PBS entered the final weekend earlier than Election Day sustaining the deceitful type wherein it has coated the race for the final two years, becoming a member of the remainder of the press in spreading the identical anti-Trump lie simply 4 days earlier than the vote.
On Friday night’s version, Laura Barron-Lopez lived as much as her place as probably the most partisan reporter on the PBS Information Hour, clipping Donald Trump’s criticism of Liz Cheney, ignoring the clear anti-war context to say he was advocating a firing squad for his fierce Republican critic.
Laura Barron-Lopez: The previous president rallied in Warren, Michigan, this afternoon after stopping at a restaurant in Dearborn, the place he doubled down on feedback he made final night time. In Glendale, Arizona, he sat down with a controversial ally, former FOX Information character Tucker Carlson. On the heart of their dialog, one in all Trump’s most outspoken Republican critics.
[clip] Tucker Carlson, Former FOX Information Anchor: Is it bizarre so that you can see Liz Cheney — that’d be Dick Cheney’s repulsive little daughter — working in opposition to you with Kamala Harris?
Barron-Lopez: Liz Cheney, the previous Wyoming consultant, crossed occasion strains to endorse and marketing campaign for Kamala Harris. Trump talked about Cheney in violent and threatening phrases.
[clip] Donald Trump: The rationale she could not stand me is that she at all times wished to go to struggle with individuals. His daughter is a really dumb particular person, very dumb. She’s a radical struggle hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with 9 barrels taking pictures at her, OK? Let’s examine how she feels about it when the weapons are skilled on her face.
Trump, who made his anti-Iraq Warfare views clear earlier within the discuss with Carlson, went on to say, “You recognize, they’re all struggle hawks after they’re sitting in Washington within the good buildings saying ‘Oh gee nicely, let’s ship 10,000 troops proper into the mouth of the enemy.” However PBS did not run that half or point out it.
Kamala Harris, Vice President and Presidential Candidate: This should be disqualifying.
Barron-Lopez: As we speak, Harris informed reporters Trump’s rhetoric is harmful.
Harris: Consultant Cheney is a real patriot who has proven extraordinary braveness in placing nation above occasion. Trump is more and more, nevertheless, somebody who considers his political opponents the enemy, is completely out for revenge, and is more and more unstable and unhinged.
Barron-Lopez stood with the Democratic candidate and handed on Cheney’s overheated response.
Barron-Lopez: In a submit on X, Cheney gave a cautionary response, writing — quote — “That is how dictators destroy free nations.” Arizona’s prime prosecutor is reportedly investigating whether or not or not the comment crosses right into a dying menace below state regulation. That form of rhetoric from Trump, along with his racist Madison Sq. Backyard rally, has battleground voters who solely lately made up their minds breaking for Harris by double digits. That is in keeping with a Harris marketing campaign official’s accounting of inside information.
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PBS Information Hour
11/1/24
7:03:01 p.m. (ET)
Geoff Bennett: Welcome to the “Information Hour.”
With 4 days to go till Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have dueling rallies deliberate in battleground Wisconsin tonight mere miles away from one another.
Amna Nawaz: However the homestretch isn’t with out bumps within the highway. As we speak, international threats of election interference sprang up in one other swing state of Georgia.
However we start tonight in Michigan with Trump’s newest cease on the marketing campaign path.
Laura Barron-Lopez begins our protection.
Laura Barron-Lopez: Donald Trump rounding the ultimate lap of his third presidential marketing campaign right this moment, sticking together with his anti-immigrant closing message.
Donald Trump, Former President of the US (R) and Present U.S. Presidential Candidate: All these people who illegally come throughout the border with their open-border coverage are taking the African American jobs away.
Laura Barron-Lopez: The previous president rallied in Warren, Michigan, this afternoon after stopping at a restaurant in Dearborn, the place he doubled down on feedback he made final night time.
In Glendale, Arizona, he sat down with a controversial ally, former FOX Information character Tucker Carlson. On the heart of their dialog, one in all Trump’s most outspoken Republican critics.
Tucker Carlson, Former FOX Information Anchor Is it bizarre so that you can see Liz Cheney — that’d be Dick Cheney’s repulsive little daughter — working in opposition to you with Kamala Harris?
Laura Barron-Lopez: Liz Cheney, the previous Wyoming consultant, crossed occasion strains to endorse and marketing campaign for Kamala Harris. Trump talked about Cheney in violent and threatening phrases.
Donald Trump: The rationale she could not stand me is that she at all times wished to go to struggle with individuals. His daughter is a really dumb particular person, very dumb. She’s a radical struggle hawk. Let’s put her with a rifle standing there with 9 barrels taking pictures at her, OK? Let’s examine how she feels about it when the weapons are skilled on her face.
Kamala Harris, Vice President of the US (D) and U.S. Presidential Candidate: This should be disqualifying.
Laura Barron-Lopez: As we speak, Harris informed reporters Trump’s rhetoric is harmful.
Kamala Harris: Consultant Cheney is a real patriot who has proven extraordinary braveness in placing nation above occasion. Trump is more and more, nevertheless, somebody who considers his political opponents the enemy, is completely out for revenge, and is more and more unstable and unhinged.
Laura Barron-Lopez: In a submit on X, Cheney gave a cautionary response, writing — quote — “That is how dictators destroy free nations.”
Arizona’s prime prosecutor is reportedly investigating whether or not or not the comment crosses right into a dying menace below state regulation. That form of rhetoric from Trump, along with his racist Madison Sq. Backyard rally, has battleground voters who solely lately made up their minds breaking for Harris by double digits.
That is in keeping with a Harris marketing campaign official’s accounting of inside information. Harris can be within the Midwest right this moment, making a remaining push with a number of stops in Wisconsin, her first in Janesville.
Kamala Harris: So, we’ve simply 4 days left, 4 days left in some of the consequential elections of our lifetime, and we’ve plenty of work nonetheless to do, however I do know who’s right here. We like exhausting work.
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Laura Barron-Lopez: Meantime, each vice presidential candidates have been in close by Michigan right this moment, Harris’ working mate, Governor Tim Walz, in Detroit.
Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), Vice Presidential Candidate: People, I get it. You are drained. You are harassed. You are prepared for this factor to be over. There’s one antidote to this, and it is the perfect one. Exit and vote for Kamala Harris to be president. That is it.
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), Vice Presidential Candidate: To vote for Kamala Harris is to vote for extra of the identical.
Laura Barron-Lopez: And Trump’s accomplice on the ticket, Senator J.D. Vance, in Portage, earlier than jetting off to North Carolina.
Sen. J.D. Vance: It’s a vote for extra of the identical incompetent and failed management. And I feel the state of Michigan, we’ll vote for a change.
Laura Barron-Lopez: Within the remaining days, Trump’s marketing campaign has steadily ramped up lies about election fraud.
All of it comes as international adversaries are interfering. This video that circulated on X purports to indicate Haitian immigrants illegally voting for Harris in a number of counties in Georgia. U.S. intelligence officers stated right this moment the video was manufactured by Russian affect actors to — quote — “increase unfounded questions in regards to the integrity of the U.S. election and stoke divisions amongst People.”
Georgia’s Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger known as the video of Haitian’s voting — quote — “clearly pretend,” and urged Elon Musk and different social media leaders to take down such disinformation.
On the marketing campaign path, it is full pace forward earlier than the polls shut on Tuesday. Each candidates will finish their nights within the Milwaukee space, the center of the Badger State, the place polls say it is a full toss-up.
For the “PBS Information Hour,” I am Laura Barron-Lopez.
