It took former Democratic New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman three hours to resign Monday night after accusations arose alleging he would violently strike his girlfriends without their consent. But throughout ABC World News Tonight’s two-minutes-and-21-second report on the situation, there was not a single mention of the fact that he was an elected Democrat. In contrast, both CBS and NBC noted that important detail.

Over on CBS Evening News, Schneiderman’s party affiliation was mentioned not once, not twice, but three times. “He was at the forefront of the #MeToo movement. Now a top Democratic official is accused of sexual abuse,” anchor Jeff Glor stated during the opening tease for the program.

Glor repeated himself while he was introducing the segment: “One prominent politician's career imploded with shocking speed last night. New York State's Democratic attorney general went from a hero of the #MeToo movement to a pariah within hours.” A short time later, reporter Jericka Duncan played a soundbite of New Yorker magazine investigative reporter Ronan Farrow, who broke the story, explaining why Schneiderman’s party ID played a role:

These are women who had nothing to gain by coming forward, and everything to lose. Many of them hesitated for quite some time. Their friends and loved ones told them don't do this, either because they feared that there would be that retaliation or because they just felt his work for the Democratic Party was too good and too important to jeopardize.

Although they only noted it once, NBC Nightly News also felt it was necessary to point out that Schneiderman belonged to the Democratic Party. “His downfall, all the more mind-boggling, because Schneiderman, a Democrat, publicly was a champion of women, suing Harvey Weinstein for sexually harassing employees,” reported Anne Thompson.

It wasn’t like ABC was pressed for time because they gave it an entire report and had ample opportunity to note that detail. “New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman is out of a job tonight after a New Yorker investigation detailed allegations of violence and abuse by seven women he'd been involved with,” announced anchor David Muir as the segment began.

And as ABC reporter Linsey David’s report started, she led off by bizarrely describing Schneiderman as a “casualty.” “New York’s highest-ranking law enforcement officer dethroned tonight, another casualty from the #MeToo movement he so vehemently supported,” she said.

As for the major Spanish-language networks, Univision ran a two-minutes-and-15-seconds-long report and failed to mention Schneiderman's party affiliation. Meanwhile at Telemundo, they ran a 45-second-long news brief and managed to fit in the fact he was a Democrat.

It’s very disappointing that ABC would continue to play the typical partisan games while covering something so disturbing. If the parties were reversed, there’s no doubt they would have noted he was Republican several times and ask for reaction from his colleagues.

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