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NYT Lauds Michelle O Rant on Double Standards in Treatment of Kamala Harris

New York Times reporter Rebecca Davis O’Brien made Wednesday’s edition with a poor-Kamala Harris “news” story, “Michelle Obama Decries a ‘Double Standard’ in Treatment of Trump and Harris.”

It’s an echo of a recent front-page Times story blaming sexism for Harris’s failure to have the 30-point lead over Donald Trump that she’s apparently entitled to. It’s another sweaty attempt by the Times to haul Harris over the finish line on Election Day.

For three months, as Vice President Kamala Harris has pressed her case for the White House, some voters have insisted they just don’t know enough about her. Pundits have grumbled that she is light on specifics; journalists have lamented that she wasn’t doing more interviews, or answering tougher questions, or answering easy questions more crisply. Her opponents have cast her as an “empty…

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