PBS News Hour reporter Laura Barron-Lopez helped get out the vote for Democrats in North Carolina in a report about the gender divide from the campaign trail Friday evening. Barron-Lopez, the News Hour’s most partisan reporter, began with the young chairman of the state’s Democratic Party.
2008 was the last time a Democratic presidential candidate won the state.
Barron-Lopez at least gave the Republicans roughly equal time, talking to the chair of the North Carolina Federation of Young Republicans, Emily Stack, and Zander Pitrus, president of the Duke College Republicans, who said that “free speech is nearly nonexistent” at Duke (Though Barron-Lopez made sure to voice a rebuttal statement from Duke University supporting: “a diversity of perspectives on campus.”
After jabbing at the Republican gender gap among women at a College Republican gathering (“Also apparent at the…
