Cross posted to the MRC's NewsBusters blog
In the last couple of days, CNN hosts Erin Burnett and Sara Sidner hyped former Republican Mayor Rudy Giuliani's daughter publicly endorsing Democrat Kamala Harris for President, giving the impression that she is a Republican party defector, even though she has a long history of supporting Democrats for President and liberal causes.
On Wednesday evening, after a report on the Kamala Harris campaign by reporter Priscilla Alvarez, host Burnett segued to describe Caroline Rose Giuliani as "breaking from" her father over the election and writing a piece in Vanity Fair about it:
Priscilla's new reporting tonight comes as Giuliani endorses Kamala Harris -- Caroline Rose Giuliani, that is. She is the daughter of Rudy Giuliani who, of course, is former President Donald Trump's personal attorney, breaking publicly from her father now, endorsing Vice President Kamala Harris for President, calling Trump "destructive," "calamitous," and a "dark force" -- all quotes from Caroline Rose, blaming Trump for destroying her father's life.
As she brought aboard the younger Giuliani as a guest, the CNN host gave no hint of her history of supporting Democrats:
She is a writer, a film maker, and obviously the daughter of the former New York City mayor, Rudy Giuliani. Caroline Rose, I know this is your first television interview since your endorsement, so I appreciate very much your taking the time. I can only imagine how hard it is for you to have made that decision -- to do it publicly. Can you share, you know, what you went through, Caroline Rose. What made you make this decision?
After complaining about Trump's resistance to conceding that he lost the 2020 election, Giuliani admitted to some of her liberal views:
I very much want to have children, and one day, I just thought about what I would say to my children in the future, and, in that moment, everything just became incredibly real. Like, I want to live in a country, if I have a girl, I want her to have autonomy over her body, and, if she becomes a boy, I want her to feel safe and respected in this country, and no matter the gender of my children, I want them to live on a planet that's habitable, and I would really also like them to live in democracy.
She added: "So it just -- the stakes all hit me at once, and I knew I had to use every resource at my disposal to get this message out there that we need to elect Kamala Harris if they want a future."
On Thursday morning, Sidner blurred Caroline Giuliani with Republicans who are supporting the Democrat ticket as she recalled that ex-Congresswoman Liz Cheney (R-WY) will be making a campaign appearance with Vice President Harris:
The surprising political team of Harris and Cheney -- later today, former top Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney joins Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris for a campaign stop in the critical swing state of Wisconsin. Cheney just one in a long line of Republicans now endorsing Harris in this election because they say a second Trump presidency is a threat to democracy. The daughter of Trump's former personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, writing in a Vanity Fair op-ed that she is breaking from her father.
Again, no hint was given by the anchor that Giuliani already has a history of supporting Democrats, although the liberal guest did again admit to some of her views. A bit later, Giuliani claimed Trump is a threat to the "existence" of various minorities and called for Harris to be elected.
But announcing public support for Democrats in presidential elections is nothing new for Ms. Giuliani.
In fact, four years ago, CNN similarly reported that Giuliani wrote a piece, also in Vanity Fair, highlighting her link to Rudy Giuliani as she called for Americans to vote for Joe Biden. She publicly supported Hillary Clinton in 2016 and, in 2008, joined a pro-Barack Obama group while her father was seeking the Republican nomination.
