The figurehead atop the Regime may have changed but ABC News persists nonetheless as the most servile of all Regime Media Outlets, albeit now at the service of Kamala Harris. And the content is as embarrassing as ever.
Watch as Rachel Scott crams just about all the narratives into this minute and sixteen-second sample:
ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT
7/29/24
6:32 PM
RACHEL SCOTT: One full week into her campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris surging in the polls, pulling in more than $200 million since entering the race. And tonight, Harris seizing on an issue she hopes will help define the choice in November — abortion. Speaking out against Iowa’s six-week abortion ban, set to go into effect today. Placing the blame squarely on Donald Trump, who appointed three of the Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe versus Wade.
KAMALA HARRIS: This ban is going to take effect before many women even know they’re pregnant. And what this means is that 1 in 3 women of reproductive age in America lives in a state with a Trump abortion ban.
SCOTT: The Harris campaign also jumping on Trump’s controversial comments to a Christian audience, where he suggested if they vote this time, they won’t have to vote again.
DONALD TRUMP: Christians, get out and vote, just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years. You know what? It’ll be fixed. It’ll be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. I love you Christians. I’m a Christian, I love you. Get out. You got to get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good. You’re not going to have to vote.
SCOTT: The Harris campaign calling this further proof “…democracy is under assault.”
This virtual campaign ad could’ve been the whole report, and that would’ve been enough to satisfy Team Harris that ABC is on board and the apples are getting polished, chop chop. Mind you, this is after anchor David Muir’s introduction, which went through all the points that Rachel Scott was about to cover. If, as they say, “repetition is the mother of all learning”, then it is clear that ABC wants their viewers to learn the Democrat talking points of the day, rather than any substantive information on the day’s events.
You have it all right there in this report. MOMENTUM! TWO HUNDRED MILLION! ABORTION! There’s the attempted smear of Donald Trump, implying he promised dictatorship to attendants of his recent speech at a Florida event, including a Harris campaign statement wrapping up the smear. No attempt to gain reaction or clarification from Team Trump. Just another “threat to Democracy™” smear two weeks removed from an assassination attempt. Has the temperature been lowered to everyone’s satisfaction?
The report then makes sure to push the “weird” narrative, repeating the word FOUR times, and closed out with some vice presidential speculation.
Was this report embarrassing and disgustingly servile? Absolutely. For ABC, though, it was a return to business as usual.
Click “expand” to view the full transcript of the aforementioned report as aired on ABC World News Tonight on Monday, July 29th, 2024:
DAVID MUIR: Good evening and we begin tonight with the race for president, just 99 days until the election. Vice President Kamala Harris with momentum tonight, raising more than $200 million in donations just one week into her campaign. And the national polls between Harris and Donald Trump tightening tonight. So are some of the polls in the key battleground states. And tonight, Donald Trump under new scrutiny after saying to a group of supporters, “Christians, get out and vote. Just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what, it will be fixed.” Immediate questions about what he meant by that. And tonight, Vice President Kamala Harris taking aim at Iowa’s new six-week abortion ban, blaming Donald Trump and his choices for the Supreme Court, who overturned Roe. ABC’s Rachel Scott leading us off tonight.
RACHEL SCOTT: One full week into her campaign, Vice President Kamala Harris surging in the polls, pulling in more than $200 million since entering the race. And tonight, Harris seizing on an issue she hopes will help define the choice in November — abortion. Speaking out against Iowa’s six-week abortion ban, set to go into effect today. Placing the blame squarely on Donald Trump, who appointed three of the Supreme Court justices who overturned Roe versus Wade.
KAMALA HARRIS: This ban is going to take effect before many women even know they’re pregnant. And what this means is that 1 in 3 women of reproductive age in America lives in a state with a Trump abortion ban.
SCOTT: The Harris campaign also jumping on Trump’s controversial comments to a Christian audience, where he suggested if they vote this time, they won’t have to vote again.
DONALD TRUMP: Christians, get out and vote, just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years. You know what? It’ll be fixed. It’ll be fine. You won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. I love you Christians. I’m a Christian, I love you. Get out. You got to get out and vote. In four years, you don’t have to vote again. We’ll have it fixed so good. You’re not going to have to vote.
SCOTT: The Harris campaign calling this further proof “…democracy is under assault.” Trump, who was counting on a battle with President Biden, now trying to redefine Harris, even as voters warm to her. Tonight, the new ABC News/Ipsos poll shows in just one week, her favorability rating jumped eight points from 35% to 43%.
TRUMP: We have a new victim now, Kamala. We have a new victim. We have a brand new victim. And honestly, she’s a radical left lunatic.
SCOTT: Harris and her team now honing a new one-word message, calling Trump out as “weird.”
HARRIS: You may have noticed Donald Trump has been resorting to some wild lies about my record. And some of what he and his running mate are saying, it’s just plain weird.
SCOTT: Democrats seizing on the backlash triggered by Trump’s running mate, Senator JD Vance and his 2021 comments about women who don’t have children.
JD VANCE: We are effectively run in this country via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable, too.
SCOTT: Now, Vance playing cleanup.
VANCE: Obviously, it was a sarcastic comment. I’ve got nothing against cats.
SCOTT: But not backing down.
VANCE: It’s the fact that the Democratic Party has become explicitly anti-family in some of their policies.
SCOTT: Democrats, like Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, sensing an opening, and there’s that word again.
TIM WALZ: These guys are just weird. That’s really — they are. But we’re not afraid of weird people. We — we’re a little bit creeped out, but we’re not afraid.
MUIR: So let’s bring in Rachel Scott tonight from Washington. Rachel, Vice President Harris, we know, heading to Georgia tomorrow. The latest presidential polls show the race there tightening, as well, in this race- now that we’re dealing with a race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. This as her campaign continues to vet possible running mates. Everyone is watching this very closely. We know just a short time ago here, one leading contender, Pennsylvania’s popular Governor Josh Shapiro, was out campaigning for Vice President Harris, saying she’s ready, and he brought up the debate. Let’s listen.
JOSH SHAPIRO: She’s not only ready, she’s damn ready. And you know who else knows she’s ready? Donald Trump knows she’s ready. And, you know — you know how I know this? Because he’s afraid to debate her now. Do you see that?
MUIR: Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer right there by his side on that stage, also campaigning for the vice president. And Rachel, Vice President Harris expected to pick her running mate by August 7th. That’s just a little more than a week from now.
SCOTT: Yes, David. Vice President Kamala Harris has to make this decision, and she has to make it quickly. We are told that the vetting process is now fully underway. Sources say that Harris is considering roughly a dozen Democrats for the job, but among the leading contenders is Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear, as well Arizona Senator Mark Kelly. Someone who is not going for this position, Gretchen Whitmer. The governor of Michigan says she plans to finish out her term as governor in that state, David.
MUIR: All right, Rachel Scott leading us off here tonight Rachel, thank you.
