CNN is reporting that ‘voters’ need Trump off the 2024 poll in Massachusetts and Illinois, however by utilizing the imprecise time period ‘voters’ they’re truly obscuring some of the vital facets of the story. Simply what number of ‘voters’ are they speaking about?

It’s a basic trick the media makes use of to advance a story they like. Make it sound like the difficulty is supported by a majority by burying the precise numbers someplace within the report.

Voters in Illinois and Massachusetts search to take away Donald Trump from the 2024 main poll primarily based on the “insurrectionist clause” https://t.co/GZtiMawQBJ

— CNN Breaking Information (@cnnbrk) January 4, 2024

The Related Press received in on this too.

Voters file an objection to Trump’s identify on the Illinois poll https://t.co/zs0hJxlPYL

— The Related Press (@AP) January 5, 2024

Years in the past, this type of trickery might have labored every so often, however persons are on to them today.

Twitchy studies:

The media’s newest try at ‘making yellow journalism great again’ comes courtesy of CNN, who tried to report on a narrative about but two MORE states the place they’re making an attempt to take away Donald Trump from the 2024 poll. You recognize, to ‘protect’ democracy.

Trying on the headline on this tweet, you’d suppose folks all around the states of Illinois and Massachusetts are rising up in opposition to the Unhealthy Orange Man.

Besides … yeah, not a lot.

Only a cursory examination of the information right here reveals that the petitions in each states should not a grassroots voter motion, however as a substitute a coordinated assault from one far-left activist group, Free Speech for Folks (sure, we laughed on the irony of the group’s identify too).

Nevertheless it will get even higher. The ‘groups of voters’ CNN refers to in Illinois? It was 5 folks. Not 5,000. Not 500. Not even 50.

5.

5 voters.

Saved you a click on. https://t.co/SlPdldc7Ls

— TheFOO (@PolitiBunny) January 5, 2024

CNN and the Related Press might have stated ‘five anti-Trump activists’ however known as them ‘voters’ as a substitute as a result of that feels like greater than 5 folks. It additionally feels like folks on the whole, relatively than activists with an agenda.

Irrespective of how a lot you despise the media, it isn’t sufficient.