Well, this is exciting. ABC News has an EXCLUSIVE. As in, Barack Obama shot a campaign ad encouraging Virginians to vote yes on gerrymandering and sent it exclusively to ABC News to pass on, rather than posting it to his own X account. In short, ABC News was running a free political ad for the Democrats, not that that's surprising. It was so overt in this case, though, that ABC News deleted the post after a massive backlash. We checked the @ABCPolitics feed to see if they'd acknowledged the deletion, but it appears they have not.
ABC News faces backlash for presenting Obama campaign ad as an 'exclusive' on redistricting measure https://t.co/TIZisxshHO pic.twitter.com/qs3zPzhsE4
— New York Post (@nypost) April 18, 2026
Why the hell does a major news network consider an extremely partisan campaign ad an “exclusive”? https://t.co/k3hM1Ru7hW
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) April 17, 2026
Looks like an in-kind contribution to the Democrat Party.
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) April 17, 2026
It's like doing a quote-tweet when the added text just says "EXCLUSIVE."
— Stephen Green (@VodkaPundit) April 17, 2026
Obama recorded a video on gerrymandering and gave it to ABC News and you ran it?
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) April 17, 2026
That's a pretty big tell about your news organization. https://t.co/OL95xe7l0M
It was a video PROMOTING gerrymandering.
— Karl Wright (@DaddyWri) April 17, 2026
It was an ad telling Virginians how to vote.
I remember when ex-presidents faded into the sunset, never to be heard from again. This jackass always has to inject himself into shit.
— nitrain32 (@nitrain32) April 17, 2026
Sounds like Obama has come to the conclusion that ABC News is his PR company, and all they've done is just confirm that notion
— Josh (@jbcreed) April 17, 2026
It must be newsworthy!
— joe_auchter (@joe_auchter) April 18, 2026
It was an EXCLUSIVE!
The FCC will have a field day with this one.
— Tired of being politically correct (@USBornNRaised) April 18, 2026
MSM = DNC propaganda
— Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) April 18, 2026
he’s a snake pic.twitter.com/w7dkbe1BoB
— TazTears💦 (@TazTears) April 18, 2026
And ABC is a worm for running a Democrat campaign ad as a news "exclusive."
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