With the general election underway, the campaigns are off to the races…and so are the networks’ respective political correspondents. And they seem to be all over the place, as their coverage of reaction to remarks made by former President Donald Trump over the future of Social Security.
CBS barely covered the issue, lumping it in as a throwaway item within a broader political roundup by White House correspondent Nancy Cordes:
NANCY CORDES: In the same interview, Trump suggested he is open to cutting Medicare or Social Security to save money. Biden seized on that in New Hampshire.
JOE BIDEN: I’m never going to allow that to happen. I won’t cut Social Security, I won’t cut Medicare.
There is no video of Trump’s remarks, nothing to point to except Cordes’ interpretation of Trump’s remark and a sampling of Biden’s seizing. About 15 seconds…
