CNN’s Acosta: ‘This Is the Happiest the Republican Party Has Been… All Year’

The Republican lawmakers gathered on the South Lawn of the White House Wednesday afternoon were giddy. And one of this administration’s most prominent media foils noticed.

With the handshakes and hugs still going on in the background following the South Lawn ceremony celebrating the passage of the GOP tax bill, CNN’s senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta made a pithy observation during his report.

“I think this is the happiest the Republican Party has been, visibly, all year long,” Acosta said. “We saw that on the South Lawn of the White House. You saw every major Republican leader come up, and take the microphone, and praise this president.”

Acosta went on to splash cold water on President Donald Trump’s signature legislative achievement to date by pointing out the bill’s lack of bipartisan support and unpopularity with the electorate.

“Americans have said in poll after poll they viewed this tax cut plan as giveaway to the rich,” Acosta said. “That wealthier Americans will be prospering, as opposed to middle-class Americans getting the long end of the stick here. They feel like that wealthier Americans hand corporations are going to be doing better out of this tax cut plan.”

The White House correspondent noted that Republicans are banking on people seeing larger paychecks to turn the tide on public angst over the bill. But…

“If that’s not enough to win [Americans] over over the course of next year,” Acosta said, “you may see very different expression on the looks of Republicans come a year from now.”

Watch above, via CNN.

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