Their dissent from the legacy media’s party line triggered the show’s host and guests to insist that Red State voters had been victims of disinformation. MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” showed footage of a focus group of Trump voters that pollster Frank Luntz conducted for the newspaper. Americans in the heartland only believe this summer’s Black Lives Matter protests turned 2020 into a uniquely violent year, because they “live in a Fox News/Newsmax/OAN bubble,” where stations played the same “violent outbreaks on a loop,” according to MSNBC and The New York Times.
