After weeks defending Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, standing idly by as they duck interviews, and hyping up their “joyful” campaign, the media have pivoted to praising Harris’s supposed “momentum.”

This is a pretty standard case of news cycle manipulation. The media spend weeks astro-turfing support for Harris, then when polls begin to shift, they turn around and report on the campaign’s momentum — which they themselves worked to create. Must be good to be a Democrat.

All Monday morning, celebratory chyrons blared talk of Harris “gaining ground” in key swing states, based on a handful of new polls that were conducted since she selected Governor Tim Walz (D-MN) as her running mate. ABC’s Good Morning America, along with several MSNBC and CNN shows this a.m., opened with Harris’s “momentum” as their lead story.

See the video below for what the media’s latest Kamala victory lap looked like this morning: