‘Oddly specific’: ABC News deletes tweet declaring Dems will hold House in Nov, gain 4 Senate seats
June 19, 2022 | Kevin Haggerty
In 1948, the Chicago Daily Tribune erroneously ran the headline “Dewey Defeats Truman” the day after incumbent President Harry S. Truman won his election campaign. More than seventy years later ABC News raised eyebrows after deleting a tweet much like the Tribune, only months ahead of the midterm elections.
On Saturday, the Associated Press published a piece titled “Biden’s optimism collides with mounting political challenges” that discussed the strategy for Democratic politicians ahead of November contests. ABC News ran the story as well, but initially deleted a link to the article that they had posted to Twitter.
The caption for the tweet was the opening line to the piece that stated, “Democrats are going to hold onto the House after November’s midterm elections. They will pick up as many as four seats in the Senate, expanding their majority and overcoming internal dissent that has helped stifle their agenda.”
Neither ABC News nor the AP presented the story as opinion and the lede appeared to be present an objective truth that the outlets had come to well in advance of ballots being cast prompting Human Events senior Editor Jack Posobiec to ask what’s going on.
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1538218958549131266“Hi @ABC!” Posobiec wrote. “Why did you delete this?”
It wasn’t long after the suspicious deletion was pointed out that ABC News posted a new link to the exact same article captioned, “A previous tweet took the lede of an AP story about Pres. Biden’s optimistic view of the Democratic Party’s chances this November out of context. The story indicates that the view is at odds with many in his party.”
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https://www.bizpacreview.com/2022/06/19/oddly-specific-abc-news-deletes-tweet-declaring-dems-will-hold-house-in-nov-gain-4-senate-seats-1252005/
