Ahead of congressional votes on Republican tax legislation on Tuesday, the NBC and ABC morning shows both predicted political doom for the GOP with passage of the bill. The network broadcasts painted the plan as one that would benefit the wealthy and veer into “dangerous political territory.”

“But the Republican bill also has major political risks,” warned correspondent Kasie Hunt on NBC’s Today show. She particularly lamented: “It repeals the ObamaCare mandate, requiring people to buy health insurance, which the Congressional Budget Office projects could cause premiums to spike.”

Hunt eagerly touted how “Republicans could already be paying a political price, with a new poll showing nearly half of Americans disapprove of the tax plan.” That’s no surprise since the liberal media have spent months trashing the proposal.

She then turned to the bill’s left-wing opponents for comment:

UNIDENTIFIED MAN [PROTESTER]: Vote no on this bill. HUNT: On Capitol Hill, last-minute protests outside congressional offices and from Democrats. SEN. CHUCK SCHUMER [SENATE MINORITY LEADER, D-NY]: The bill, in short, is a cynical one-two gut punch to the middle class.

Following Hunt’s report, co-host Hoda Kotb teed up MSNBC anchor and business analyst Stephanie Ruhle to further blast the legislation: “Everyone says the big winner in this whole thing, you put corporations up on top.” Ruhle ranted:

Without a doubt. I mean, this is a bet on trickle-down economics. So the Republicans are betting if you give corporations a break, they will then hire more people, give them higher wages, build factories. But that’s a big bet. So by lowering corporations’ tax rates, they’re currently in the high 30s, and now down to 21%, that’s a huge break. You know who else is gonna benefit from that? Wall Street. Wall Street is getting a break because all along we heard, carried interest, which is another kind of hookup....I would just say, [who] really gets hooked up, and he doesn’t like to say it, is President Trump and his family. And that’s because they’re in the real estate business....it’s a big win for them.

After claiming only wealthy winners in the tax plan, co-host Savannah Guthrie pointed out: “Well, let’s talk about the losers. Because I mean, look, individuals are – every tax bracket is getting a tax cut. So you put individuals on your losers.” Ruhle tried to justify that assertion: “Well, they are. Listen, individuals are getting a cut, that’s a positive. But it’s a temporary cut....So individual cuts expire in 2025. So come 2026, we hope that gets renewed, but it might not.” So the possibility of tax cuts expiring in a decade makes taxpayers “losers”?

Kotb fretted: “A lot matters what state you live in. You could be making a certain income and live in one state and a certain income and live in another, and one gets hammered.” Ruhle turned to her fellow wealthy media personalities and declared: “And you two ladies are getting hammered, as is my mom in New Jersey. So high-tax states, high-income states, high earners like New York, New Jersey, California, you’re out of luck.” The bill does not eliminate such deductions, it simply places a $10,000 cap on them. Also, perhaps Democrats in those states should actually consider cutting taxes.

On ABC’s Good Morning America, correspondent Mary Bruce skeptically wondered: “Republicans poised for that first major victory, but will it be a win for the American people?” She added: “Republicans and the President insist this bill is aimed at the middle class, but a new analysis shows that the long-term benefits will actually go to the rich.”

Touting that “new analysis,” Bruce proclaimed: “After the first decade, the report finds the wealthiest Americans would receive a tax cut, while 70% of middle income Americans would see their taxes go up.” Like Ruhle, Bruce automatically assumed that the middle class tax cuts would not be extended by Congress.

After fill-in co-host Paula Faris asked “how confident” Republicans were that the bill would pass, Bruce bemoaned liberal efforts to stop the legislation being unsuccessful: “Well, Paula, there have been protesters up here on the Hill trying to convince Republicans not to do this, but to no avail.”

In a panel discussion following Bruce’s report, fellow correspondent Cecilia Vega assured co-host George Stephanopoulos that Republicans were entering “dangerous political territory here,” with “a lot of polls out there that show that a number of Americans, more than half of Americans, disagree with this plan....And two-thirds of them say that it will benefit the rich over the middle class.”

Again, all Democratic talking points that have been constantly parroted by the press for months.

Turning to Daily Beast editor-in-chief John Avlon, Stephanopoulos reveled in the poll numbers: “This is a tax cut. Yet it’s in some ways more unpopular than tax increases have been in the past.” Avlon agreed: “ It – look, that’s unusual, right? I mean, everyone loves a tax cut. Tax hikes are hard to get through. The math here is upside down.”

He observed: “The problem is this has been sold as a middle class tax bill and a simplification. It is a big political win for Republicans and the President, but it doesn’t deliver on those two promises.” Stephanopoulos chimed in: “And that’s what Democrats are hoping for come November in the midterm elections.”

As Republicans are on the verge of a major legislative victory, the supposed “journalists” at NBC and ABC were already trying to distort the congressional accomplishment as a defeat for the GOP that would help Democrats.

The Heritage Foundation provided a detailed analysis dispelling many of the media myths about the Republican tax plan.

Here are excerpts of the December 19 coverage on both networks: