CNN host Abby Phillip shared a post highlighting the recent ratings logged by her show, &#8220;CNN NewsNight&#8221; — and her critics quickly pointed out that what truly made her show a standout on the cable news network was her regular inclusion of popular Republican commentator Scott Jennings.
Phillip posted an excerpt from a CNN public relations release showing that her broadcast was the network&#8217;s top performer in the coveted 25-54 age demographic for three months running — and that her audience was growing. She said (emphasis hers), &#8220;NewsNight with Abby Phillip continues to be a standout performer for CNN, ranking as the network’s most watched program among P25-54 for the third consecutive month. Further, NewsNight grew by impressive, double-digit margins year-over-year among both demos.&#8221;
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&#8220;NewsNight with Abby Phillip continues to be a standout performer for CNN, ranking as the network’s most watched program among P25-54 for the third consecutive month. Further, NewsNight grew by impressive, double-digit margins year-over-year among both demos.&#8221;…
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) <a href="https://twitter.com/abbydphillip/status/1917377118951952871?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
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But critics responded to her post, arguing that it was Jennings — who often employs a Jim Halpern (&#8220;The Office&#8221;) style camera stare to great effect — and his sharp but civil commentary that was really bringing in the viewers for whom she was taking credit.
&#8220;Thanks solely to @ScottJenningsKY,&#8221; Tomi Lahren posted.
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Thanks solely to <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ScottJenningsKY</a>
— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) <a href="https://twitter.com/TomiLahren/status/1917410286644125816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Two words: Scott and Jennings,&#8221; another said.
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Two words: Scott and Jennings
— Chris Stigall (@ChrisStigall) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisStigall/status/1917620491650507108?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Great job, @ScottJenningsKY! You’ve driven the ratings up on this show significantly!&#8221; Matt Boyle added.
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Great job <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ScottJenningsKY</a> ! You’ve driven the ratings up on this show significantly! <a href="https://t.co/Iyf66mAE9h">https://t.co/Iyf66mAE9h</a>
— Matthew Boyle (@mboyle1) <a href="https://twitter.com/mboyle1/status/1917569344059630039?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Our audience knows exactly why and his name is Scaaaaahhht Jennings,&#8221; Chicks on the Right posted.
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Our audience knows exactly why and his name is Scaaaaahhht Jennings. <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ScottJenningsKY</a> <a href="https://t.co/SoRb4mbNAz">https://t.co/SoRb4mbNAz</a>
— Chicks On The Right (@chicksonright) <a href="https://twitter.com/chicksonright/status/1917583657901998272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
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I wonder why, um&#8230; what&#8217;s your name again? <a href="https://t.co/0BmfHmIglO">https://t.co/0BmfHmIglO</a> <a href="https://t.co/7RIPWjXseu">pic.twitter.com/7RIPWjXseu</a>
— 𝕯ug (@DugShrugged) <a href="https://twitter.com/DugShrugged/status/1917569914707058709?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 30, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Even popular liberal radio host Charlamagne tha God admitted that he was a fan of the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/charlamagne-tha-god-admits-hes-a-fan-of-one-cnn-republican" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GOP commentator</a>, saying, &#8220;I wish they had more people like Scott Jennings though. Because I feel like Scott Jennings really, really does take it serious, even though he holds his side down. I think a lot of times, they have Republicans on here who are just there just to throw grenades, just to cause the conflict. But Scott actually — I think Scott actually gives a f*** a little bit, you know what I mean? A lot of bit actually.&#8221;

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CNN Host Touts Network’s Best Show — Gets Reminded Viewers Aren’t Watching For Her

CNN Host Touts Network’s Best Show — Gets Reminded Viewers Aren't Watching For Her

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Democrats and their media counterparts did their level best on Sunday to convince viewers that President Donald Trump had crossed the line they&#8217;ve all been clutching their pearls over for weeks and deported American citizens — minor children, no less. But as Secretary of State Marco Rubio explained, that is not at all what transpired.
For those who don&#8217;t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week&#8217;s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.
The discussion around illegal immigration — and President Trump&#8217;s ambitious mass deportation plan — has been contentious since long before he won reelection in November of 2024. And as his administration began to make good on his promises to deport illegal aliens in large numbers — beginning with those who had committed crimes in addition to crossing the border illegally — poll numbers backed his play as a majority of Americans said they were in favor of all illegal aliens facing deportation.
But opponents of his policies have thrown caution to the wind as they back the illegals instead, taking up the cause of an illegal immigrant member of a transnational gang and defending a judge who has been charged with crimes related to assisting an illegal immigrant in evading capture. When they learned that three children, aged two, four, and seven — who are American citizens — were relocated with their illegal immigrant mother when she was deported, they thought they finally had the narrative that so many had been predicting.
MSNBC host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/msnbc-host-says-black-american-citizens-next-in-line-if-deportations-are-allowed-to-continue" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Symone Sanders-Townsend</a> said just a week prior that the deportation of Salvadoran national and MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia was proof that the Trump administration would eventually come for American citizens. She also argued that he would start with communities of color.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whoopi-claims-that-if-trump-can-deport-terrorists-he-can-deport-any-one-of-us" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Whoopi Goldberg</a> claimed a month earlier on ABC&#8217;s &#8220;The View&#8221; that the Trump administration could come for anyone if they could deport terrorists. &#8220;You just gotta keep your eyes open, y’all,&#8221; she warned, going on to imply that even American citizens were at risk of deportation. &#8220;Because if they can just come up and take somebody because they’ve made a decision that you’re supposed to be that person, any one of us could find ourselves being deported to some country when we’ve never been there.&#8221;
By Sunday morning, the narrative was set: Trump&#8217;s Department of Homeland Security was deporting minor children who were American citizens.
On CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face the Nation,&#8221; host Margaret Brennan blindsided Border Czar Tom Homan, who said he did not know about that specific case, with the story.
&#8220;On Friday, there were three American citizen children, born here, who were deported along with their mothers from Louisiana down to Honduras,&#8221; Brennan began, noting that one of the three children was a four-year-old who had stage-four cancer and saying that the child had been sent to Honduras without being allowed to first speak with a doctor &#8220;and without medication.&#8221;
&#8220;I understand this child&#8217;s mother entered this country illegally, but isn&#8217;t there some basis for compassionate consideration here that should have allowed for more consultation or treatment?&#8221; Brennan asked.
Homan objected to Brennan&#8217;s framing of the question, saying that he was not familiar with the specific case but adding, &#8220;No U.S. citizen child was deported.&#8221;
&#8220;The mother was deported along with the children,&#8221; Brennan insisted.
&#8220;The children aren&#8217;t deported,&#8221; Homan said again. &#8220;The mother chose to take the children with her.&#8221;
&#8220;Having a U.S. citizen child after you enter this country illegally is not a get out of jail free card. It doesn&#8217;t make you immune from our laws,&#8221; he added.
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White House &quot;border czar&quot; Tom Homan says he is not aware of the case last week when a mother who had entered the U.S. illegally was deported to Honduras with her 4-year-old child who has stage-four cancer. But he adds: &quot;Having a U.S. citizen child after you enter this country… <a href="https://t.co/aEr57Y5Ga2">pic.twitter.com/aEr57Y5Ga2</a>
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&#8220;Having a U.S. citizen child doesn&#8217;t make you immune from our laws of the country. American families get separated every day by law enforcement,&#8221; Homan repeated, saying that the mothers in question had received due process and had chosen to take their children with them when they were removed from the United States.
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White House &quot;border czar&quot; Tom Homan says he disagrees with the federal judge who said there was &quot;no meaningful process&quot; behind the deportation of a woman to Honduras with her children, one of whom is a 2-year-old U.S. citizen. He says the woman &quot;had due process&quot; and decided to… <a href="https://t.co/WR3wDZ7Ouj">pic.twitter.com/WR3wDZ7Ouj</a>
&mdash; Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1916527787109687485?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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CNN&#8217;s Dana Bash used the same framing on &#8220;State of the Union,&#8221; posing a question to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer about the &#8220;three American citizen children&#8221; who &#8220;were deported with their families, including one suffering from metastatic cancer.&#8221;
Schumer used the opportunity to claim that the Trump administration was violating due process by deporting illegal aliens whose presence in the United States is in itself a violation of the immigration process.
&#8220;Due process is a hallmark of what our country is all about, the rule of law, and ICE and Trump seem to break it in every single way. He believes he’s a king. He is not, and the American people are totally against what he is doing in this regard,&#8221; Schumer claimed — despite <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-pollster-admits-most-americans-side-with-trump-on-illegals-want-them-all-deported" target="_blank" rel="noopener">polling data</a> that says the people are, in fact, in favor of mass deportations.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/SenSchumer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenSchumer</a> responds to reports that the Trump administration deported three US citizen children with their families: “Due process is a hallmark of what our country is all about, the rule of law, and ICE and Trump seem to break it in every single way. He believes he’s a king. He… <a href="https://t.co/zYwaMEpyCC">pic.twitter.com/zYwaMEpyCC</a>
&mdash; State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1916487619761803332?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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And on NBC News&#8217; &#8220;Meet the Press,&#8221; host Kristen Welker tried the exact same set-up with Secretary of State <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/thats-just-not-true-rubio-spars-with-nbc-host-over-claim-american-kids-were-deported" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rubio</a> — even after he explained, as Homan had, that it was the illegal alien mothers who were subject to the deportation orders and the children were simply taken with them when they were removed from the country. He noted that for the children, because of their citizenship status, there was no bar for reentry to the United States for them.
Welker pushed back anyway, asking, &#8220;Is it the U.S. policy to deport children, even U.S. citizens, with their families — and I hear what you’re saying — without due process, just to be very clear?&#8221;
“No, no, no,” Rubio objected. “No, no, again: if someone’s in the country unlawfully, illegally, that person gets deported. If that person is with a two-year-old child, or has a two-year-old child, and says, ‘I want to take my child with me,’ well then what —? You have two choices. You can say, ‘Yes, of course you can take your child, whether they’re a citizen or not, because it’s your child.’ Or you can say, ‘Yes, you can go, but your child must stay behind.&#8217;”
Rubio noted that would create a whole new problem, saying, “And then your headlines would read, ‘U.S. holding hostage two-year-old, four-year-old, seven-year-old, while mother deported.’ The parents make that choice.”
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&quot;We have to make a determination about whether this is an endeavor that we want to continue to be involved in,&quot; says <a href="https://twitter.com/SecRubio?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SecRubio</a> on negotiations around Ukraine.
&quot;There are reasons to be optimistic, but there are reasons to be realistic&#8230; We&#39;re close, but we&#39;re not close enough.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/BtVrodmRUy">pic.twitter.com/BtVrodmRUy</a>
&mdash; Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapidResponse47/status/1916480429235769647?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Border Czar Homan Speaks To Media At White House

Spin Cycle: Dems, Media Desperate To Convince Everyone That Trump Is ‘Deporting Americans’

Spin Cycle: Dems, Media Desperate To Convince Everyone That Trump Is 'Deporting Americans'

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CNN’s primetime ratings on Wednesday dipped below 500,000 viewers, with less than 100,000 of those coming from the 25-54-year-old demographic.
CNN’s ratings dipped below 500,000 after 9 p.m. ET on Wednesday evening during “The Source with Kaitlan Collins,” according to <a href="https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/wednesday-april-23-2025-evening-cable-news-ratings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">AdWeek</a>. Collins pulled 464,000 total viewers while “NewsNight with Abby Phillip” in the 10 p.m. hour followed with 459,000. &#8220;Laura Coates Live&#8221; finished off primetime’s 11 p.m. hour for CNN with 269,000.
&#8220;Anderson Cooper 360&#8221; was the only primetime CNN performance with over half-a-million viewers, pulling in 535,000.
All the network’s primetime shows failed to break 100,000 viewers for the coveted 25-54 demographic. Cooper had the best showing with 93,000, then Phillip with 90,000, then Collins with 76,000, and Coates ended the night with just 46,000 viewers in the age group.
 The new numbers are a troubling sign for the network.
“CNN&#8217;s full-scale collapse continues rapidly. It reaches a remarkable new low led by @kaitlancollins and @abbydphillip: fewer than 500,000 viewers total in prime-time! That&#8217;s almost impossible to do even if you wanted it,” independent journalist Glenn Greenwald noted. “Also, they&#8217;re well below 100k for viewers under 55.”
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CNN&#39;s full-scale collapse continues rapidly. It reaches a remarkable new low led by <a href="https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kaitlancollins</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/abbydphillip?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@abbydphillip</a>: fewer than 500,000 viewers total in prime-time! That&#39;s almost impossible to do even if you wanted it.
Also, they&#39;re well below 100k for viewers under 55. <a href="https://t.co/4gG4jMWBTH">pic.twitter.com/4gG4jMWBTH</a>
&mdash; Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) <a href="https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1916501808047849477?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The best hour on CNN was still behind MSNBC’s worst hour and far below the worst hour on Fox News. “The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle” at 11 p.m. on MSNBC brought in 799,000 total viewers with 99,000 in the 25-54 demographic. Fox News’ “FOX News @ Night” with Trace Gallagher brought in over 1.5 million total viewers with 194,000 in the key demographic.
CNN has struggled with ratings for years. One week in November <a href="https://www.outkick.com/analysis/msnbc-cnn-setting-20-30-year-ratings-lows" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saw</a> the network mark its lowest-rated week since June 2001, bringing in an average of just 268,000 viewers. During the same week, Fox News averaged 1.4 million viewers.
In 2022, the failure of CNN+, the network’s shot at an online streaming service, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/24/business/media/cnn-plus-discovery-warner.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rocked</a> the outlet. Warner Bros. Discovery, CNN’s parent company, invested roughly $300 million into launching the online platform and brought on big names such as Chris Wallace to sustain it, only for it to collapse shortly after launch.
Several years before that collapse of CNN+, the outlet <a href="https://www.nationalreview.com/news/cnn-settles-lawsuit-brought-by-covington-catholic-student-nicholas-sandmann/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">settled</a> a $275 million lawsuit brought against it by Nicholas Sandmann, who was maligned by many in the media as a student of Covington Catholic High School in Kentucky when he was filmed in an incident with a Native American activist.

CNN Ratings Disaster: Primetime Audience Tumbles Below 500,000

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Axios reporter Alex Thompson was recognized on Saturday by the White House Correspondents Association, receiving the Aldo Beckman Award for Overall Excellence for his work in exposing how President Joe Biden&#8217;s &#8220;cognitive decline was impacting his ability to do his job — information the White House tried to conceal.&#8221;
Moderator and host of NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; Kristen Welker presented the award to Thompson — who co-authored a book on Biden&#8217;s decline with CNN anchor Jake Tapper — prompting critics to point out the fact that Biden&#8217;s decline had been obvious long before his disastrous CNN debate against President Donald Trump and long before Thompson published a single report on the topic.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/AlexThomp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AlexThomp</a>: &#8220;President Biden&#8217;s decline and its coverup by the people around him is a reminder that every White House regardless of party is capable of deception&#8230;We, myself included, missed a lot of this story and some people trust us less because of it.&#8221; <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/whcd?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#whcd</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/nerdprom?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#nerdprom</a> <a href="https://t.co/L9CtbB3HIZ">pic.twitter.com/L9CtbB3HIZ</a>
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&#8220;President Biden&#8217;s decline and its coverup by the people around him is a reminder that every White House regardless of party is capable of deception. But being truth tellers also means telling the truth about ourselves. We, myself included, missed a lot of this story and some people trust us less because of it,&#8221; Thompson said, suggesting that the blame for the coverup lay entirely with the Biden administration and that the press had been in the dark.
&#8220;We bear some responsibility for faith in the media being at such lows,&#8221; Thompson conceded, adding that honesty was required in order to rebuild trust. He went on to say that was doubly important because in the current climate, &#8220;people are struggling to figure out what&#8217;s true, and people with power are not telling the truth.&#8221;
&#8220;Alex and every single journalist cashing in on these sudden deceptive revelations has yet to explain this photograph,&#8221; Stephen L. Miller posted, sharing a picture of a Biden press briefing &#8220;cheat sheet&#8221; — complete with the reporter&#8217;s photo, name pronunciation key, and the question she was supposed to ask.
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Alex and every single journalist cashing in on these sudden deceptive revelations has yet to explain this photograph. <a href="https://t.co/QkdNeszKBg">pic.twitter.com/QkdNeszKBg</a>
&mdash; Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) <a href="https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1916322801322991692?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Why is it that everyone in America, if not the world, didn’t miss this story, but the one group of people who should have reported it (journalists), didn’t?&#8221; another posted.
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Why is it that everyone in America, if not the world, didn’t miss this story, but the one group of people who should have reported it (journalists), didn’t?
&mdash; Burt Macklin (@BurtMaclin_FBI) <a href="https://twitter.com/BurtMaclin_FBI/status/1916318937077219560?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;@kwelkernbc you all didn’t &#8216;miss&#8217; the story. You consciously chose to cover it up. The latter is much worse and one of many reasons you’ve completely lost public trust,&#8221; another posted.
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<a href="https://twitter.com/kwelkernbc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kwelkernbc</a> you all didn’t “miss” the story. 
You consciously chose to cover it up.
The latter is much worse and one of many reasons you’ve completely lost public trust.
&mdash; IT Guy (@ITGuy1959) <a href="https://twitter.com/ITGuy1959/status/1916479018846634034?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Hey @kwelkernbcnews, are you familiar with @nbcnews?&#8221; Larry O&#8217;Connor asked, sharing an NBC News headline that read, &#8220;Misleading GOP videos of Biden are going viral. The fact-checks have trouble keeping up.&#8221;
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Hey <a href="https://twitter.com/kwelkernbc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@kwelkernbc</a>, are you familiar with <a href="https://twitter.com/NBCNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NBCNews</a>? <a href="https://t.co/xTfhIRqeWp">https://t.co/xTfhIRqeWp</a> <a href="https://t.co/yBahvyWeOD">pic.twitter.com/yBahvyWeOD</a>
— L A R R Y (@LarryOConnor) <a href="https://twitter.com/LarryOConnor/status/1916466070723891425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;It. Wasn’t. &#8216;Deception.&#8217; YEARS before Alex hitched his wagon to Jake Tapper to sell books, I wrote entire one in 2022 on Biden’s brain turning to applesauce. Enough of this ridiculous narrative already of the press playing the victim of being deceived. YOU ALL KNEW,&#8221; Joe Concha declared.
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It. Wasn’t. “Deception.” 
YEARS before Alex hitched his wagon to Jake Tapper to sell books, I wrote entire one in 2022 on Biden’s brain turning to applesauce. 
Enough of this ridiculous narrative already of the press playing the victim of being deceived. YOU ALL KNEW. <a href="https://t.co/sPq0pKFRjG">https://t.co/sPq0pKFRjG</a> <a href="https://t.co/PJjwL9hNXz">pic.twitter.com/PJjwL9hNXz</a>
&mdash; Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) <a href="https://twitter.com/JoeConchaTV/status/1916467497403899965?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 27, 2025</a></blockquote>
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G20 Leaders’ Summit in Rio De Janeiro

Irony Meters Explode Over Award Presented At WHCD — And What It Was For

Axios

Debate

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White House Correspondents’ Dinner

CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten painted a dismal picture for Democrats — in particular for Democratic leadership on Capitol Hill — suggesting during a Thursday appearance that the bottom has effectively dropped out for the minority party.
Enten joined anchor John Berman on &#8220;CNN News Central,&#8221; where he highlighted a dramatic drop-off in the overall approval ratings of top Democrats — especially when it came to their handling of the economy in the months since President Donald Trump returned to the White House.
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🚨NEW: CNN&#39;s Harry Enten says he thinks there&#39;s &quot;REVOLT&quot; occurring within Dem Party🚨
&quot;Democrats on Dem leaders in Congress — the belief that they will do the right thing when it comes to the economy — last year at this time, 80% believed that the Democratic leaders in Congress… <a href="https://t.co/BdKJ6FYKqN">pic.twitter.com/BdKJ6FYKqN</a>
&mdash; Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/JasonJournoDC/status/1915447865343610883?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;This, I think, is a revolt, a revolt that is going on within the Democratic Party right now, Democrats and their leaders,&#8221; Enten said, noting that the poor poll numbers were reflective of Democratic voters not having any confidence in the leadership of their own party.
&#8220;I mean, take a look nationally. Democrats on Dem leaders in Congress — the belief that they will do the right thing when it comes to the economy — last year at this time, 80% believed that the Democratic leaders in Congress would do the right thing when it comes to the economy,&#8221; Enten said reiterating again the fact that these numbers were reflective of what Democrats thought of their own party&#8217;s leadership.
&#8220;Look at where we are now. That number has been slashed in half — to just 39%. Holy Toledo,&#8221; Enten exclaimed. &#8220;That is the lowest number by far in Gallup polling. The lowest previous was just 60%, which is 21 points higher than this.&#8221;
&#8220;Democrats hate, hate, hate, hate what their congressional leaders in Washington are doing right now on the key issue of the day, the economy. And their confidence has fallen through the floor,&#8221; he concluded.
Enten also pointed to recent polling that could spell disaster for Senate Minority Leader <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-data-guru-its-time-for-chuck-schumer-to-panic-sirens-should-be-going-off" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chuck Schumer</a>, noting that the longtime party leader was struggling to keep the approval of even half of Democrats in his home state. Schumer recently broke with his House counterpart — Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) — on a bipartisan spending bill to avoid a government shutdown, prompting backlash from within the party.
The Democratic National Committee (DNC) is also in disarray since newly-elected Vice Chair <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-dnc-leader-david-hogg-says-hell-push-primaries-against-some-in-his-own-party" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Hogg</a> announced his plan to use Leaders We Deserve — an organization he founded — to funnel $20 million into <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/dnc-chief-warns-david-hogg-if-you-challenge-dem-incumbents-leave-dnc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">primary challenges</a> for &#8220;out of touch&#8221; Democrats. Jeffries pushed back during a Sunday interview, saying he planned to support every incumbent Democrat, and longtime Democratic strategist <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-honeymoon-is-over-longtime-dem-strategist-trashes-contemptible-little-twerp-david-hogg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">James Carville</a> suggested that the DNC could sue Hogg for working against the party&#8217;s interests.
Meanwhile, Senate Minority Whip <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/no-2-senate-democrat-dick-durbin-to-retire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dick Durbin</a> (D-IL) may have seen the writing on the wall — he announced on Wednesday that he did not plan to seek reelection.

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‘Holy Toledo’: The Bottom Has Dropped Out For Democrat Leadership, CNN Pollster Says

'Holy Toledo': CNN Pollster Says The Bottom Has Dropped Out For Democrat Leadership

Chuck Schumer

Democrats

Hakeem Jeffries

Polls

CNN&#8217;s resident pollster Harry Enten raised the big red flags as he broke down the latest numbers for Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) — who has held one of New York&#8217;s two Senate seats since 1999 — noting that the Democratic leader&#8217;s future looks far from secure.
Enten, whose official job title is chief data analyst, joined anchor John Berman on Thursday&#8217;s broadcast of CNN News Central — and he laid out the details of a Siena College poll, explaining why those numbers should be setting off alarm bells for Schumer and his team.
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&quot;Should Schumer stay as Senate leader? According to New York Democrats, just 50% say yes &#8230; 48% say no. This screams — sirens should be going off. Primary challenge. Primary… <a href="https://t.co/q1synv0V6y">pic.twitter.com/q1synv0V6y</a>
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&#8220;New York Democrats on Chuck Schumer — view him favorably in December of 2024. That was just a few months ago — it was 73%. Look at where that number has fallen to in just a few months. It is now down to just 52%,&#8221; Enten explained, adding, &#8220;That is the lowest I could ever find in Siena College on how Democrats in Chuck Schumer’s home state view him.&#8221;
&#8220;And keep in mind, if you’re thinking about a primary challenge, it would be a few years away — but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s favorable rating among Democrats is considerably higher, in the 60s. So he is doing quite poorly in his own home state of New York,&#8221; Enten continued. &#8220;I never thought I’d see the day in which just 52% of New York Democrats view Chuck Schumer favorably. It’s almost unfathomable.&#8221;
Enten went on to note that other poll questions had given equally bad news for the New York Democrat — who has led the Senate Democratic Caucus since 2017 and was the Senate Majority Leader for the last four years.
&#8220;They simply don’t like the job he’s doing as Senate leader. I mean, look at this — should Schumer stay as Senate leader? Again, according to New York Democrats, just 50% say yes. Look at this number — 48% say no,&#8221; he added. &#8220;This screams — sirens should be going off. Primary challenge. Primary challenge. Primary challenge. When you’re a Democrat in New York and these are your ratings — this is a big wake-up call if you’re Chuck Schumer.&#8221;

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CNN Data Guru: It’s Time For Chuck Schumer To Panic, ‘Sirens Should Be Going Off’

CNN Data Guru: It's Time For Chuck Schumer To Panic, 'Sirens Should Be Going Off'

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Elections

New York

CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings laid into comedian Larry David (&#8220;Curb Your Enthusiasm&#8221;) during a recent panel discussion, arguing that he was using his platform to shut down political discourse and bully other Democrats into silence.
Jennings referenced a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/larry-david-whines-about-bill-maher-giving-donald-trump-a-chance-with-trite-hitler-comparison" target="_blank" rel="noopener">recent op-ed</a> David wrote — in which he suggested that comedian Bill Maher having dinner with President Donald Trump was no different than having dinner with Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler — and argued that David&#8217;s goal was not so much to shame Maher as it was to issue a warning to anyone who might have considered meeting with Trump in the future.
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&#8220;The message of this is not to — because Bill Maher, first of all, I totally agree, he&#8217;s totally in the right to do it,&#8221; Jennings began, saying that while he certainly disagreed with Maher on a wide range of political issues, he felt the HBO host was right to encourage dialogue with people who have different political views. &#8220;I loved his monologue, even thought I disagree with almost everything he believes politically, he ws right to do this and he was right to speak out about it.&#8221;
&#8220;But this isn&#8217;t about that dinner. It&#8217;s about the next one,&#8221; Jennings continued. &#8220;Because this is the modern Left. It&#8217;s an attempt always to intimidate people into not ever doing it again. It&#8217;s to silence yourselves, or we&#8217;ll do it for you. That&#8217;s the purpose of this op-ed, so that the next comedian, or the next person on the American left chooses not to speak to Donald Trump.&#8221;
&#8220;This isn&#8217;t — this is all an effort to get people not to do what you just said, which is to talk to each other and our political leaders,&#8221; he concluded.
Maher <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/im-telling-you-it-happened-bill-maher-reveals-what-was-said-during-private-dinner-with-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">met with Trump</a> at the behest of mutual friend Kid Rock, and later delivered a monologue describing just how different the president had been in person than he was on the public stage. The comedian did not hold back the criticism, however, and argued that he&#8217;d prefer to see the private version of Trump take on the public-facing role.

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CNN Republican Torches Larry David’s ‘Dinner With Hitler’ Column Attacking Bill Maher

CNN Republican Torches Larry David's 'Dinner With Hitler' Column Attacking Bill Maher

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Larry David

Democrats and their media surrogates were clearly back on their heels Sunday as they attempted to simultaneously defend efforts to retrieve deported illegal alien and suspected MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego-Garcia and fight their way out of increasingly dismal approval ratings.
For those who don&#8217;t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week&#8217;s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.
Sunday&#8217;s spin was largely focused on Abrego-Garcia — as Democrats and Republicans split on whether the illegal alien, who had been living in Maryland despite a legal deportation order issued in 2019, had been denied due process — and Senator Chris Van Hollen&#8217;s (D-MD) trip to El Salvador on his behalf.
But Democrats also have to contend with the fact that their party is increasingly unpopular even with their own base — and that members of the party do not agree on what&#8217;s causing that problem or <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-honeymoon-is-over-longtime-dem-strategist-trashes-contemptible-little-twerp-david-hogg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">how to fix it</a>. Newly-elected Democratic National Committee Vice Chair David Hogg announced early in the week that his organization, Leaders We Deserve, planned to dump $20 million into primary challenges against aging Democrats.
Hogg&#8217;s announcement prompted the ire of longtime Democratic strategist James Carville, who referred to the DNC Vice Chair as a &#8220;contemptible little twerp&#8221; and suggested that the DNC could sue him for working against the party&#8217;s interests. Hogg fired back, saying that Carville had not won an election since before he was born.
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🔥HOGG vs. CARVILLE feud heats up: Hogg tears into Carville for calling him “a contemptible little twerp.&quot;
&quot;James Carville has not won an election since before I was born. These are the same ones that had $2 billion to win an election and still lost.&quot;
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Rep. James Coburn (D-SC) made an appearance on MSNBC, where he claimed that there was nothing wrong with his party&#8217;s message and that depressingly low approval ratings were due to legacy media failing to promote that message heavily enough.
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🚨Clyburn: Democrats have a great message. The reason they&#39;re having problems is because the media isn’t leftwing enough. <a href="https://t.co/tsb0cvn4bW">pic.twitter.com/tsb0cvn4bW</a>
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Complicating matters even further are recent polls that indicate more and more Americans are siding with President Donald Trump on illegal immigration, with a majority of voters <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-pollster-admits-most-americans-side-with-trump-on-illegals-want-them-all-deported" target="_blank" rel="noopener">favoring the deportation</a> of all illegal immigrants.
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Immigration is &quot;where Trump wants the focus&#8230; Pretty, pretty please with a cherry on top.&quot; 
-His net approval on immigration is positive
-A plurality say under Trump immigration policy is on the right track (unlike under Biden)
-Most want all undocumented immigrants deported <a href="https://t.co/5RbgJPjW7D">pic.twitter.com/5RbgJPjW7D</a>
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By Sunday, Van Hollen had returned from his humanitarian mission to visit deported illegal alien Abrego-Garcia in El Salvador — so his next order of business was a netw0rk-by-network tour to talk about it.
On ABC News&#8217; &#8220;This Week,&#8221; Van Hollen leaned into the assertion that Abrego-Garcia had been denied due process and attempted to spin the trip solely as an effort to defend the illegal&#8217;s rights.
&#8220;I am not defending the man. I&#8217;m defending the rights of this man to due process,&#8221; he claimed. CNN assisted Van Hollen in his efforts, describing Abrego-Garcia simply as a &#8220;Maryland resident.&#8221;
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“I am not defending the man. I&#39;m defending the rights of this man to due process.” 
Democratic Sen. Chris Van Hollen responds to criticism after advocating for Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident deported for alleged gang ties despite a court order. <a href="https://t.co/BZt1UFtQGG">https://t.co/BZt1UFtQGG</a> <a href="https://t.co/AC5H0nSGyG">pic.twitter.com/AC5H0nSGyG</a>
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Van Hollen also criticized Salvadoran officials, whom he said had set up photo ops during their meeting to make it appear as though Abrego-Garcia was being treated better than he actually was: &#8220;The Salvadoran authorities tried to deceive people. They tried to make it look like he was in paradise.&#8221;
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Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen describes his meeting with Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador. 
&quot;The Salvadoran authorities tried to deceive people. They tried to make it look like he was in paradise.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/CB4ds4BOgX">https://t.co/CB4ds4BOgX</a> <a href="https://t.co/VvekLMi59J">pic.twitter.com/VvekLMi59J</a>
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Van Hollen repeated that same sentiment on CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face the Nation,&#8221; saying, &#8220;They go to great lengths to deceive people, and that&#8217;s what you saw. These government guys essentially told the waiters to bring these drinks that appear to look like margaritas to the table. No one touched them.&#8221;
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Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) says El Salvador&#39;s government &quot;staged&quot; elements of his photos with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who was wrongly deported to a Salvadoran supermax prison, &quot;to create the impression that this is a guy in paradise.&quot;
&quot;They go to great lengths… <a href="https://t.co/KmKlcFQrok">pic.twitter.com/KmKlcFQrok</a>
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On NBC News&#8217; &#8220;Meet the Press,&#8221; Van Hollen claimed that the Trump administration was &#8220;flouting the courts&#8221; and  provoking a &#8220;constitutional crisis&#8221; by allowing Abrego-Garcia – who is a citizen of El Salvador — to remain in Salvadoran custody.
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Sen. Van Hollen says U.S. in constitutional crisis with Trump ‘flouting the courts’: Full interview <a href="https://t.co/tigmhVXude">https://t.co/tigmhVXude</a>
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And on &#8220;Fox News Sunday,&#8221; Van Hollen admitted to anchor Shannon Bream that his trip to El Salvador had been an &#8220;official Congressional trip,&#8221; meaning that it had been financed with taxpayer dollars.
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🚨 <a href="https://twitter.com/ChrisVanHollen?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ChrisVanHollen</a> confirms taxpayers paid for him to fly to El Salvador and sip margaritas with a deported illegal immigrant MS-13 gang member <a href="https://t.co/xByXzeRoYi">pic.twitter.com/xByXzeRoYi</a>
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CNN anchor Dana Bash pressed Van Hollen on Abrego-Garcia&#8217;s alleged ties to violent Salvadoran street gang MS-13 — noting that the Trump administration has cited court documents indicating that he is or was a member — but the Maryland Senator admitted he had not even asked about that.
&#8220;Can you say with absolute certainty that he is not, nor has he ever been a member of the MS-13 gang, and did you ask him point blank?&#8221; Bash asked.
&#8220;What Donald Trump is trying to do here is change the subject. The subject at hand is that he and his administration are defying a court order to give to give Abrego Garcia his due process rights. They are trying to litigate on social media what they should be doing in the courts,&#8221; Van Hollen complained. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t ask him that because I know what his answer is what he told me was he was sad and traumatized that he was being in prison because he has committed no crimes, and that goes to the heart of this issue because he&#8217;s being denied his due process rights.&#8221;
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BASH: “Can you say with absolute certainty that he is not, nor has he ever been a member of the MS-13 gang, and did you ask him point blank?”
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Meanwhile, during a different segment on ABC News, host Jon Karl pressed House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) on the party&#8217;s struggles with low popularity numbers — and Hogg&#8217;s promise to aid in unseating some incumbent Democrats going into 2026.
&#8220;I look forward to standing behind every single Democratic incumbent, from the most progressive, to the most centrist, and all points in between,&#8221; Jeffries replied.
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When asked about DNC vice chair David Hogg pushing to unseat some incumbents, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries says, “I look forward to standing behind every single Democratic incumbent, from the most progressive, to the most centrist, and all points in between.” <a href="https://t.co/QVCltLFudC">https://t.co/QVCltLFudC</a> <a href="https://t.co/Vr4s5xkLTm">pic.twitter.com/Vr4s5xkLTm</a>
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But Hogg also made it clear later in the broadcast that he had no intention of backing down either. &#8220;We cannot just be the party that is against Donald Trump. We have to be a party that doesn&#8217;t have a 27% approval rating from our own base. That is not a survivable future.&#8221;
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“We cannot just be the party that is against Donald Trump. We have to be a party that doesn&#39;t have a 27% approval rating from our own base. That is not a survivable future,” DNC vice chair David Hogg says of his push to challenge incumbent House Democrats. <a href="https://t.co/DaDPijvbEu">https://t.co/DaDPijvbEu</a> <a href="https://t.co/K1rfpnOzsn">pic.twitter.com/K1rfpnOzsn</a>
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Spin Cycle: Due Process, And Panic(!) At The DNC

Former MSNBC host Tiffany Cross quickly backpedaled when presented with the latest details about deported Salvadoran national Kilmar Abrego-Garcia, claiming that the real issue was not his individual case, but the larger picture.
Cross made the comments during a panel discussion on CNN, responding to Shermichael Singleton’s point regarding Abrego-Garcia and whether or not the federal government should have deported him to El Salvador.
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This is hysterical. After <a href="https://twitter.com/MrShermichael?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MrShermichael</a> rattles off the newly revealed Kilmar Abrego-Garcia MS-13 and serial domestic abuse evidence to CNN panel — 
— woke Tiffany Cross declares “we can’t make it about Kilmar. That’s just one person.&quot;
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Singleton laid out a series of reasons that he believed Abrego-Garcia’s deportation was not only justifiable, but a “national security issue,” noting among other things that Maryland gang units had determined that he was a member of the violent Salvadoran street gang MS-13. In addition, more recent reports showed a history of allegations of domestic violence against his wife.
Noting that due process was obviously a concern, Singleton added, “I think there’s absolutely enough here to send this guy somewhere else. One, he’s already broken the law. We’ve already established that. Now you do have evidence that suggests he was a member or is a member of MS-13, he’s also a serial abuser. This is not the type of individual I don’t think any one of us would want in our country: he should be deported.”
Despite the fact that many Democrats have seized on Abrego-Garcia’s case — including Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), who has tried unsuccessfully to persuade Salvadoran authorities to either release Abrego-Garcia from custody or at least allow him visitation — Cross jumped in then to claim that it was not really about him.
“We can’t make it about Kilmar,” she complained. “That’s just one person.”
“But that’s the case we’re talking about,” Singleton pushed back.
“It is,” Cross agreed, but then complained that the discussion should be about “the macro, not the micro.”
Cross went on to claim that President Donald Trump’s administration has been “indiscriminately” rounding people up for deportation.
“They are randomly deporting people without due process,” she claimed.

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Tiffany Cross

CNN pollster Harry Enten said on Thursday that President Donald Trump is strongest on his immigration policy — and, in fact, a majority of Americans agreed with him when he said that all illegal immigrants should be deported.
Enten laid out the details during a Thursday appearance on CNN News Central with anchor Kate Bolduan, where he noted just how far public sentiment had swung since Trump&#8217;s first administration on that particular issue — and how many Americans appeared to agree that Trump&#8217;s policies were an improvement on those of former President Joe Biden.
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Immigration is &quot;where Trump wants the focus&#8230; Pretty, pretty please with a cherry on top.&quot; 
-His net approval on immigration is positive
-A plurality say under Trump immigration policy is on the right track (unlike under Biden)
-Most want all undocumented immigrants deported <a href="https://t.co/5RbgJPjW7D">pic.twitter.com/5RbgJPjW7D</a>
&mdash; (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) <a href="https://twitter.com/ForecasterEnten/status/1912862689178644942?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Why is Trump focusing on immigration? Let me just tell you, this is where Trump wants the focus. Pretty, pretty please with a cherry on top. Why is that?&#8221; Enten asked before going to the data.
In 2017, several months into his first term in the White House, Trump had been underwater (-12 points) on immigration policy. Eight years later, with arguably stricter policies in place, Trump was above water by one point on the same issue.
&#8220;This is one of his strongest issues at plus one point,&#8221; Enten continued. &#8220;And more than that on the net approval — the net approval for him on this issue has stayed steady in the positive. This is an area where Donald Trump wants to focus because the bottom line is this is an area in which the American people, at least the bare majority of them, seem to like what he’s doing.&#8221;
Bolduan briefly raised the issue of the economy, saying that Trump was less popular on that particular topic, before asking Enten to lay out the difference between Trump and Biden on the immigration issue.
&#8220;We know that this was why he leaned into immigration so much,&#8221; Bolduan said.
&#8220;Yes, this is a big reason why,&#8221; Enten agreed, adding, &#8220;So take a look here. This is on immigration. What track are we on? The right track or the wrong track? Look in December. Look at the percentage who said we were on the wrong track, 62% of Americans, when Joe Biden was in office, compared to just 14% who said that we were on right track. Flash forward to April. Well, hello. 45% say we’re on the right track, compared to 42% who say we were on the long track.&#8221;
&#8220;So in a big switcheroo from where we were back in January, the plurality of Americans say that the country is on the right track when it comes to immigration policy. Back in December, when Joe Biden was president, the vast majority said that we were on the wrong track. Again, this points out that on the whole, Americans like where we’re going on immigration policy under Donald Trump, which is very different from where we were under Joe Biden,&#8221; Enten said.
Enten concluded with one last comparison, showing the dramatic change in public perception regarding mass deportations since the beginning of Trump&#8217;s first term.
&#8220;Voters favoring the government trying to deport all 11 million of them, back in 2016, just 38% of voters wanted the government to try to deport 11 million undocumented immigrants. Compared to where we are in 2025. Fifty-six percent – the majority,&#8221; Enten said. &#8220;The American people have come a long way on this issue, much closer to Donald Trump, and I think that’s a big part of the reason why Americans are increasingly saying the country is on the right track when it comes to immigration policy, and why Donald Trump’s net approval rating on that issue is in the positive, very much unlike his first term.&#8221;

CNN Pollster Admits Most Americans Side With Trump On Illegals, Want Them ALL Deported

CNN anchor Dana Bash cut away from President Donald Trump&#8217;s Oval Office remarks on Monday to protest his claim that CNN &#8220;hates our country.&#8221;
Trump made the comment during an Oval Office meeting with Salvadorian President Nayib Bukele, jabbing at the network over coverage of illegal immigration, particularly at the southern border, and saying that CNN &#8220;didn&#8217;t like putting out good numbers&#8221; that reflected well on his presidency.
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🚨 &quot;I think they hate our country actually&quot;: <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@POTUS</a> calls out &quot;fake news&quot; CNN for refusing to report on border crisis being fixed <a href="https://twitter.com/DailyCaller?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DailyCaller</a> <a href="https://t.co/N8mFO7btzM">pic.twitter.com/N8mFO7btzM</a>
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&#8220;We’re a great country, but we had stupid people running this country. And I can say what they’ve done to us at the border should never and can never be forgotten. It’s a sin what they did, and you are helping us out, and we appreciate it,&#8221; Trump said.
&#8220;Actually, what you’re doing with the border is remarkable. It has dropped, what, 95%? It’s incredible,&#8221; Bukele agreed.
&#8220;As of this morning, 99 percent, 99.1 percent to be exact,&#8221; Trump replied.
&#8220;Why are those numbers not in the media?&#8221; Bukele asked.
&#8220;Well, they get out with the fake news, you know, like CNN. CNN over here doesn’t want to put them out because they don’t like putting out good numbers. They only like putting it out because I think they hate our country, actually,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;But it’s a shame, you’re right. Isn’t that a great question? Why doesn’t the media, why don’t they put out numbers? Yeah, 99%, I mean, it’s crazy, right? We’re doing great. It’s a crazy time.&#8221;
CNN&#8217;s Dana Bash cut into the Oval Office meeting then to register her objection.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/DanaBashCNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DanaBashCNN</a>⁩: “CNN does not hate our country” <a href="https://t.co/QpfzV8GAdl">pic.twitter.com/QpfzV8GAdl</a>
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&#8220;I just want to say, for the record, since we heard President Trump say in the Oval Office that CNN hates our country, CNN does not hate our country. That should go without saying,&#8221; Bash protested. &#8220;I’ve been here for 32 years, and I see a rhetorical device in him trying to say such a thing. That said, I want to focus on the news that we heard.&#8221;

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CNN Cuts Away From Trump Oval Office Remarks To Protest: ‘CNN Does Not Hate Our Country’

CNN Cuts Away From Trump Oval Office Remarks To Protest: 'CNN Does Not Hate Our Country'

Dana Bash

Nearly two weeks after President Donald Trump announced his sweeping &#8220;Liberation Day&#8221; tariff plan, Democrats and their media surrogates finally appear to have coalesced around a narrative — and the word of the day is &#8220;chaos.&#8221;
For those who don&#8217;t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week&#8217;s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.
When Trump first introduced the tariffs during a White House event nearly two weeks ago, Democrats and the media talking heads all predicted that even America&#8217;s allies would turn on Trump — and quickly. But despite a few hiccups and complaints, the latest reports suggest that some <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/from-tariffs-to-talks-trump-adviser-reports-130-countries-now-seek-a-deal" target="_blank" rel="noopener">130 countries</a> have instead come willingly to the negotiating table — and a number have already promised to drop their own tariffs and non-tariff trade barriers on U.S. goods if the United States does the same.
When the stock market plummeted the day after the tariffs were introduced, legacy media and Democrats latched onto that, claiming that the tariffs would continue to wreak havoc on the markets — but as countries came to the table, prompting Trump to pause all of the reciprocal tariffs save for those levied against Communist China, the freefall stopped and numbers began to climb upward. The rise was anything but steady, however, bringing the Democrats their long-awaited talking point: CHAOS.
ABC News&#8217; &#8220;This Week&#8221; previewed Sunday morning&#8217;s broadcast — and an interview with Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) — by focusing on the &#8220;market uncertainty&#8221; that has remained &#8220;high despite President Trump’s rollback of many steep tariffs.&#8221;
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With market uncertainty high despite President Trump’s rollback of many steep tariffs, <a href="https://twitter.com/jonkarl?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jonkarl</a> interviews <a href="https://twitter.com/SenWarren?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenWarren</a> about the administration’s moves and whether her resolution to curtail the president’s ability to impose tariffs can pass Congress. <a href="https://t.co/7NZyCmU6RR">https://t.co/7NZyCmU6RR</a> <a href="https://t.co/HpjzSA7Ub9">pic.twitter.com/HpjzSA7Ub9</a>
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Warren, who joined a number of others who suggested Trump sparked the uncertainty on purpose in order to tip off his &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-view-host-claims-trumps-truth-social-posts-are-coded-insider-trading-tips" target="_blank" rel="noopener">billionaire friends</a>&#8221; and give them an opening to buy up stocks right before the market skyrocketed, said the magic word during her interview with host Jon Karl.
&#8220;Look, there is no tariff policy. It&#8217;s just all chaos and corruption,&#8221; Warren claimed. &#8220;That&#8217;s all we have going on. And how can you believe any of these guys? What did Donald Trump tweet out all in caps? &#8216;I WILL NOT BACK DOWN.&#8217; How many hours was that? 24 hours, 30 hours before he turned around and backed down?&#8221;
Warren then mocked Trump&#8217;s classification of the massive trade deficits with most countries worldwide as an &#8220;emergency,&#8221; asking, &#8220;What&#8217;s the emergency with Belgium?&#8221;
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“There is no tariff policy. It&#39;s just all chaos and corruption.” 
Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren slams Pres. Trump’s shifting tariff strategy amid economic uncertainty. <a href="https://t.co/OMqE9hhvsl">https://t.co/OMqE9hhvsl</a> <a href="https://t.co/bQTzwR9s9q">pic.twitter.com/bQTzwR9s9q</a>
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Warren went on to claim that Trump had actually created an &#8220;emergency,&#8221; saying that she believed it was time for Congress to step in and put a stop to it. &#8220;It is time for Congress right now to step into the emergency that Donald Trump has created, use our own powers.&#8221;
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Sen. Elizabeth Warren tells <a href="https://twitter.com/jonkarl?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JonKarl</a> that Democrats “don&#39;t have to wait for the courts to step in” to act against Pres. Trump’s tariffs. 
“It is time for Congress right now to step into the emergency that Donald Trump has created, use our own powers.” <a href="https://t.co/tzFvfj3LmA">https://t.co/tzFvfj3LmA</a> <a href="https://t.co/BO8YonYd0r">pic.twitter.com/BO8YonYd0r</a>
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Karl also spoke with Stephen A. Smith, who recently flipped on his previous statements and said he was actually considering a presidential run in the future. Smith took a similar tone, arguing that Trump&#8217;s tariffs were based on a whim rather than any well-thought-out economic strategy.
&#8220;This whole tariff war situation is utterly ridiculous,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There doesn&#8217;t appear to be a plan.&#8221;
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ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith on the first few months of the Trump administration: “I don&#39;t like what I&#39;m seeing, but I&#39;m not surprised.” 
“This whole tariff war situation is utterly ridiculous … There doesn&#39;t appear to be a plan.” <a href="https://t.co/P6PenqaXuY">https://t.co/P6PenqaXuY</a> <a href="https://t.co/DVWnauYHDO">pic.twitter.com/DVWnauYHDO</a>
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Margaret Brennan teased her Sunday morning broadcast of &#8220;Face the Nation&#8221; on CBS News in much the same fashion, saying, &#8220;It&#8217;s tariff chaos. As the U.S. trade war with China intensifies, how Americans, the stock market, and the entire global economy could be impacted.&#8221;
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This Sunday on Face The Nation with <a href="https://twitter.com/margbrennan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@margbrennan</a>:
It&#39;s tariff chaos. As the U.S. trade war with China intensifies, how Americans, the stock market, and the entire global economy could be impacted. <a href="https://t.co/IlkkXfxEiS">pic.twitter.com/IlkkXfxEiS</a>
&mdash; Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1910825146555736284?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 11, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari said the quiet part aloud, telling Brennan that the more pundits and &#8220;experts&#8221; wrung their hands about the volatility in the market, the more volatile the market was likely to become.
&#8220;It is a serious situation. If everybody is nervous at the same time, businesses and consumers, and they all pull back at the same time, that can lead to an economic downturn, just by itself,&#8221; he said, adding that he hoped uncertainty would dial back amid J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon&#8217;s estimation that the odds of a recession sat at 50%.
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When asked if his estimate for the odds of a recession is as high as J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon predicts — at 50% — Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari says, &quot;Hopefully those odds can be brought down.&quot;
&quot;It is a serious situation. If everybody is nervous at the same time,… <a href="https://t.co/FvaVC04SXx">pic.twitter.com/FvaVC04SXx</a>
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&#8220;Obviously, the market participants are trying to grasp for, where is this is all going to settle? And that&#8217;s causing volatility as they are trying to do these assessments. So, that volatility is to be expected,&#8221; Kashkari added, letting Brennan know that the sky wasn&#8217;t falling just yet. &#8220;But markets are functioning, transactions are happening, and so, I anticipate that&#8217;s going to continue.&#8221;
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Despite a tumultuous week in the markets, they look orderly at the moment, says Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari.
&quot;Obviously, the market participants are trying to grasp for, where is this is all going to settle? And that&#39;s causing volatility as they are trying to do… <a href="https://t.co/pkXz3qN3nx">pic.twitter.com/pkXz3qN3nx</a>
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Senator Warren also made a stop at CNN on Sunday, speaking with anchor Jake Tapper on &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; and repeating her claims of &#8220;chaos and corruption&#8221; and arguing that Trump was tailoring his tariffs and timing their announcements in order to benefit donors and billionaires: &#8220;Investors will not invest in the United States when Donald Trump is playing red light, green light with tariffs and saying, &#8216;oh, and for my special donors, you get a special exception.'&#8221;
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&quot;Chaos and corruption.&quot;<a href="https://twitter.com/ewarren?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ewarren</a> tells <a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jaketapper</a>: &quot;Investors will not invest in the United States when Donald Trump is playing red light, green light with tariffs and saying, oh, and for my special donors, you get a special exception.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/oaeGkCxKPU">pic.twitter.com/oaeGkCxKPU</a>
&mdash; State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1911426512726667428?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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CNN also used the magic word when sharing clips from the show from the official X account.
&#8220;.@jaketapper presses Trump economic adviser Kevin Hassett on tariff chaos: &#8216;What do you say to small business owners, or even big business owners, who say they&#8217;re having difficulty making long term business decisions because the country seems right now to be run by capricious whim?'&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jaketapper</a> presses Trump economic adviser Kevin Hassett on tariff chaos: “What do you say to small business owners, or even big business owners, who say they&#39;re having difficulty making long term business decisions because the country seems right now to be run by capricious… <a href="https://t.co/0mjd7a8J49">pic.twitter.com/0mjd7a8J49</a>
&mdash; State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1911409683618791890?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Former Rep. Susan Wild (D-PA) also let the buzz word slip during her appearance on CNN, saying, &#8220;This chaos is not a good state of being.&#8221;
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Former Dem Rep. <a href="https://twitter.com/wildforcongress?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@wildforcongress</a>: “This chaos is not a good state of being”<a href="https://twitter.com/RepTimBurchett?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepTimBurchett</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ashleyrallison?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AshleyrAllison</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/BradOnMessage?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BradOnMessage</a> join <a href="https://twitter.com/jaketapper?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jaketapper</a> to discuss the fallout from Trump’s tariff rollout <a href="https://t.co/cvFKMC3cYe">pic.twitter.com/cvFKMC3cYe</a>
&mdash; State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1911439945941533136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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On X, @westernlensman even posted a montage of the Democrats and media delivering the buzzword:
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The word has gone out: &quot;CHAOS!&quot; <a href="https://t.co/KTCVv7UpHM">pic.twitter.com/KTCVv7UpHM</a>
&mdash; Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) <a href="https://twitter.com/WesternLensman/status/1911097429253841028?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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And there&#8217;s more:
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New Democrat talking point, “chaos”. They all got the memo. <a href="https://t.co/Efi2YZFaJK">pic.twitter.com/Efi2YZFaJK</a>
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