The PBS News Hour led off two nights in a row with campaign trail reports from Laura Barron-Lopez, their most partisan reporter.
Anchor Geoff Bennett set the scene Monday evening, with Donald Trump in North Carolina on a post-hurricane Helene trip and Kamala Harris touring with former Republican congresswoman and famed anti-Trumper Liz Cheney. The story’s online headline did much of the work: “Harris campaigns with Liz Cheney as Trump again deploys dark and anti-immigrant rhetoric.”
Laura Barron-Lopez cooed over and hyped up the bipartisan love-fest.
The reportorial tone changed rather drastically when the focus shifted to Trump in North Carolina touring storm damage.
Barron-Lopez continued the desperate media pile-on around what was evidently an effective campaign stop by Donald Trump, manning a McDonald’s fry-station in Pennsylvania.
After talking about Trump’s odd tangent on…