By Dave Andrusko

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Sometimes the internal composition of news stories can tell you an enormous amount about the near panic the Legacy Media is in with the presidential election now just 5 ½ months—164 days—away.

Common denominator? A fierce determination to critique every syllable that come out of the mouth of pro-life former President Donald Trump and a blatant double standard—one for Trump and another for pro-abortion President Joe Biden—who is a walking malapropism.

Let’s pour through a couple of examples.

It’s no secret that while Biden will (as do all Democrats running for President) win the vast majority of Black voters, that grip is loosening. And that is doubly—triply—true for Hispanic voters.

Russell Contreras, writing at Axis reports that “Democrats’ advantage among Black, Latino and Asian voters is at its lowest since 1960, Financial Times columnist and chief data reporter John Burn-Murdoch found by analyzing a massive set of polling data:

A New York Times/Siena College poll out March 2 found that President Biden led former President Trump by just 56 points to 44 among non-white Americans.

That’s a group Biden won by almost 50 points when the two men last fought it out for the White House in 2020, Burn-Murdoch points out.

Reporters cannot believe the hold pro-life former President Donald Trump has a growing segment of Black voters and—especially—Hispanics voters. Or, if they cannot deny Trump’s undeniable appeal, they do so grudgingly or explain it away or give the worst possible motivations for the shifts.

Yesterday, Trump held a rally in Crotona Park in the Bronx. Some accounts (accurately) pointed out that there was a large turnout in an area that is “28% Black and 56% Latino — two groups that have historically favored Democrats by wide margins,” as Ben Adler wrote for USA Today. To his credit, Adler wrote

The snaking line to enter the area cordoned off for the rally by police barricades was filled with enthusiastic Trump supporters, who cheered and gaped when they spotted his motorcade. Once he took the stage, the crowd went up on their tippy toes, arms upright with cellphone cameras aloft, hoping to catch just a glimpse of him.

But it was quite amusing to see Adler note that in an area that is controlled entirely by Democrats “Local elected officials react negatively.” (Really?)

Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.), who represents the area, said “If you were to examine objective data among likely voters in the Bronx, you would find that Donald Trump is less popular than arsenic.”

So, the theme in a number of stories was that since Trump had no chance to win New York State [or New Jersey, which he had also visited recently], this was raw politics, or posturing, or a nostalgic trip back home, or an attempt to counter President Biden’s claims that Trump is a racist or soft on racism.

Let’s examine that as well.

Biden’s own White House made nine corrections to the formal transcript of a viciously partisan speech delivered to the NAACP last Sunday. But there were no corrections to a string of falsehoods made about remarks Trump supposedly had made, remarks which have been disproven over and over and over again. Or, for that matter, assertions that critics could take apart in nanoseconds.

When Trump makes a mistake or exaggerates, reporters happily slice and dice him. When Biden makes a gaffe, reporters take a page out of the report of Special counsel Robert Hur. His office did not recommend charges being brought against Biden for his handling of classified documents while out of office because “at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory.”

And so it goes…and will continue to go. But Trump is a far, far better campaigner than Biden and in the end this will be nail-bitter. We just need to do our part—and we will!