This week’s Liberal Media Scream finds some Democratic media celebrities just unable to sit back and savor the party’s escape from near death in the elections last week.
Exhibit A is The View’s Sunny Hostin, who claimed that younger voters, who “saved this country,” are being targeted by Republicans in some made-up bid to raise the voting age to 28.
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“When you look at the youth voter turnout in the 2022 midterms, they delivered key wins for the Democrats. Younger voters aged 18 to 29, which, by the way, now the Republicans want to raise the voting to age 28,” she said.
Using that as her straw man, she lashed out at Republicans, but no national GOP figure in Washington is seriously considering such a move.
Hostin, who, in addition to serving as one of the liberal panelists on The View is the senior legal correspondent for ABC News, got no pushback from any of her fellow panelists for the claim Republicans want to raise the voting age to 28. Just last week, she compared Republican women to “cockroaches.”
From the Nov. 14 The View:
“Just like the Latina saved the Senate, young voters saved this country. We need to really understand that we are supposed to leave this world in a better place than we found it. When you look at the youth voter turnout in the 2022 midterms, they delivered key wins for the Democrats. Younger voters, aged 18 to 29, which, by the way, now the Republicans want to raise the voting to age 28.”
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“Younger voters were the only voter group by age to overwhelmingly support Democrats in the midterms. Sixty-three percent of voters voted for Democratic House candidates. I think, my friend, you know, Cornell Belcher — and you know Cornell as well — he says there are really two electorates. One older and one younger fighting to take this country in very different directions. The Republican Party has to get with it. They are dying out, and they are being extremist.”
Brent Baker, vice president of research and publications for the Media Research Center, explains our weekly pick: “More crazy talk from someone on The View. And that’s saying something. Getting all excited about how the youth vote matched her personal liberal views is no surprise, but piling on with a ridiculous claim about how ‘Republicans’ want to hike the voting age to 28, raises again the question of what, if any, oversight ABC News has for their program or how she continues as an ABC News analyst.”
Rating: FOUR out of FIVE SCREAMS.
