The Harris campaign has been floating atop a celebratory media bubble for two weeks, and Laura Barron-Lopez of the PBS News Hour was not about to pop it.
On Monday’s edition she was basically getting out the vote for a specific Democratic demographic, black women in Georgia, interviewing several of them, each more excited about Harris than the next. After all, “95 percent of Black women in the state backed Joe Biden and will be critical to any path to victory here for Harris.”
She’d previously heard from the same group last week when Harris was campaigning in Atlanta, but on Monday PBS aired an extended clip of that conversation, and even follow-up interviews to address Trump’s “offensive” comments to the National Association of Black Journalists.
Barron-Lopez gushed, “It’s an excitement these women haven’t felt since President Obama’s 2008 campaign.”
Barron-Lopez briefly…
