On Thursday, the “Big Three” networks of ABC, CBS, and NBC scrambled to use their morning news shows to try and contain the damage caused by President Biden’s Tuesday night comments referring to Trump supporters as garbage, insisting he only “appear[ed]” or “seemed to disparage” them with the “gaffe.”
They also tried to make fetch happen by lamenting Trump’s team has “capitaliz[ed]” on this to “slow down” Harris’s “momentum” “[e]ven though President Biden has clarified what he meant.”
In a tease, NBC’s Today co-host Hoda Kotb started with the key drinking game word for conservatives whenever a liberal gets in trouble: “Trump attempting to seize the moment.”
Co-host Savannah Guthrie briefly invoked the campaign before the lead-off report on the weather: “Trump, trying to capitalize off of President Biden’s…
