No Need to Worry, Guys! ABC Dismisses Stevens Endorsement, Touts WILD NYT Polls

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ABC’s Good Morning America did its best to paper over Sunday’s stunning announcement in Michigan, with Democratic Congresswoman Haley Stevens (D-MI) endorsing Republican senatorial candidate Mike Rogers over Democrat Abdul el-Sayed, the man who defeated Stevens by roughly a point in the primary. ABC reassured leftist viewers that “Democrats [are] showing strength despite some last-minute drama in Michigan,” with early votes and some possibly cockamamie polling from The New York Times arguing Democrats will win every single Senate toss-up.

In the teases, co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos promoted the “surprising” “final twist,” but quickly discounted it by gushing: “Could Democrats flip the House and Senate? What could ultimately decide who wins.”

Stephanopoulos’s build-up to chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce’s report was pure liberal happy talk that even refused to say Stevens’s name: “Democrats showing strength despite some last-minute drama in Michigan, where the Democratic primary loser endorsed the Republican candidate for Senate as President Trump made his final push in red states.”

Bruce said Stevens’s “surprise endorsement...rocking one of the most closely watched Senate races” had left “Democrats fuming after” the “stunning announcement.”

The ABC correspondent downplayed el-Sayed’s ties to radical Islamists: “The breaking point came over this controversial ad from an outside group backing El-Sayed...Stevens called the ad anti-Semitic and urged El-Sayed to denounce it. He has said he disagrees with it. Asked about Stevens’ endorsement of his Republican opponent, the Democratic nominee brushing it off.”

She added Democrats were “outraged,” and promoted the theatre kids in her House office “resigning in protest, saying the team is ‘shocked and heartbroken’ at her decision.”

Bruce also downplayed and oversimplified the fraud in Alaska with the second Dan Sullivan that reportedly was recruited by Democrat Senate candidate Mary Peltola and the national party (click “expand”):

BRUCE: But the President dealt a blow in another critical Senate race: the Alaska contest between Republican Senator Dan Sullivan and Democrat Mary Peltola. A federal judge Sunday rejecting the administration’s effort to preemptively challenge the results if Sullivan loses because another candidate named Dan Sullivan is also on the ballot. The judge saying that since ballots are secret, it would be impossible to determine whether voters who voted for the other Dan Sullivan were confused. The Justice Department says they plan to appeal. Our Trevor Ault is in Alaska, where early voting has surged.

TREVOR AULT: Look at this line of people for early voting at the mall in Anchorage. This is snaking all the way through. I’m told every single day it’s been like this for a week. Sometimes, people waiting two hours to get their vote cast early.

BRUCE: Even if he loses, Senator Sullivan says he’ll accept the results.

Back in 2024, though, Bruce was giddy over “prominent conservative” Liz Cheney’s endorsement of Kamala Harris for president. On October 4, 2024’s Good Morning America, Bruce swooned at the “astonishing sight” as “a powerful reminder of the difficult choice that many Republicans are facing” because “democracy is on the line.”

Bruce’s fellow virulent Trump-hating correspondent followed with some liberal pom-pom waving of her own.

Rachel Scott trumpeted a set of New York Times/Siena polls released Sunday, which projected a Senate Democrat sweep in all seven swing seats.

Along with it claiming el-Sayed has an 11-point lead over Republican Mike Rogers, it projects a seven-point win in Texas for Democrat James Talarico and a five-point victory for Kansas Democrat Adam Hamilton (click “expand”):

SCOTT: In order for Democrats to take control of the Senate, they need to defend everything they currently have, and then also flip at least four seats. This seemed out of reach just a few months ago because that means Democrats would have to win in red states that the president won by double digits — states like Alaska, Texas, Kansas, Iowa, and also Ohio. But in recent weeks, the final weeks of this campaign, voter frustrations over the economy, over the war in Iran, the cost of living — that has brought these races a lot closer and a lot tighter than what Republicans had hoped to see. In fact, in all of these battleground states, the latest poll from New York Times and Siena shows that Democrats have a nine-point edge over Republicans on that number one issue of the economy. Let’s take a look at that poll because it does show that in states like Texas and Ohio, the Democrats are pulling ahead of Republicans just slightly. But take a look at where this stands in a state like Kansas that has not sent a Democrat to the Senate in nearly a century — it is the Democrat, Adam Hamilton, that is pulling ahead just slightly there. Here in Iowa, it is a dead heat. This is much closer than Republicans want to see. Now, of course, these polls — it is a snapshot in time. This is not a prediction. It will be voters that will ultimately get the final say tomorrow.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Right. Those Times polls showed the Democratic candidate way ahead in Michigan.

Back in reality, thought: The same polls ahead of the 2024 presidential election were cartoonishly wrong:

Scott returned in the second hour to double down on the wild New York Times/Sienna polls predicting a blowout for Democrats and a clean sweep.

She vouched for their validity, saying it’s “fueled by voters on the economy, the high cost of living” to give “Democrats...traction” even if they were simply “a snapshot in time.”

“[W]e’ve been all across this country. We have correspondents fanned out all over, and the polls are reflecting what we’re hearing from voters. The economy is the number one issue that is driving voters to the polls,” she added.

To see the relevant ABC transcript from November 2, click here.