CNN’s pivot to serious, hard-hitting journalism is not going so well.

Reporter Dana Bash slipped the familiar confines of the Acela Corridor recently to visit the wilds of Ohio, where she and her team produced a video segment benefiting embattled incumbent Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-OH). The puff piece even includes input from a hyperpartisan, pro-Kaptur union laborer, whom the CNN video segment attempts to pass off as just an everyday middle-class worker.