Tonight’s the Night! ABC Gets Called Out for Sneaky Pre-Debate Poll Trick: ‘Trying to Set Up a Particular Narrative’
It would almost be impressive if the naked brazenness of it all wasn’t so abhorrent.
Believe it or not, the establishment media is shilling for the Democratic presidential nominee — Vice President Kamala Harris — going into Tuesday’s highly-anticipated presidential debate against former President Donald Trump.
Now, this is actually expected behavior from Democratic apparatchiks, but this particular instance has two extra problems:
The establishment media outfit in question is hosting said debate.
Said media network hasn’t exactly been hesitant to let their anti-Trump biases show (more on this later).
ABC News is set to host the ballyhooed debate between Harris and Trump on Tuesday, and wouldn’t you know it? ABC is out here peddling some wildly out-of-context “good news” about Harris.
After calling the polling between Harris and Trump “virtually identical,” the article boastfully claims that “closer assessment shows movement to Harris in some groups when comparing all adults with likely voters — notably, those younger than 40, younger women in particular and black people.”
Oh, boy. Here we go.
“This analysis, produced for ABC News by Langer Research Associates, finds that support for Harris goes from 54 percent of all adults younger than 40 to 64 percent of those identified as likely voters,” ABC claimed. “Trump’s support, meanwhile, drops from 42 percent of adults in this age group to 33 percent of those likely to vote.”
Curiously absent from Monday’s article, ABC failed to mention anything important about polling, like sample size, margin of error and dates.
No, that methodology was buried in a completely separate article from Sept. 1 that effectively made assertions identical to the Monday article.
Unsurprisingly, ABC News was called out for this duplicity on social media.
