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PBS Reporter Laura Barron-Lopez’s Partisan Coverage of Harris’s Campaign

The PBS News Hour’s most partisan reporter, Laura Barron-Lopez, displayed her Democratic favoritism during her long Election Night coverage from Kamala Harris’s election night headquarters. But her pro-Harris hype started before Election Day, with happy talk about Harris’s prospects in most of the swing states, none of which panned out for her campaign.

The day before on the PBS News Hour, Barron-Lopez hyped up a shock Iowa poll with unbelievably pro-Harris findings: “Harris even appears to have a slight lead in decidedly red Iowa. The final Des Moines Register-Mediacom poll shows Harris ahead by three points among Iowa voters.” Oops.

She insisted that a “garbage” joke about Puerto Rico, made at Trump’s rally in Madison Square Garden, was “racist” and bound to offend the half-million Puerto Ricans in Pennsylvania and thus turn the state…

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