Network coverage of former President Trump has been overwhelmingly negative since the second assassination attempt against him Sunday, according to one report.
Analysts at the Media Research Center (MRC) reviewed 69 minutes of campaign coverage on the ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts between September 15 and September 17.
MRC reported that although the thwarted assassination attempt took up 70% of all campaign news on the networks, a significant amount of that coverage was negative towards Trump.
“Over the three nights, we tallied 21 evaluative comments about the GOP candidate, 20 of which were negative, which computes to a 95% negative spin score,” the MRC reported.
NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt drew a connection between Trump’s rhetoric and the attempted violence against him just hours after a suspected gunman was spotted.
“Today’s apparent assassination attempt comes amid increasingly fierce rhetoric on the campaign trail itself. Mr. Trump [and] his running mate JD Vance continued to make baseless claims about Haitian immigrants in Ohio,” Hold said Sunday.