Veteran news anchor Bob Schieffer: Presidential election was a 'stain on everything and everyone' [View all]
Veteran TV news anchor Bob Schieffer said Wednesday in Dallas that the presidential campaign "left a stain on everything and everyone that it touched."
"I'm not sure anyone or any institution came out of this campaign looking the better for it," he said.
Schieffer, a Texan who has covered every presidential election since 1964, gave his autopsy of the 2016 race in a discussion with his colleague, CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley, who is also a Texan. The event was part of the Dallas Citizens Council's annual meeting at the Dallas Omni Hotel.
Former Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison introduced the pair and called the 2016 campaign "a presidential election that defies description."
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