ABC, NBC Gloss Over Harris' Radical Price Control Plan, CBS Actually Criticizes

Posted • August 18, 2024: The Saturday morning editions of the network morning shows took different approaches to Vice President Kamala Harris’s radical proposal to install price controls on food. ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s Today barely touched it, portraying it as if it were just another proposal, while CBS Saturday Morning was more willing to say the proposal was more politics than actual economics. ABC was the worst offender, as White House correspondent Mary Bruce put a positive spin on the proposal during the top-of-the-show rundown, “Vice President Kamala Harris details her vision ahead of the Democratic Convention. The policies aimed at protecting your pocketbook. Donald Trump, taking aim.”

Why would Trump want to take aim at the idea of protecting voters’ pocketbooks? To find out, viewers had to wait a few minutes for a report from Jay O’Brien, who played a clip of Harris urging people to “compare my plan with what Donald Trump intends to do. He plans to give billionaires massive tax cuts year after year. You know, I think, if you want to know who someone cares about, look who they fight for.” (…)

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