Washington state’s two major candidates for the Senate don’t have much in common. But one trait they apparently do share is a penchant for ducking questions from Dana Bash.

In separate interviews on CNN’s State of the Union Sunday,Bash pressed both Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) and her Republican opponent Tiffany Smiley after they attempted to give her the runaround when confronted with inconvenient questions.

Smiley was up first, and Bash asked her to state that President Joe Biden was legitimately elected.

“Yes, he’s our president,” Smiley said. “And to be clear, I think in 2016 Hillary Clinton had concerns [about election integrity]. Stacey Abrams had concerns. This is an issue on both sides of the aisle. This isn’t a Democrat or Republican issue."

Smiley tried to filibuster some more, but an unsatisfied Bash cut her off and continued to ask if Biden won the election legitimately.

Not to be outdone, Murray — in the very next segment — refused to state a clear position on her party’s highly-criticized practice of elevating election-denying Republicans in primary races because they are thought to be easier opponents for Democrats to defeat in general elections.

"That sounded like a yes," Bash concluded after Murray gave several long-winded responses to her questions on the practice.

In November 2020, a Fox News producer sounded the alarm on the false election claims being made on the network, particularly calling out host Jeanine Pirro and urging she not be put back on the air.

NPR’s David Folkenflik first reported on the producer’s email, which appears to have been leaked from the discovery of evidence acquired by Dominion voting systems – the company suing Fox News and its parent company for $1.6 billion in damages.

Pirro has since been made a co-host on cable news’s most-watched show The Five.

A Fox News spokesperson argued to NPR that at the time Fox News hosts “were covering the most newsworthy story of that period — the president of the United States claiming election fraud.”

Additionally, Dan Webb, Fox News’ attorney on the Dominion lawsuit, also argued that Fox News was covering Trump’s allegations.

Pirro, however, did not just cover the story, but flagged Dominion of being "allegedly capable of flipping votes," on November 14th, 2020 -- the same day Fox News officially called the election for President Joe Biden.

It's bad enough that Pirro embraced Trump's stolen election claims, and is one of the hosts targeted by a lawsuit against Fox News for enabling those lies. The fact that a Fox News producer was sounding the alarm on her being on the air is very bad.