Matthew Dowd

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‘No Evidence!’ ABC Excitedly Hammers Trump for Rice Accusation
April 6th, 2017 10:44 AM
Thursday morning on Good Morning America, the ABC News team were eager to bash Trump for his comment to the New York Times, stating he “thought” Susan Rice committed a crime in requesting the classified identities of Trump associates, while she was Obama’s National Security Advisor. Cecilia Vega centered her report on Trump’s claim instead of Rice’s actions, before George Stephanopoulos brought…

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Dowd: Trump Needs to 'Channel' Michael Jackson and ‘Make a Change'
March 27th, 2017 10:17 AM
Monday on Good Morning America, ABC analyst Matthew Dowd used yet another wacky analogy to advise the president on how he should behave. After gleefully hyping Trump’s “stunning” and “devastating” defeat on repealing Obamacare, the panel wondered how Trump was going to be able to deliver on any of his other campaign promises. Dowd lectured that the onus was on Trump to “fundamentally change” who…

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Nets Caught Flat-Footed by ‘Profoundly Different' Trump Using 'Hope'
March 1st, 2017 1:30 AM
Cue the sad trombone, folks. Despite the best efforts by Stephen Colbert, Bill Maher, Rachel Maddow, and other lefties, the “big three” of ABC, CBS, and NBC offered positive reviews of President Trump’s “profoundly different” Tuesday night speech to a Joint Session of Congress that “rested on words, including rebirth, hope, opportunity, and common good.”

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GMA Gushes Over Kimmel, Hollywood 'Taking On' Trump at Oscars
February 27th, 2017 10:28 AM
The Monday morning following the Oscars on ABC was filled with excited reports on the biggest Hollywood awards show of the year. But over on ABC’s Good Morning America, the news team seemed just as excited about the anti-Trump tone of the night.

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ABC: Trump Looked ‘Smaller’ & ‘More Insecure’ at ‘Bizarre’ Presser
February 16th, 2017 4:35 PM
During ABC News special report coverage following President Trump’s press conference on Thursday, anchor George Stephanopoulos seemed to be in a state of shock over the commander-in-chief’s hostility to the liberal media: “What a remarkable window into the state of mind of the President of the United States right there....lashed out at the press, made it very clear he thinks the press is…

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ABC: Trump Ignoring Us at Presser Was 'Assault on First Amendment'
February 16th, 2017 10:23 AM
Thursday on Good Morning America, ABC journalists bitterly complained about Wednesday’s press conference with Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, where President Trump only called on Israeli outlets and conservative outlets. Despite getting hard-hitting and relevant questions, ABC’s Senior White House Correspondent Cecilia Vega whined that these weren’t “mainstream” outlets and that they…

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Angry ABC in ‘Open Hostility’ at Trump for ‘Shutting Down’ Free Speech
February 15th, 2017 1:52 PM
The journalists at ABC on Wednesday erupted in “open hostility” to Donald Trump, accusing the President of “shutting down part of the First Amendment” by not calling on network reporters at a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Jon Karl, Cecilia Vega and Matt Dowd repeatedly whined about the “conservative” questioners who did ask questions, lamenting that the…

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ABC: Founders Would Support Federal Judge's 'Check' on Trump Over Ban
February 6th, 2017 10:28 AM
On Monday’s Good Morning America, ABC analyst Matthew Dowd blasted Donald Trump for criticizing the federal judge who blocked his executive immigration order. Playing off of the New England Patriots’ win last night, Dowd said the true “patriots” were the ones standing up to President Trump.

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GMA's Dowd: Country Today 'Where We Were In 1861'
January 20th, 2017 8:44 AM
On the morning of Barack Obama’s first inauguration in 2009, ABC’s Good Morning America team called it, “A new dawn...fueled by hope and the shared dreams of a renewed America.” But on the morning of Donald Trump’s inauguration, ABC didn’t have the same rosy outlook. Instead of the utopia they predicted would happen under Obama, today ABC claimed the country was going back to the Civil War era.

ABC's Matthew Dowd Thinking About Running Against Ted Cruz For Senate
January 6th, 2017 12:49 PM
It seems like the line between journalists and politicians is always growing finer. According to the Texas Tribune, ABC News’ Chief Political Analyst Matthew Dowd is ”thinking” about running for Texas Senate as an Independent challenger to Ted Cruz. He told the Tribune that he has been approached by both Republicans and Democrats to run.

Matthew Dowd Frets Over 'Cyberwar' With Russia That 'Hacked Election'
December 30th, 2016 12:34 PM
While journalists obsess over Russia’s involvement in the leaked DNC and John Podesta e-mails, most have been demanding answers exclusively from Donald Trump and his team, instead of the current administration. Underneath it all is the obvious objective to question the legitimacy of Trump’s election win, though the media continually skirt around that admission. On Twitter Thursday and on Good…

Dowd's Christmas Explanation: Mary, Joseph Were 'Immigrants, Refugees'
December 25th, 2016 10:53 PM
The latest media person to fail to think and count to ten before hitting the "Tweet" button is Matthew Dowd. Once a Democrat, Dowd came over to the Republican Party in 1999, and was George W. Bush's chief campaign strategist during the 2004 campaign. He became an independent in 2008 and is currently a Chief Political Analyst at ABC News. He also claims to be Catholic, but clearly has a…

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ABC Wonders: Is Trump's Presidency 'Delegitimized' Already?
December 13th, 2016 10:10 AM
Looks like openly left-leaning outlets like Slate aren’t the only ones in the media questioning if Trump’s election was legitimate. Tuesday on Good Morning America, anchor George Stephanopoulos and analyst Matthew Dowd raised the same question during a discussion on Rex Tillerson, Russia and the DNC hacking.

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Nets: Trump ‘Under Fire’ for ‘Pirate Yacht’ of ‘Wealthiest Cabinet'
December 1st, 2016 12:20 PM
On Thursday, all three network morning shows recited the same liberal, class-warfare attack lines in response to President-elect Donald Trump nominating billionaire Wilbur Ross for Commerce Secretary and Wall Street executive Steve Mnuchin for Treasury Secretary, fretting that the picks would create the “wealthiest cabinet in history.”