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Trump Says ABC’s License Should Be Yanked over Debate Moderators’ Performance

September 11, 2024September 11, 2024 Daily Caller News Foundation

Republican nominee Donald Trump said on Wednesday that ABC’s license should be revoked over their alleged bias toward Vice President Kamala Harris at the presidential debate.

Trump told the co-hosts of “Fox & Friends” that ABC moderators David Muir and Linsey Davis were “dishonest” for not correcting Harris’s false statements about the Charlottesville riot in 2017, his support for in vitro fertilization (IVF) and The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025. The former president said the ABC moderators unfairly fact-checked him while allowing Harris to state false and misleading claims.

Commentary: Media’s Lies About Biden’s ‘Mental Fitness’ Finally Caught Up to Them

June 30, 2024 Minnesota Sun Staff

For three and a half years, Joe Biden’s handlers have hidden him from public view and kept him locked deep inside the confines of the White House or at Rehoboth Beach—far away from “we the people.”

For three and a half years, Biden has barely averaged more than a 30-hour work week and has almost never said anything without the assistance of a teleprompter or a notecard. When he does speak, he gives terse remarks that rarely last more than 15 minutes and are almost never in prime time, meaning his audience is negligible.

Trump’s Debate with Biden on CNN May Backfire, Ohio’s Zawistowski Warns

May 20, 2024 Kaitlin Housler

Tom Zawistowski, president of the We the People Convention, believes former President Donald Trump made a mistake in agreeing to a CNN debate against President Joe Biden.

ABC, NBC and CBS Criticized GOP Governors 13 Times More than Biden over Border Crisis, Study Shows

October 26, 2022October 25, 2022 Just the News

ABC, NBC and CBS evening newscasts criticized Republican governors over the migrant crisis 13 times more than President Joe Biden in August and September, according to a study released Tuesday.

At the same time, the news giants dedicated fewer than 12 minutes a month on average to covering the southern border crisis in their evening broadcasts in fiscal 2022 as record numbers of migrants came into the United States, the study from the nonprofit Media Research Center found.

Disney’s ‘Dancing with the Stars’ Will Feature Drag-Queen Debut

September 22, 2022September 21, 2022 Peter D'Abrosca

Disney owned ABC has cast its first drag queen in its hit show Dancing With The Stars.

The drag queen, called Shangela, is known from the show RuPaul’s Drag Race.

Networks See Dip in Ratings During Primetime January 6 Committee Hearing Broadcast

June 11, 2022June 10, 2022 Peter D'Abrosca

According to reports citing Nielsen ratings, which keeps track of television viewership, primetime viewership of the first January 6 Committee hearing totaled more than 19 million across all networks.

Nielsen said that ABC’s coverage totaled 4.8 million viewers, the highest of any network, while NBC’s coverage has 3.5 million viewers and CBS’s coverage had 3.3 million viewers.

Biden Helped Evacuate the French Embassy While Leaving American Citizens to the Mercy of the Taliban

August 22, 2021August 21, 2021 Minnesota Sun Staff

President Joe Biden boasted during a press conference Friday that his administration supported the evacuation of the French embassy in Kabul while at the same time American citizens are being told the U.S. government cannot escort them to the airport.

The U.S. Embassy in Kabul informed American citizens on Thursday that the Biden administration “cannot ensure safe passage to the airport.” The message came one day after Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said the U.S. military lacks the capability to escort Americans trapped behind enemy lines to the airport.

However, the Biden administration did have the capability to provide support to a convoy of hundreds of French people from their embassy to the airport, the president said Friday.

Television Viewership Down for Democrats’ Unconventional Convention

August 19, 2020August 18, 2020 The Associated Press

Preliminary estimates show that viewership for the first night of the Democrats’ virtual convention was down compared with the opening of Hillary Clinton’s nominating party four years ago.

An estimated 18.7 million people watched coverage between 10 and 11 p.m. on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News Channel and MSNBC, the Nielsen company said. Four years ago, opening night drew just under 26 million viewers.

Trump Fed Pick Stephen Moore Cites Smear Campaign, Won’t Withdraw

April 29, 2019April 28, 2019 Minnesota Sun Staff

U.S. President Donald Trump’s pick to fill a vacant seat at the Federal Reserve said on Sunday a smear campaign was being waged against him, after past writings and comments about women sparked renewed criticism by Democratic lawmakers. Stephen Moore, during an interview on ABC’s This Week, said there…

Amy Klobuchar Responds to Presidential Rumors

November 27, 2018November 27, 2018 Anthony Gockowski

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) finally addressed rumors that she may seek the Democratic Party’s nomination in the 2020 presidential election after garnering national attention during Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination process. Analysts have been eyeing Klobuchar as a potential candidate ever since her October grilling of Kavanaugh, whom she asked in…

RNC Co-Chair Blasts ‘Lame-Duck Governor’ of Ohio John Kasich

August 18, 2018August 17, 2018 Anthony Gockowski

Republican National Committee (RNC) Co-Chair Bob Paduchik recently blasted Ohio Gov. John Kasich for his inability to move on from his defeat in the 2016 presidential election. Kasich recently gave a controversial interview with “ABC’s This Week” when he claimed that congressional candidate Troy Balderson did not invite President Trump…