Kamala Harris, apart from her groundbreaking status as a Black female candidate, is a wondrously brilliant protector of individual rights and grower of the economy, right?
And Tim Walz is just a country boy who grew up in rural America and has basic home-grown values, right?
No wonder they are have received a boost in polling data.
Or is it something else? Like, maybe, media bias to the nth degree?
Before answering, I suggest you consider the following study detailed in Rich Noyes’ article for newsbusters.org:
Since Joe Biden exited the 2024 presidential race four weeks ago, the liberal networks have delivered an unprecedented boost of positive publicity to his successor in the race, Vice President Kamala Harris. Not only has Harris received 66% more airtime than former President Donald Trump, but the spin of Harris’s coverage has been more positive (84%) than any other major party nominee, even as Trump’s coverage has been nearly entirely hostile (89% negative).
As always, our calculation of spin omits so-called “horse race” assessments (see methodology statement below), but a separate count shows those statements have also favored Harris by a whopping margin (94% positive, vs. just 43% positive for Trump). At the same time, the network coverage has virtually eliminated any discussion of the strident left-wing positions Harris took as Senator or during her 2020 presidential campaign. And while Republican Vice Presidential candidate J.D. Vance and his Democratic counterpart, Tim Walz, have received nearly equal amounts of airtime, the networks have celebrated Walz (62% positive press) and punished Vance (92% negative).
Hmmmmmm.
Would it be fair to say that maybe, just maybe, most media’s unrelenting bias in favor of Harris/Walz and against Trump/Vance has a little something to do with that boost in the polling?
Would it be fair to consider the fact that they provide readers/viewers virtually no indication of how far left Harris is? That the year before Harris ran for Vice President she was assessed as the single furthest left Senator in the country.
Would it be fair to consider the fact that they provide readers/viewers virtually no mention of Tim Walz’s decades-long love affair with communist China (30 visits – 30 visits – to China, including his honeymoon!!). Or his atrocious performance during the “George FLoyd riots” in Minneapolis, which left the city’s downtown in a shambles?
Nope, these two are just slices of down-home Americana.
So, taking all this into account, do you think media’s juxtaposition of Trump/Vance as disastrous and Harris/Walz as a wonderful “just folks” duo, instead of…
…Harris being a hard leftist Presidential candidate terrified of answering questions at a press conference and…
…Walz acting like an out-take from “The Manchurian Candidate”…
has anything to do with this?
Talk about no-brainers.
But, that is the reality of what passes for our mainstream media today.
I urge you to remember this when you read/view their “neutral coverage”
