thanks.
