ABC Frets Latinos Chose ‘Their Truth’ About Groceries Over Trump’s ‘Mistruths’

Curtis Houck
November 6th, 2024 1:29 AM

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While not as voluminous and open in their meltdowns early Tuesday night as the election results grew grim for liberals, ABC News was nonetheless searching for excuses, including claims that Latinos moving toward Trump wasn’t definitive and, if they had (they did), it was their unfortunate choice to fall victim to “exaggeration” and “mistruths” from Donald Trump to instead side with “their truth” in the form of high grocery and gas bills.

ABC’s chief global affairs anchor and This Week co-host Martha Raddatz was despondent in the 10:00 p.m. Eastern hour, lamenting her travels through the Sun Belt revealed Trump’s focus on the economy resonating with Hispanics and that they saw past his “exaggeration,” “mistruths,” and comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s comment at a Trump rally about Puerto Rico being “garbage” to instead chose “their truth.”

This, she explained, was their personal economic situations:

Nearly 90 minutes earlier, former Univision anchor Maria Elena Salinas weighed in, refusing to believe that Puerto Ricans still voted for Trump:

When ABC discussed the constitutional amendment in Florida expanding abortion access falling short, their turned to progressive legal analyst Kate Shaw — who’s the wife of MSNBC host Christ Hayes — to offer some words of solace (click “expand”):

SHAW: Well, of course it's right that under Florida's rules this amendment failed. But you look at the numbers, 57 percent of Floridians actually did vote to protect abortion under the state's constitution, so it just has a higher threshold than other states. So, of course, it's right this amendment failed. But I also think the data tells us that even a lot of voters presumably who voted for Donald Trump also voted to protect abortion. I think the question is Kamala Harris has tried to make the case that even though abortion is only on the ballot in ten states this cycle, it's really on the ballot everywhere because it matters so much who the president is, what the law surrounding abortion will be. The question is how that message resonates if at all in other states.

DAVID MUIR: And in particular in Florida, Kate, to — to vote it down and to vote for Donald Trump when you look out west to Nevada and Arizona where it's also on the ballot, it's going to get into this whole notion of sort of, you know, a split ticket, whether or not you vote for the amendment but then you don't vote for Kamala Harris, you don't tie the two together.

SHAW: Potentially. So, I think we’re going to see throughout the night how much voters are separating these issues out. But, of course, in these states there are will her thresholds for actually voting to protect abortion and maybe you will see if Florida voters thought, well, abortion will be protected in our state, we can still vote for Donald Trump because, you know, we'll have protections here for voting for this amendment, that may or may not be true depending on what — if Trump is elected president, what happens at the federal level with respect to abortion. But there may be complex calculuses going on about kind of what state law will mean with respect to abortion and what the federal government could do with respect to abortion.

MUIR: Absolutely. We're going to continue to track it, particularly in those western swing states. 

In a sidenote, there was this interlude just after 8:30 p.m. Eastern with Raddatz and ABC News Live host Linsey Davis touting white women:

The evolution of Mary Bruce — Disney’s in-house North Korean news lady for the Harris campaign — was something to watch. First, here she was early in the night:

Then, there was this from 7:41 p.m. Eastern:

Bruce slowly made the pivot 12 minutes later, suggesting Trump not campaigning with Nikki Haley and the Madison Square Garden rally could sink him:

By 10:34 p.m. Eastern, the nervousness had crept in:

By 11:03 p.m. Eastern, chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl was done with her attempts to keep hope alive:

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