For a second consecutive evening Disney-owned ABC World News Tonight, the most Trump-deranged of the Elitist Media evening newscasts, has elected to run a news item highlighting Texas Senate candidate Ken Paxton’s remarks complaining on the GOP Midterm Convention. For the second consecutive night, ABC pushed “Republicans in Disarray” and polling DOOM!!11!!
Watch the report in its entirety as aired on ABC World News Tonight on Thursday, October 1st, 2026:
WATCH: For a second consecutive day, @ABCWorldNews milks the Paxton post-convention remarks and pushes polling DOOM while omitting Troy Jackson's brutal "genocide" remarks
DAVID MUIR: This evening, the midterm election of course, now 33 days away. And President Trump, amid some… pic.twitter.com/3eSYK8kt9C— Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) October 2, 2026
DAVID MUIR: This evening, the midterm election of course, now 33 days away. And President Trump, amid some of his lowest poll numbers on record and deep concern over inflation, the president now traveling to five deep red states. Here's Rachel Scott tonight.
RACHEL SCOTT: Tonight, President Trump in Texas, where one of the fiercest Senate races could decide control of Congress. He arrived with a new poll showing his national approval rating at 31%, a record low. The president won Texas handily, but now polls in the Senate race show the Democrat, James Talarico, leading Republican Ken Paxton. After the president held his midterm convention in Dallas, The New York Times obtained audio of Paxton complaining it hurt his campaign.
KEN PAXTON: When we did that convention, it dropped our numbers. Everybody’s numbers dropped. Right now, yeah, not good.
SCOTT: Today in Texas, Trump praising Paxton.
DONALD TRUMP: Ken Paxton was at my side more than anybody. And I have to always remember that because he could be a pain in the ass sometimes, I'll be honest.
SCOTT: Other Republicans keeping the president at arm's length. Still, President Trump today giving himself a grade A-plus.
TRUMP: I give us an A-plus on the government, on economics, on everything. Look at inflation. I inherited the worst inflation in history under Biden, worst in history. And now it's great.
SCOTT: But the reality is inflation has jumped since Trump took office from 2.8% to 3.4%. 80% of Americans disapprove of how he's handling it. And today, Vice President JD Vance with a very different message from the president, urging Republicans to not, quote, “ignore people's concerns.”
JD VANCE: Listen to people who are upset with the state of the economy. If we don't listen to people, we will turn into the very thing that we hate.
SCOTT: This is the president's first major midterm campaign swing. He'll be here in Oklahoma tonight. Then over the next few days, we'll see him in Alabama, Ohio and Nebraska, all states he has won before as he tries to energize his core supporters to turn out to the polls. David.
MUIR: Rachel Scott live with us tonight. Rachel, thanks.
The report, a rehash of the previous evening’s slop, obviously serves little purpose except to assist Democrat Senate candidate James Talarico and discourage Republicans from voting in the midterm. This explains the steady drumbeat of consistently citing negative poll numbers for President Trump. So devoted to this mission is ABC that they’ve broadly stopped reporting on some of the other Senate races that previously dominated coverage, such as Michigan and Maine.
Speaking of Maine, the networks all continue to omit Democrat Senate candidate Troy Jackson’s comments on the Holocaust.
Maine Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Troy Jackson is apologizing for comments he made this week in a NEWS CENTER Maine candidate profile interview about Israeli “genocide” in Gaza.
In reiterating his view that that the three-year-old Israel-Gaza war “is a genocide,” Jackson said in the interview, “There are people here in Maine that don't like to use that term only because, you know, they're Jewish and, you know, what that means to them with the Holocaust.”
Jackson has since apologized for those remarks. An apology would have extended the news cycle into the weekend had a Republican proffered similar remarks. Instead, it is all swept under the rug.
Between omitting the Jackson scandal while continuing to flog the Paxton remarks, ABC demonstrates why their news content is under scrutiny.
