ABC’s Good Morning America has spent the presidential election as the undisputed worst morning news show of the broadcast networks and, sure enough, it lived up to it Tuesday on Election Day by oozing hope for Vice President Kamala Harris to emerge victorious thanks to “joy” itself and “a message of unity and optimism, promising to be a president for all Americans.”
In contrast, they blasted former President Donald Trump as mired in “dark” and “anti-immigrant language” and his team feeling “a vibe shift” of impending doom.
Moments after co-host Michael Strahan boasted in a tease Harris is “looking to chart a new course” with America (ignoring the fact she’s been Vice President for four years), Mary Bruce arrived, fulfilling her unofficial duty as Disney’s in-house Njorth Korean news lady for the Harris campaign, gushing over Harris “sprinting across the finish line, closing out her historic candidacy with a message of unity and optimism, promising to be a president for all Americans.”
Bruce continued, swooning over Harris as though her candidacy and policy views are unobjectionable:
ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ putting its thumb on the scales for Kamala Harris, boosting voters that she has this election in the bag. Mary Bruce gushed her “historic candidacy” was buoyed by “message of unity,” “optimism,” and “promising to be a president for all Americans”:… pic.twitter.com/8MbsePS8XU
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 5, 2024
The ABC partisan also cheered Harris fake door knocking:
ABC's Mary Bruce has no problem with Kamala Harris's staged door knock in Pennsylvania, touting it as genuine campainging and "joining" her team by being on the ground to help knock on one of "five million doors"
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 5, 2024
They didn't say that about Trump's McDonald's visit! pic.twitter.com/G4iv2jnlw3
Asked about the mood she’s hearing from her comrades inside the Harris campaign, Bruce was effusive in assuring liberal views that she’s got this:
The giddiness for Kamala Harris from ABC and Mary Bruce this entire election has been nauseating. By far the biggest pro-Harris network correspondent:
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 5, 2024
Bruce: “Her campaign telling me she is running through the tape on this race.”
Michael Strahan: “Yeah, they are sprinting.… pic.twitter.com/mLtX2IvCak
As we’ve seen throughout the election, the stark contrast reared its ugly head with Bruce’s ebullience for Harris giving way to venom toward Trump, whining the “twice-impeached former president who was convicted of a crime” has a “dark” “closing message”:
ABC’s @RachelVScott uses her ‘Good Morning America’ report on the Trump campaign to attack the “twice impeached former President who was convicted of a crime” for spending a final day hurling “insults,” using “dark” rhetoric, “spreading false claims about election integrity,”… pic.twitter.com/OLWqzuL0D9
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 5, 2024
Scott also huffed about Trump as “anti-immigrant” and denounced his promises of mass deportation of illegal immigrants. She also made a direct plea to women voters thinking of backing Trump by boasting Harris “has seized on the former President’s comments that he would protect women whether they like it or not and Trump’s own statements that he would put Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has pushed a range of conspiracy theories, in large of women’s health.”
Scott gave an ominous answer about the mood of the Trump campaign, suggesting they’re screwed:
More nonsense from ABC’s Rachel Scott kicking dirt on Donald Trump’s election chances, touting Tony Hinchcliffe and lying about his Liz Cheney comments:
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 5, 2024
“[The Trump campaign] feel[s] good about what they’re seeing in the early voting numbers. But there have been a vibe shift in… pic.twitter.com/Tcre8VQgZo
In the second half-hour, co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos had a mini-roundtable with longtime ABC News political analyst and Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, former Trump chief of staff Reince Priebus, and former New Jersey GOP Governor Chris Christie.
All three gave predictable answers, including Christie repeatedly trashing Trump and his campaign to bury them before the voters are counted:
Chris Christie goes on ABC's 'Good Morning America' to downplay Donald Trump's election chances, arguing his unfavorables are too high, campaign officials have felt like puking b/c Trump "may have lost it" with the MSG rally, and dismisses GOP early vote gains pic.twitter.com/0EDBuFenVC
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 5, 2024
Chris Christie tells ABC's 'Good Morning America' he'd put money on Kamala Harris winning the election, arguing Trump's not going accept the results when he loses pic.twitter.com/HeGQ6DqWFe
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 5, 2024
With commercials and local news breaks, the first hour and 18 minutes were almost exclusively 2024, including stories at the top of the second hour on both the Harris and Trump camps. Instead of bringing back Bruce and Scott, the show had weekend co-host Eva Pilgrim spin for Harris:
More last-minute election interference for Kamala Harris on ABC’s ‘Good Morning America.’ This time, weekend co-host Eva Pilgrim, arguing she has on her side a message of “[u]nification, joy, and the future”:
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 5, 2024
“Kamala Harris is waking up in D.C. after what's been an all-out… pic.twitter.com/7geECubkUy
As for Trump, that fell to weekend co-host and Saturday World News Tonight anchor Whit Johnson:
ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ weekend co-host Whit Johnson denounces Trump’s “very dark picture” in is final rallies, adding there’s “signs of anxiety” within Team Trump to imply he will lose:
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 5, 2024
“Overnight in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Trump delivered his closing message in what is… pic.twitter.com/yj2UAcgCcs
To see the relevant ABC transcript from November 5, click here.
