The Democratic Get together seems to be a fairly humorous identify, as a result of they’re actually this 12 months in preserving everybody else off the poll. Third-party “spoilers” like RFK Jr. have to be handled by the media as a “risk” to democracy, since democracy and the Democrats are handled as synonymous.
Kennedy’s announcement of working mate Nicole Shanahan — a lawyer and ex-wife of Google founder Sergey Brin — drew solely temporary discover on Tuesday night time. PBS NewsHour supplied 45 seconds, CBS 30 seconds, and NBC? Simply eight seconds. Alex Christy discovered Trump’s 2020 major opponents drew 115 TV interviews on the liberal networks, however Biden’s 2024 major opponents drew solely 25. Whereas he ran as a Democrat, RFK Jr. had two.
Over on ABC’s The View, Nick Fondacaro reported Pleasure Behar turned unglued as she ranted about how “Anyone has to ask him: why are you doing this! Why do you wish to destroy the election and hand it to Trump if attainable?!” She additionally claimed he was doing a disservice to the household identify, saying: “He is a Kennedy. His forefathers are rolling over of their graves with this. His family is telling him to get out. We have already got one clown within the race. Do we’d like two of them?”
Moderator Whoopi Goldberg actually purchased into the conspiracy theories, claiming Kennedy’s attempting to “purchase the election.” This not less than got here earlier than Biden raised $25 million plus in a single night time subsequent to Barack Obama, Invoice Clinton, and Stephen Colbert.
Then we revisit the scene of the Ronna McDaniel debacle, and the way “mainstream” media reporters at the moment are attempting to say hiring partisan pundits simply would not make sense any extra. Which could sound like “do not substitute Ronna with a special Republican.”
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