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30 Apr 2021
MSNBC scrambled Thursday to find speech watchers of President Joe Biden’s address to Congress as event ratings tanked.
“I’ve got to tell you, most of the folks that I’ve spoken to here did not actually watch Joe Biden’s address last night,” reporter Priscilla Thompson explained in Atlanta Thursday morning.
“I’ve spoken to around a dozen folks and only two of them watched and listened to what he had to say last night,” she added.
Ellison Barber, reporting from Coral Gables, Florida, was next asked by Anchor Hallie Jackson what people in Florida were saying about the speech.
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Hours ahead of President Biden’s Wednesday address to Congress marking his first 100 days in office, NBC’s
Today show delivered the shocking news to viewers that people who voted for the Democrat in November still support him. The ridiculous segment wasted nearly five minutes of air time touting how Biden supporters loved the President’s “personality” and “temperament.”
“You know, for this story in particular, we really focused on people who are new to the Democratic fold, folks all across the country who voted Republican in 2016 but who flipped in 2020, to see how they think the President’s doing in his first 100 days,” senior Washington correspondent Hallie Jackson explained at the beginning of the one-sided report.
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President Biden expressed his support for the transgender community during his address to Congress Wednesday. Alphonso David, Human Rights Campaign president, joins MSNBC’s Hallie Jackson to discuss the impact of this support and what he thinks can be done to further help the transgender community.April 29, 2021
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Scott Stringer is facing calls to drop out of the mayor’s race and
One of Stringer’s biggest
supporters, state Sen. Jessica Ramos, officially rescinded her endorsement Wednesday afternoon. “This kind of behavior is unacceptable in any workplace and those who have perpetrated such acts must be held accountable for their actions, not given bigger platforms,” the Queens pol said. She’s one of the young, progressive female lawmakers whose early endorsements gave Stringer cred on the left, and has been highly active in his campaign ever since. Several Democratic district leaders announ