Evening Newscasts Wrap: ABC News Political Unit
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LEADS:
ABC leads with an Islamic website showing another beheading. Pierre Thomas reports. NBC leads with new details about Babar, an Al Qaeda operative living in the U.S. Pete Williams reports. CBS leads with the hurricane season. Jim Acosta reports.
HARSH ATTACKS FROM BC'04:
ABC's Jonathan Karl notes "the day's first attack came in Missouri from the Vice President suggesting John Kerry and John Edwards aren't fit to make decisions about national security." Cheney SOT. Also today, President Bush "hit Sen. Kerry for being unclear about what he'll do in Iraq." Bush SOT. Karl notes "the Bush/Cheney campaign is clearly playing the commander-in-chief card." While President Bush has been challenging Kerry over whether he voted to go to war, Sen. Kerry said that the still would have voted "to give the President the authority to go to war, but he would have used that authority differently." Kerry SOT from yesterday. "For the Bush campaign, the race comes down to a battle to define what kind of commander-in-chief John Kerry would be indecisive and the fervor of the attacks suggest Republicans are worried Kerry is gaining ground."
KERRY HITS BUSH OVER MEDICARE:
ABC's Dan Harris reports Kerry hit back today, taking "dead aim at the President's Medicare prescription drug benefit." Kerry SOT: "I proudly and I think rightly voted against this prescription drug bill that the President has put in place that hurts seniors in this country." President Bush has not mentioned his plan in ads or even in his stump today in Albuquerque. A new poll shows a large margin of Medicare recipients have an "unfavorable view of the program." The poll also shows that they want to legalize drug importation from Canada. The Bush campaign argues that Kerry is misleading seniors. They argue first, "there's no guarantee that drugs imported from Canada are safe, and second, the Medicare drug benefit has been the victim of a democratic misinformation campaign." Terry Holt SOT. In closing, Harris notes, "the problem for the President, is with fewer than three months left before the election, he doesn't have much time left to sell the plan."
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