Not even Sunday’s close call with a would-be assassin could interrupt the liberal TV networks’ barrage of bad press against Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. A look at the first 72 hours of coverage on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts — Sunday, Monday and Tuesday nights — finds that while the attempted assassination dominated campaign coverage, these networks’ anti-Trump spin was nearly as bad as it could be: 95% negative, vs. just five percent positive. MRC analysts analyzed all 69 minutes of campaign coverage on the evening newscasts from September 15 through September 17. The attempted assassination was by far the dominant story:  48 minutes of airtime, or almost 70% of all campaign news. The networks aired more than 17 minutes of coverage on Sunday night, an additional 22 minutes on Monday and another eight minutes Tuesday evening. Yet even as they covered the shocking new danger to Trump, the networks persisted in bashing the GOP candidate on a range of other issues — as well as his reaction to his own close call. Over the three nights, we tallied 21 evaluative comments about the GOP candidate, 20 of which were negative, which computes to a 95% negative spin score. (For more, see the methodology explanation at the end of this article.) On Sunday, less than four hours after news of the shooting broke, NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt scolded Trump for his rhetoric: “Today’s apparent assassination attempt comes amid increasingly fierce rhetoric on the campaign trail itself. Mr. Trump [and] his running mate JD Vance continued to make baseless claims about Haitian immigrants in Ohio.” CBS Weekend News reporter Skyler Henry similarly linked Trump to the situation in Springfield, running a clip of Trump from the debate — “They’re eating the dogs” — before scolding: “The city has been thrust into the national conversation on immigration with unsubstantiated claims immigrants are eating pets.” Not to be left out, ABC’s Perry Russom on Sunday’s World News Tonight also blasted the Republican: “The baseless claim amplified by President Trump at the ABC News debate.” CBS’s Sunday night newscast also included a taped piece from correspondent Scott MacFarlane, which for no particular reason decided to look at the history of mail-in ballots. He included this gratuitous shot: “It [voting by mail] was the subject of baseless conspiracy theories and false claims of fraud by some critics, including former President Donald Trump and his supporters.” Those negative statements all aired within hours of Sunday’s dangerous security scare. On Monday’s CBS Evening News, anchor Norah O’Donnell decided to blast Trump yet again for the “cats and dogs” meme: “Donald Trump is blaming Democrats for inflaming political rhetoric, but the former President’s own words seem to be increasing the threat of political violence in Springfield Ohio. That’s where a false and ugly accusation against Haitians, thousands of whom are legal permanent residents, is impacting everyday life.” CBS’s Nikole Killion echoed her boss, ruing how “viral unfounded claims about Haitian immigrants stealing and eating pets continue to circulate, amplified by former President Trump and running mate Ohio Senator JD Vance.” She talked to a Haitian restaurant manager in Springfield, Roman Pierre. “He says Trump and Vance should apologize,” Killion relayed. On Tuesday, ABC’s World News Tonight caught up, with former debate moderator David Muir blasting the “false claims that have been spread by Donald Trump,” while correspondent Rachel Scott described Springfield as “a community on edge ever since former President Donald Trump amplified a false conspiracy theory....” NBC on Tuesday night also used Harris’s appearance before the National Association of Black Journalists to repeat criticism of Trump’s appearance back in July. Correspondent Gabe Gutierrez reminded viewers that the group “held a contentious session with former President Trump in July where he falsely questioned the Vice President’s racial identity.” These networks gave relatively little time to the accusation that these attempted shootings might have been influenced by Democratic rhetoric painting Trump as an existential threat. Out of 48 minutes of coverage of the attempted shooting, the three networks spent less than two minutes (1 minute, 53 seconds) on the possibility that Democrats could share the blame. All of the networks treated the charge as a cynical deflection. On NBC Monday night, reporter Garrett Haake rejected Trump’s argument: “Trump has also used incendiary language against Democrats, and authorities have not yet revealed a motive in either incident.” On Tuesday, CBS’s Caitlin Huey-Burns ran a clip of Vance blasting Democratic rhetoric before immediately countering: “Both Vance and Trump have a record of attacking their opponents.” If Sunday’s shooting is a sign that American political discourse has become too negative and too nasty, then the media coverage immediately following the event was its own cause for concern. It appears not even the second near-death experience of the former President is cause for even a brief cease-fire in the ongoing onslaught of negativity against Trump that marks TV’s 2024 campaign coverage. ++++ METHODOLOGY: To determine the spin of news coverage, our analysts tallied all explicitly evaluative statements about each candidate from either reporters, anchors or non-partisan sources such as experts or voters. Evaluations from partisan sources, as well as neutral statements, were not included. As we did in 2016 and 2020, we separated personal evaluations of each candidate from statements about their prospects in the campaign horse race (i.e., standings in the polls, chances to win, etc.). While such comments can have an effect on voters (creating a bandwagon effect for those seen as winning, or demoralizing the supports of those portrayed as losing), they are not “good press” or “bad press” as understood by media scholars as far back as Michael Robinson’s groundbreaking research on the 1980 presidential campaign.

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The language President Donald Trump employed in recent weeks to describe his brush with death on July 13 hinted at an appreciation for forces that secular materialists may dismiss out of hand. In the wake of yet another assassination attempt, Trump doubled down, suggesting that his continued existence despite the efforts of his enemies was not the result of luck but rather the handiwork of God. During an X Spaces conversation Monday evening, Trump recounted what took place at his golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday. At 1:31 p.m., a U.S. Secret Service agent on Trump's detail, who had been walking the perimeter of the course one hole ahead of the president, spotted the barrel of a rifle "poking out of the tree line" and through a chain-link fence, roughly 400 yards away from Trump. "All of a sudden, we heard shots being fired in the air," said Trump. "I guess probably four or five, and it sounded like bullets, but what do I know about that?" 'It was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening.' The USSS agent reportedly opened fire, targeting the barrel of the would-be assassin's gun. The suspect, radical Democratic donor and Ukraine obsessive Ryan Routh, fled the scene without firing a shot. Trump noted that U.S. Secret Service agents whisked him away on a golf cart, even though he "would have loved to sink that last putt." Reflecting upon this and the previous attempt on his life by a Democratic donor who he figures was acting on the "rhetoric of Biden and Harris," Trump said, "There's something going on. I mean, perhaps it's God wanting me to be president to save this country." The day after he was shot in Butler, Pennsylvania, Trump also credited God with saving him. "It was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening. We will FEAR NOT, but instead remain resilient in our Faith and Defiant in the face of Wickedness," he wrote in a post on Truth Social. When speaking to Elon Musk on Aug. 12, Trump suggested that his last-second head turn in July, which meant a grazed ear rather than a bullet to the brain, was miraculous. "The bigger miracle was that I was looking in the exact direction of the shooter," continued Trump. "All because I put down a chart on immigration that showed that the numbers were so great. I love that chart." Trump was referring to a chart he had on the stage illustrating the millions of illegal aliens President Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have failed to prevent from stealing into the homeland over the past three years. "It was amazing that I happened to be turned just at that perfect angle," said Trump. Trump noted that his head turn was all the more unlikely given his sporadic use of the illegal immigration chart at his rallies. "It's very much, I say, an act of God. It's a miracle," said Trump. "And I'm honored by it." In conversation late last month with BlazeTV host Mark Levin, Trump speculated that God is keeping him alive because He "thinks that I'm going to straighten out our country." 'Our God still saves.' Trump is hardly alone in thinking he has enjoyed the ultimate reinforcement. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) noted days after the first assassination attempt, "Trump is truly blessed by the hand of God being able to evade being assassinated." NPR noted that Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) similarly credited the Almighty with filling in the gaps in the Secret Service's protection. "If you didn't believe in miracles before Saturday, you better be believing right now," said Scott. "Thank God Almighty that we live in a country that still believes in the King of kings and the Lord of lords, the Alpha and the Omega. Our God still saves. He still delivers and he still sets free. Because on Saturday, the devil came to Pennsylvania holding a rifle. But an American lion got back up on his feet." Referring to the photograph of a bullet whizzing by Trump's head in Pennsylvania, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy wrote, "That's Divine Providence. One hair's width away from a deathblow to a nation." Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) shared an illustration of the outline of what appears to be Jesus Christ protecting Trump from an incoming bullet, with the caption, "If God is with you, who can be against you?" New York Republican Rep. Brandon Williams tweeted, "God saved our Republic last night." Extra to Trump's appreciation for God, it appears also he is leaning into his fondness for Christ's mother. NBC News' Katherine Doyle confirmed Tuesday that President Trump, headed to Pennsylvania this weekend, will be visiting the National Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa. Earlier this month, he celebrated the birth of the Virgin Mary to the chagrin of radicals, including former foreign agent Ana Navarro of ABC's "The View." Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Democrat Gov. Gavin Newsom snickered as he sat on the stage at a conference this week and signed three bills that will further restrict "deepfake" or "materially deceptive" election content in California, but defiant social media users shared an AI election video scorned by Newsom nonetheless.On Tuesday, Newsom joined Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff onstage at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco. Dreamforce is a tech conference that bills itself as "the largest AI event in the world."'So that's how easy it is to govern.'The event may have promoted AI, but the conversation between Newsom and Benioff seemed to focus on the problems associated with AI. When Newsom mentioned that he had 38 bills on his desk that related to digital concerns, Benioff suggested that Newsom take the opportunity of the Dreamforce conference to sign three such bills about election advertising containing AI material."I just thought, you know, why waste your time with a politician unless they're gonna do something for you?" Newsom said with a smile, a bundle of paper in his hand, and ostensibly drawing a pen from his jacket pocket. He then appeared to sign three pieces of paper."This is now official," he said with a laugh. "That is now injunctive relief if you do any of those 'deepfake' election misrepresentations."So that's how easy it is to govern."Newsom, Benioff, and the audience may have found the situation humorous, but many others worry that the bills may further erode First Amendment protections of free speech.AB 2655, also known as the Defending Democracy from Deepfake Deception Act of 2024, requires online platforms "to block the posting of materially deceptive content related to elections in California" and "to label certain additional content inauthentic, fake, or false" during designated periods before and after an election.AB 2355 expands upon existing law and requires a committee that creates, publishes, and/or distributes some political advertising to add a "disclosure" noting when an ad has been "generated or substantially altered" using AI. The bill addresses "any image, audio, or video that is generated or substantially altered using artificial intelligence" that would give a reasonable person "a fundamentally different understanding of the altered media when comparing it to an unaltered version."AB 2839 also builds upon existing law that already prohibits people from knowingly distributing, with malice, election material containing "certain materially deceptive content." Previous law required this statute to be enforced 60 days before an election. It will now be enforced 120 days before an election and, in certain cases, up to 60 days afterward.In a statement, Newsom insisted these speech restrictions were necessary for the sake of democracy. "Safeguarding the integrity of elections is essential to democracy, and it’s critical that we ensure AI is not deployed to undermine the public’s trust through disinformation – especially in today’s fraught political climate," Newsom said. "These measures will help to combat the harmful use of deepfakes in political ads and other content, one of several areas in which the state is being proactive to foster transparent and trustworthy AI."Billionaire Elon Musk, a professed Trump supporter who recently moved some of his companies out of California because of its onerous laws, called out Newsom for essentially proscribing election parody ads.One particular video that went viral recently features a deepfake of Kamala Harris' voice bragging that she is "the ultimate diversity hire" who was "selected" to be the Democrat presidential nominee after "Joe Biden finally exposed his senility."In July, Newsom specifically cited that viral video as the kind of "manipulating" election content that "should be illegal."Early Wednesday morning, Musk tweeted the video out once again, demonstrating that he has no intention of abiding by California's new restrictions: "The governor of California just made this parody video illegal in violation of the Constitution of the United States. Would be a shame if it went viral."Libs of TikTok has also shared the video this week in light of the new California laws. "This is the video that @GavinNewsom doesn’t want you to see," the account wrote.Comedian Rob Schneider likewise called out Newsom for trying to restrict the funny video. "ALL FOLLOWERS PLEASE RETWEET THIS ONLY ILLEGAL IN CALIFORNIA PARODY…." he said.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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