CNN panelists appeared baffled by the certainty with which analyst <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/bakari-sellers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Bakari Sellers</a> claimed that President <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> was likely to face a challenger going into the 2024 Democratic primary election.
While anchors <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/don-lemon/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Don Lemon</a> and <a href="http://www.dailywire.com/topic/kaitlan-collins/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kaitlan Collins</a> seemed to agree with part of Sellers&#8217; assessment — namely that Biden might decide against taking on the rigors of another campaign — they were less convinced that the Democratic Party would push other serious contenders to the forefront if he was still running.
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Noting that President Biden has not wavered from his initial claim — that he intends &#8220;to run&#8221; for re-election in 2024 — analyst Paul Begala added, &#8220;Why wouldn’t he? You have to ask somebody else, I think he&#8217;s doing a great job. I&#8217;m a – kind of a Biden guy, I like what he&#8217;s doing.&#8221;
Begala went on to say that there had been &#8220;a lot of emerging new stars&#8221; in the Democratic Party, however, suggesting that if Biden were to bow out, the party had enough depth to work around that.
&#8220;Why wouldn’t he is because of the toil of the campaign,&#8221; Sellers began, noting that COVID had actually taken away some of the typical campaign pressures because it allowed Biden to avoid a lot of the ground-game staples that previous and future campaigns would likely require. &#8220;I mean, the campaign is a monster in itself.&#8221;
&#8220;I’m not saying that he can’t do it,&#8221; Seller continued. &#8220;The question he has to answer is, does he want to go through that, and go through, you know, primary debates? Because he’s going to be primaried. That’s a fact. That, we’re new age Democrats. Now, I’m going to support him in that primary, but he’s going be …&#8221;
&#8220;You think he’s going to get primaried?&#8221; Collins asked.
&#8220;Of course!&#8221; Sellers was adamant.
&#8220;By a serious candidate?&#8221; Begala appeared unconvinced.
&#8220;Did Hillary Clinton get primaried?&#8221; Sellers offered.
&#8220;Hillary wasn’t an incumbent …&#8221; Begala protested.
&#8220;She wasn’t an incumbent president,&#8221; Collins agreed.
&#8220;It doesn’t even matter if the candidate is serious or not. There’s going to be somebody …&#8221; Sellers tried again.
Begala continued to push back, saying that former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton hadn&#8217;t been primaried when they were incumbent presidents.
&#8220;There’s going to be somebody, there’s going to be somebody,&#8221; Sellers insisted. &#8220;This is, this is not Bill Clinton or Barack Obama’s Democratic Party anymore. I wish it was. There are a lot of, there are a lot of us who are going to support Joe Biden.&#8221;
&#8220;But who would primary him?&#8221; Collins pressed.
&#8220;I feel firm in the belief that he’ll get primaried from the Left,&#8221; Sellers said, arguing that Biden was likely to face a challenge from the far Left, from someone who felt that his policies had not gone far enough.
Sellers is not the only one exploring the possibility that the Democrats could put up a candidate who is not Joe Biden in 2024 — three weeks ahead of Tuesday&#8217;s midterms, The Washington Post put out a <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/10/15/top-ten-democrats-2024-ranked/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">top-ten ranked list</a> of potential Democratic candidates — and while Biden was ranked first, the list also included Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Vice President Kamala Harris, California Governor Gavin Newsom, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY).

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While &#8220;white supremacy&#8221; did not start with Donald Trump, it has been &#8220;magnified&#8221; by him, said CNN&#8217;s Bakari Sellers on Sunday as a <a href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1708/20/sotu.01.html">State of the Union</a> panelist.
White people have a unique responsibility to end &#8220;white supremacy,&#8221; said Sellers. 
&#8220;White supremacy is not new. It didn&#8217;t start with Donald Trump. It has been magnified and lifted up and put on another playing field,&#8221; said Sellers.
&#8220;But I don&#8217;t think anything has necessarily changed. It won&#8217;t change until individuals who don&#8217;t look like Nina and I decide that enough is enough,&#8221; he said, referencing his fellow African-American panelist.
&#8220;I hope that individuals, especially white evangelicals, in the United States of America decide to stand up and say enough is enough, and Donald Trump is perverting in giving these individuals a platform and he should not. That&#8217;s all we&#8217;re asking for,&#8221; Sellers said. 
Tapper and the other panelists offered no pushback to any of Sellers&#8217; assertions.
Watch Sellers&#8217; comments below.
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TAPPER: Bakari Sellers, let me ask you. Do you think that it&#8217;s true that everything changed for the country last weekend?
SELLERS: Well, I think it was a tragic day for the country.
But white supremacy is not new. It didn&#8217;t start with Donald Trump. It has been magnified and lift up and put on another playing field.
But I don&#8217;t think anything has necessarily changed. It won&#8217;t change until individuals who don&#8217;t look like Nina and I decide that enough is enough. This isn&#8217;t a partisan issue.
And so many people confuse patriotism and prejudice. And what we saw on display was so much prejudice. And I hope that individuals especially white evangelicals in the United States of America decide to stand up and say enough is enough and Donald Trump is perverting in giving these individuals a platform and he should not.
That&#8217;s all we&#8217;re asking for.
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CNN regularly hypes &#8220;white supremacy&#8221; as a powerful social force in contemporary America, linking it to conservatism, right-wing politics, libertarianism, and other dissident movements opposed to the Left.

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&#8220;What [Donald Trump Jr.] did was a threat to our democracy and borderline treason,&#8221; said CNN&#8217;s Bakari Sellers as a guest panelist on Sunday&#8217;s <a href="http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1707/16/sotu.01.html">State of the Union</a>.

Republicans must battle the &#8220;threat against our democracy,&#8221; said Sellers in pushing the &#8220;election hacking&#8221; narrative:

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You know, I don&#8217;t hear the outrage from my Republican colleagues that I believe that this Russia investigation deserves. I mean, I think that we are talking about a legitimate threat against our democracy.

I mean, I like to play the what if game. What if Barack Obama, you know, did this or what if Hillary Clinton did this, you know?

Ken Cuccinelli would be red in the face and he would be running around with pitch forks in Washington, D.C. But we don&#8217;t see that same outrage because it&#8217;s Donald Trump and he&#8217;s able to meander his way in and out of lives.

And so, I think the Democrats can talk about the 23 million people that are going to be kicked off health care. And we can also say that Donald Trump Jr. what he did was a threat to our democracy and borderline treason.
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Watch Sellers&#8217; comments below.

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None of Sellers&#8217; counterparts &#8212; neither State of the Union host Jake Tapper nor the show&#8217;s guest panelists &#8212; challenged the framing of Donald Trump Jr.&#8217;s conduct as &#8220;borderline treason.&#8221;

CNN markets its pundits as &#8220;the best political team on television.&#8221;

Sellers regularly pushes interrelated narratives framing 2016&#8217;s presidential election as compromised by &#8220;election hacking&#8221; via &#8220;collusion&#8221; between Donald Trump and the Russian state:

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&#8220;Thirteen all-white males in the back room&#8221; are drafting federal health care and insurance policy, CNN&#8217;s Bakari Sellers said on Sunday&#8217;s <a href="http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1706/18/sotu.01.html">State of the Union</a>, lamenting the racial and sex composition of certain Republican legislators.

&#8220;The Republican party right now is trying to take away health insurance from 23 million people and they are literally drafting up a piece of legislation that affects one-sixth of our economy under the cover of darkness, which is 13 all white males in the back room,&#8221; said Sellers, describing Republican proposals as a &#8220;travesty of justice.&#8221;

Moments earlier, Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-MI) expressed similar resentment, implicitly calling for political quotas based on sex: &#8220;Right now, you&#8217;ve got thirteen men writing a bill that&#8217;s gonna affect more than 50% of the population is women.&#8221; 
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State of the Union host, Jake Tapper, was silent on his panelists&#8217; lamentations regarding racial and sex quotas for politicians. Neither Rick Santorum nor Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) &#8212; also panelists for the discussion &#8212; responded to either Sellers&#8217; or Dingell&#8217;s racial or gender-based agitation.

Tapper presents himself as a politically objective and non-partisan news media figure. CNN similarly presents itself as a politically objective and non-partisan news media outlet, billing itself as &#8220;The Most Trust Name In News.&#8221;
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Left-wing CNN pundit Ana Navarro &#8211; who describes herself as a Republican &#8211; called on the GOP to oppose President Donald Trump’s <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/25/executive-order-border-security-and-immigration-enforcement-improvements">executive order</a> regarding restrictions on the admission of foreigners from seven Muslim-majority states.
Teed up by left-wing CNN Democrat Jake Tapper to demand Republican opposition to Trump’s executive order, Navarro described Republicans as “emotionally [exhausted]&#8221; while pushing left-wing and partisan Democrat talking points:
<blockquote>“You know, I think people are exhausted. I think a lot of Republicans are exhausted. The flurry of activity this week has been really a dizzying pace. It’s so hard to keep up. And so many of them have been speaking out consistently this week: against the charge that there were three million illegal voters, against the tariffs against Mexico, against the idea of the wall, against not investigating Russia for hacking. So I think it’s such a, you know, steady rain of things that they have to confront Trump on that it’s been kind of an emotionally exhausting week.”</blockquote>
Navarro then claimed Republican politicians were privately speaking with her in opposition to Trump’s “extreme vetting&#8221; as a violation of &#8220;American values&#8221;:
<blockquote>“I have friends telling me, &#8216;I disagree with this. It is an un-American executive order. But I can’t survive politically if I am confronting the man every day.&#8217; But this is one, where, as exhausted as they may be, Republicans need to appeal to their sense of consciousness, to their principles, to what is right and wrong, to American values, and they need to speak up.”</blockquote>
Navarro ended her soliloquy with an emotional appeal to “family unity,&#8221; which included the name-dropping of white nationalist, David Duke:
<blockquote>“The Republican Party I grew up in is a Republican Party of family unity. What we saw yesterday were families being torn apart. What we saw yesterday was violations of the Constitution. We don’t treat different people different ways. We don’t impose a religious test. And the folks may want to tell us this is not a Muslim ban. I’ll tell you who thinks it’s a Muslim ban. Muslims think it’s a Muslim ban. Those who want a Muslim ban like little boy Flynn and David Duke, the former KKK leader, are celebrating it as a Muslim ban. And those of us who don’t want a Muslim ban see it as such.”</blockquote>
Bakari Sellers &#8211; who departs from most of his CNN colleagues by being open about his left-wing and partisan Democrat politics &#8211; joined Navarro’s lamentations, saying he now &#8220;[feels] like a Muslim&#8221;:
<blockquote>“The fact is, there are a lot of people in this country who feel persecuted by [Trump’s executive order]. Even more importantly, it’s a religious test in there, because it says if you are a religious minority in a Muslim-majority, that you somehow get precedence. I mean today, I mean, I feel like I’m a Muslim. Today, I feel like I’m a refugee, because as Dr. King said, ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.’ And I think that that is what you’re seeing around the country, that is why people are so upset.&#8221;</blockquote>
At no point did any of the panelists acknowledge the overlap between Islamic terrorism and Muslims. At no point in the discussion was &#8220;Islamic terrorism&#8221; mentioned by any of the panelists.
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