ABCs Bruce, Stephanopoulos Give Off North Korean News Lady Vibes in DNC Recap [Video]

Tuesday on ABC’s Good Morning America, co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos tag-teamed with chief White House correspondent and unofficial Biden-Harris official Mary Bruce showed they understood the assignment in fawning over the Democratic National Convention. In this case, it was hailing President Biden’s speech “passing the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris” to cap “jam-packed and emotional first night.”

Stephanopoulos’s tease wasn’t what one could consider a Notable Quotable, but it instead read like a staid press release:

ABC’s George Stephanopoulos understood the assignment for ‘GMA’. This was his tease recapping night one of the DNC:

“President Biden keynotes the DNC, calls VP Kamala Harris the next president. Passing the torch…President Biden at the Democratic National Convention greeted by… pic.twitter.com/ziUxOWFzIA

— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) August 20, 2024

His opening to Bruce’s report upped the ante, stating as fact that the nominee for a party representing nearly half the country is a threat to democracy …