Joe Biden’s polling is cratering. The three latest surveys out have his approval rating at 40, 42 and 40. Yet, you wouldn’t know that if you watched the network morning and evening newscasts in December. The Biden protection racket was in full force as ABC, CBS and NBC allowed a combined 75 seconds on the Democratic President’s tanking numbers.
During December, NBC’s Today Nightly News avoided all talk of the Democrat’s slumping polls. ABC News Good Morning America’s George Stephanopoulos mentioned the bad news for just nine seconds.
ABC journalists were Not paying attention to yourselfBecause this survey was partially done by ABC (alongside Ipsos). CBS did the best, a still pathetic 66 seconds.
Even though the month of December saw a Covid surge and the highest inflation since 1982, here’s the sum total of ABC’s weekday morning and evening coverage for the month. The 13th of December was a busy day for ABC. GMA co-host Stephanopoulos quickly announced: “In a poll by ABC News/IPSOS, more than two thirds disapprove President Biden’s inflation handling. A solid majority, 57 percent, disapprove of the economy in general.”
You can see Stephanopoulos racing through numbers in the video clip below.
Though NBC’s morning and evening newscasts skipped the bad polling for Biden, that wasn’t true for the Sunday chat show. Meet the PressChuck Todd, host of the show, tried to give Biden a positive spin. He noted on December 5, 2021 that college students still love Biden.
We can also show that even under-30 voters have a higher approval rating for President Biden. You have a net favorable rating of the president if you’re a college graduate or a student in college. Although this net rating of 54-44 doesn’t seem like a high number for the president it is a positive one among college graduates. If you do not have a college diploma, then you are disapproving of the president at 57 percent. It is also true for older sections of the electorate.
The 11th of December 2021 CBS Mornings Saturday, the journalists managed to not mention bad polling for Biden while talking about crippling inflation: “A new Labor Department report says inflation rose by almost seven percent in the last year, the highest one-year increase in 39 years. Biden states that inflation is at its peak, and the prices of food should start to fall faster than previously thought. But Mr. Biden acknowledged Americans are feeling the pinch in their wallets.”
The sum total of CBS’s mentions of bad polling news came on December 12. Softball interview CBS Sunday Mornings, Rita Braver asked First Lady Jill Biden: “You’ve seen the President’s poll numbers drop. Do you find that troubling?”
She then followed-up with a gentle question about polling on the President’s mental fitness:
RITA BRAVER: And one more question on that, on the polls because there’s been some recent polls that show that quite a few Americans have some questions about the President`s current mental fitness as somebody who spends — I can see you shaking your head.
JILL BIDEN: Yes.
BRAVER: So, what’s your response to that?
BIDEN: I think that’s ridiculous.
Five seconds more on December 12. Evening NewsAll 66 seconds are available from CBS during December.
In October, I wrote a study for NewsBusters explaining that, during the same time period in 2017, the networks covered Biden’s bad polling by almost two-to-one more than Donald Trump’s low numbers. Biden’s election year 2022 may be more difficult because of inflation, Covid, and other ongoing disasters in the administration. ABC, CBS, NBC and NBC continue to fight for the incumbent Democrat. But the evidence says their efforts aren’t working.
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