John,
On Wednesday, Kamala Harris joined Anderson Cooper for a CNN town hall with undecided voters. Both Trump and Harris were invited to participate, but while Harris showed up, Trump declined—just as he has with every debate after the first.
You’d think CNN might give Harris credit for taking questions, especially after the media criticized her campaign early on for fewer appearances.
Instead, CNN’s Dana Bash gave this alarming take:
“Some people have asked: Is she being held to a different standard? Maybe. But that’s maybe the world that she’s living in.”
The double standard runs deep.
When President Biden stumbled in a debate, media across The New York Times, The Washington Post, and CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News called for him to step aside, raising questions about age and mental fitness.
And when he passed the torch, scrutiny quickly shifted to Harris, echoing right-wing talking points critiquing her for fewer media appearances or supposed policy gaps.
Contrast this with coverage of Trump, who ranted about immigrants eating pets in a disastrous debate, recently canceled events due to “exhaustion,” paused mid-rally to dance to music for over 40 minutes, and bizarrely discussed the size of Arnold Palmer’s anatomy.
Yet, the same media that grills Harris and Biden is strangely silent on Trump’s behavior, instead normalizing his authoritarian candidacy.
The result? Harris faces relentless scrutiny while Trump’s antics go unchecked—a clear example of pro-Trump media bias that we urgently need to counterbalance.
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