CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings and anchor Jake Tapper squared off over illegal immigration and the potential impact of President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s plan to begin deporting illegal immigrants from the United States.
Jennings noted that a number of Democrats have raised objections to the plan — and some have made the argument that <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/former-trump-official-triggers-cnn-commentator-over-mass-deportations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">mass deportation</a> would adversely impact grocery prices because of the number of illegal migrants who work in agriculture. Tapper appeared to object, but ended up making the same argument.
WATCH:
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CNN’s Jake Tapper: “Who’s having a meltdown [about Trump deporting farm workers]?”<a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ScottJenningsKY</a>: “Uhhhh — I mean, everybody seems to be on the same sheet of music today that this is going to mess up the agriculture industry and drive the grocery prices higher. I’ve seen… <a href="https://t.co/MMQIBphssn">pic.twitter.com/MMQIBphssn</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1858638834709172522?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Who’s having a meltdown?&#8221; Tapper asked.
&#8220;Uhhhh — I mean, everybody seems to be on the same sheet of music today that this is going to mess up the agriculture industry and drive the grocery prices higher,&#8221; Jennings replied. &#8220;I’ve seen numerous pieces on it. I’ve seen everybody seems to be out there talking about it and so, it strikes me, Jake, that Democrats — this is their new line of attack, that Donald Trump’s got a plan to raise your grocery prices simply by following through on his campaign promises. And I don’t — I just don’t think it’s true.&#8221;
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&#8220;I’ve been covering this issue since the first Bush administration in 2001,&#8221; Tapper pushed back. &#8220;I mean, this is always one of the issues with it — is that there are a lot of undocumented immigrants who work for the agricultural sector and there’s always concerns about are those people actually going to be deported and, if so, what happens to prices for, you know, regular folk just trying to make a — make an honest living and buy some eggs.&#8221;
Prior to Trump&#8217;s sweeping victory on November 5, Vice President-elect JD Vance explained that a new Trump administration would start by deporting illegal immigrants who had committed crimes in the United States or who already had standing deportation orders. President-elect Trump has confirmed that he would use <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-confirms-plan-to-use-military-assets-for-mass-deportation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">military assets</a> to aid in the deportation process.

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WATCH: Jake Tapper, Scott Jennings Square Off Over Deportations

Deportations

Illegal Immigration

Jake Tapper

Media

Politics

House Speaker Mike Johnson made a simple but important point about President-elect Donald Trump’s list of nominees, saying that the American people have demanded that Trump shake up the status quo.
Johnson <a href="https://mikejohnson.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1483#:~:text=This%20is%20what%20I'll,shake%20up%20the%20status%20quo.">told</a> CNN’s Jake Tapper:
<blockquote>This is what I&#8217;ll say about the nominees that the President has put forward, is that they are persons who will shake up the status quo. And I think what the American people have believed, and what they&#8217;ve delivered with the mandate in this election, is they demand that we shake up the status quo. It&#8217;s not working for the American people.
So, you used the term in the opening about how these are disruptors. They are, I think that&#8217;s by design. Any president has the right to name their own cabinet, to nominate persons that they think will fulfill their agenda. And the people that are on this list will do that. They will go into the agencies that they&#8217;re being asked to lead, and they will reform them.
These agencies need reform, and I think the vast majority of American people understand that. You can&#8217;t have status quo appointments in a moment like this.</blockquote>
Johnson is correct. 
The thing that is truly obvious about all of these picks is that they are meant to shake up the status quo.
And that is driving the Left nuts. They can say it&#8217;s all about the accusations against Matt Gaetz or Pete Hegseth and his tattoos, but that’s not really what it&#8217;s about — because we know for a fact that if these people were on the Left, all of that would be ignored willy-nilly. It wouldn&#8217;t matter to them one iota.
It is perfectly obvious the big objection is that Trump is moving fast, not on nominees per se, but moving fast on the policies to be pursued by the nominees.
That is the actual goal here for the Left. 
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For example, Joe Biden and the Left have been touting the so-called “green energy revolution.”
The problem with the green energy revolution is that it is utterly and completely failing. It doesn&#8217;t mean that there can&#8217;t be development of green energy or electric cars.
But it does mean that the so-called green energy revolution is not going to replace fossil fuels any time soon. Fossil fuels are too efficient; they are too durable. Biden’s attempt to cut them off has been a mistake.
Over the weekend Biden <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/11/17/biden-trump-amazon-rainforest-climate-speech-00190049" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, “Some may seek to deny or delay the clean energy revolution that’s underway in America, but nobody — nobody — can reverse it. Nobody.&#8221; 
Good luck, because actually somebody can reverse it. That person is President Trump — not to reverse the so-called green energy revolution, but to rely on fossil fuels that are actually going to power the American economy.
Trump, pushing the shale boom, selected Chris Wright as the nominee for Energy Secretary, a man who was “front-and-center” for the fracking revolution, according to the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/trumps-choice-for-energy-secretary-is-a-fracking-booster-and-climate-skeptic-c94ed844" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wall Street Journal</a>.
The idea that we are going to up the ante on the fracking revolution is great. It has completely shifted, not just economically with regard to the global balance of power, but also geopolitically in terms of military power, in terms of leverage. The energy revolution in the United States has totally shifted the balance of power, and that is wonderful.
And Trump is reinvigorating that. The amount of energy production in the United States is going to skyrocket. Wright will join the newly formed National Energy Council alongside North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, Trump’s nominee for Secretary of the Interior, who will roll back the Biden regulations that have hampered resource development.
All of this means a booming American economy. The boom is here.
Trump picked Brendan Carr for FCC chairman, who has announced that he will take on what he called the “censorship cartel”: Facebook, Google, Apple, and Microsoft. 
So, in energy, Trump&#8217;s going to blow things up. In communications, Trump&#8217;s going to blow things up.
And then, of course, he&#8217;s going to blow things up over at Defense. The Left is afraid Hegseth will come in and clean house.
Democrat senator-elect Elissa Slotkin from Michigan <a href="https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4994842-slotkin-were-really-at-risk-of-politicizing-the-military/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, “I think we&#8217;re really at risk of politicizing the military in a way that we can&#8217;t put the genie back in the bottle.”
Hold on. You Democrats politicized the military. You loved General Mark Milley out there explaining that white rage was the biggest problem in the military. You and the Left decided that the American military had to be turned into some sort of experimental laboratory for left-wing social policy and we needed to fly the Pride Progress flag. Your big idea was that wokeness was going to be the centerpiece for defense.
Pete Hegseth is not going to do any of that. That&#8217;s the real reason people are angry at Hegseth.
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Trump picked Matt Gaetz for Attorney General to blow up the status quo. That is the goal. If the Left wants to know how they got Gaetz, the answer is: They kept elevating people like Adam Schiff, the representative from California who spent an enormous amount of time targeting Trump (in both impeachments) and has now been elevated to Senator-elect from the state of California.
Gaetz is also a big middle finger to the DOJ and the FBI.
When people like Jen Psaki, the former press secretary for Joe Biden and now MSNBC host, criticize the picks, she is obviously not criticizing the picks because of their supposed personal morality or personal foibles. That&#8217;s not what this is about. It&#8217;s about their politics. Psaki commented on her show, <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/news/msnbcs-jen-psaki-tears-apart-trumps-cartoonish-yet-dangerous-picks-in-blistering-show-open/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a>:
<blockquote>These are the people who will be advising the president on every crisis that crosses his desk and representing the United States for some of them overseas, and they’re the people who have an impact also on your daily lives. See, these choices are on the one hand cartoonishly outrageous, but when that dust settles, it’s not really just about the scandals and the personal lives of these nominees and there are many, it’s about what their positions and their lack of experience could do to our health system, our national security and the rights we have in this country.</blockquote>
That’s what she&#8217;s worried about. She says it right there at the end. It&#8217;s not about personal issues. It&#8217;s not about Gaetz and underage girls. It&#8217;s not about Hegseth and any accusations against him or his tattoos.
It is just that they might blow up the entire system the Democrats have been building on and counting on and manipulating for decades.

UFC 309: Ruffy v Llontop

Here Comes The Boom: Trump Exploding Status Quo

2024 Election

Ben Shapiro

Cabinet

Donald Trump

Matt Gaetz

Mike Johnson

Pete Hegseth

CNN&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jake-tapper" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jake Tapper</a> fact-checked Vice President Kamala Harris’ lie that former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> was talking about abortion when he said he wanted to “protect women” whether they “like it or not,” when the comment was made about protecting women and children from illegal criminal migrants and missiles from foreign adversaries.
During a panel on “<a href="https://x.com/TPostMillennial/status/1852342236140228795">The Lead</a>,” the anchor played the quote by Harris and called her out for changing it to fit a narrative about Trump being a misogynist.
&#8220;When Trump said he was going to do something for women, whether they like it or not, ‘whether the women like it or not,’ he was talking about protecting women, protecting women whether they like it or not,” Tapper told the panel. “Certainly, you can take issue with the language, but he wasn&#8217;t saying he was just going to do whatever he wanted, regardless.”
&#8220;But you take my point,” he added. “He’s saying I&#8217;m gonna protect them, whether women want me to protect them.”
When he got pushback from some on the panel, the CNN anchor replied, &#8220;It&#8217;s not as she presented it. … So just quote it accurately.”
At a rally in Phoenix on Thursday, the <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnns-tapper-live-fact-checks-harris-trumps-quote-protecting-women-just-quote-him-accurately" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Kamala said</a>, &#8220;Now in America, one in three women lives in a state with a Trump abortion ban, many with no exceptions, even for rape and incest, which is immoral. And Donald Trump’s not done. Did everyone hear what he just said yesterday? That he will do what he wants, quote, and here&#8217;s where I&#8217;m going to quote, ‘whether the women like it or not.’ We must vote because this is the thing. You know, there&#8217;s a saying that you got to listen to people when they tell you who [they] are, and this is not the first time he has told us who he is. He does not believe women should have the agency and authority to make decisions about their own bodies.&#8221;
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Trump’s actual <a href="https://x.com/alx/status/1851801808642941242">quote</a> was, “Kamala has imported criminal migrants from prisons and jails, from insane asylums and mental institutions all over the world, from Venezuela to the Congo, including savage criminals who assault, rape, and murder our women and girls.”
“Anyone who would let monsters kidnap and kill our children does not belong anywhere near the Oval Office,&#8221; he added, noting that his team weeks ago told him not to say he wanted to protect women and children. “I said why? I’m president. I want to protect the women and children of our country. … I said, &#8216;Well, I&#8217;m gonna do it whether the women like it or not.&#8217; I&#8217;m gonna protect them. I’m gonna protect them from migrants coming in. I’m gonna protect them from foreign countries that want to hit us with missiles…”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-panel-explodes-over-suggestion-kamala-was-chosen-by-dem-party-elites" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN Panel Explodes Over Suggestion Kamala Was ‘Chosen’ By Dem Party Elites</a>

Presidential Nominee Kamala Harris Campaigns With Liz Cheney In Swing States Across The Nation

Jake Tapper Fact-Checks Kamala’s Lie About Trump’s ‘Protect Women’ Remark

Jake Tapper Fact-Checks Kamala's Lie About Trump's 'Protect Women' Remark

Elections

Kamala Harris

Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) battled CNN host Jake Tapper on Sunday during a lengthy interview just days ahead of the presidential election.
The vice presidential nominee remain composed while Tapper repeatedly got heated throughout the interview on the network&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; show.
During one exchange, Tapper got heated while bringing up former Trump officials who are not backing Trump in the 2024 election, including one who now works on ABC News&#8217; &#8220;The View.&#8221;
&#8220;Do you know one reason why Kamala Harris doesn&#8217;t have as many people criticizing her, is because she doesn&#8217;t fire people who fail,&#8221; Vance said. &#8220;That&#8217;s why we haven&#8217;t had a real audit of the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal is because Kamala Harris protects failures in government.&#8221;
&#8220;Donald Trump fires them,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And I would much rather have the president who fires people who screw up.&#8221;
WATCH:
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JDVance</a> DEMOLISHES the Fake News from disgruntled, fired former employees who will say anything to stop President Trump from re-election.
&#8220;You know one reason why Kamala Harris doesn&#8217;t have as many people criticizing her? Because she doesn&#8217;t fire people who fail.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/s0ZIufL5lP">pic.twitter.com/s0ZIufL5lP</a>
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1850532188820775163?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
Vance grilled Tapper on some of the hoaxes that CNN has promoted against Trump, including the Russia collusion hoax that it promoted for years.
&#8220;Ask yourself a basic question about network integrity,&#8221; Vance said. &#8220;You guys talked about the Russia hoax nonstop.&#8221;
Tapper responded: &#8220;The FBI was investigating it. The FBI was investigating it. So, we covered them.&#8221;
&#8220;And so you took the words of unnamed FBI agents and put them on your network as if they were the gospel truth,&#8221; Vance responded. &#8220;You did it again and again.&#8221;
&#8220;A viewer of your network would&#8217;ve believed that Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin conspired in 2016,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Now that was totally and preposterously false.&#8221;
WATCH:
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JDVance</a> sends CNN into oblivion for pushing the Russia hoax: &#8220;Ask yourself a basic question about network integrity!&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/sUIRhjXKHX">pic.twitter.com/sUIRhjXKHX</a>
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpWarRoom/status/1850534254897168460?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 27, 2024</a></blockquote>

The Atlantic Festival 2024 – Day 1

JD Vance Battles CNN’s Jake Tapper

JD Vance

Sen. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lindsey-graham" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lindsey Graham</a> (R-SC) went after CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper during an interview over the weekend for criticizing former President Donald Trump&#8217;s rhetoric against Vice President Kamala Harris on the campaign trail.
Tapper specifically honed in on Trump calling Harris &#8220;mentally impaired&#8221; during a campaign rally.
&#8220;Kamala is mentally impaired. Joe Biden became mentally impaired. Kamala was born that way,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;If you think about it, only a mentally disabled person could have allowed this to happen to our country.&#8221;
Tapper said that Trump was &#8220;insulting&#8221; people who had mental impairments and claimed &#8220;Vice President Kamala Harris is not mentally impaired.&#8221;
Graham explained that Trump was simply calling Harris a &#8220;crazy liberal&#8221; and then proceeded to highlight numerous examples of how far-Left and disastrous she has been, including the devastation that has come from her being put in charge of the border, her refusing to show up to Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu&#8217;s speech in the U.S., the withdraw from Afghanistan, Medicare for All, Green New Deal, and other &#8220;crazy stuff.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m not saying she&#8217;s crazy,&#8221; Graham said. &#8220;I&#8217;m saying your party, your policies are bats*** crazy.&#8221;
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&#8220;Well, they&#8217;re not my policies,&#8221; Tapper responded. &#8220;I will just say, she didn&#8217;t boycott Netan&#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;She didn&#8217;t show up,&#8221; Graham fired back.
Tapper tried to change the subject, saying: &#8220;But let&#8217;s focus on Trump&#8217;s rhetoric, because that&#8217;s what I&#8217;m actually asking you about, because&#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;The problems with the world are not Trump&#8217;s rhetoric. They call him crazy,&#8221; Graham noted. &#8220;Pelosi wanted to invoke the 25th Amendment. Why don&#8217;t you ever talk about that?&#8221;
Tapper completely ignored Graham calling him out over his pro-Democrat/anti-Republican bias and moved on.
WATCH:
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“I&#8217;m not saying she&#8217;s crazy. I&#8217;m saying your policies are batshit crazy.”<a href="https://twitter.com/LindseyGrahamSC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@LindseyGrahamSC</a> responds to Donald Trump calling Kamala Harris “mentally impaired.” <a href="https://t.co/VuzldJ1dk3">pic.twitter.com/VuzldJ1dk3</a>
— State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1840415159686144476?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 29, 2024</a></blockquote>

Sen. Lindsey Graham

Lindsey Graham Nukes CNN’s Jake Tapper For Complaining About Trump’s Rhetoric

Lindsey Graham

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said during an interview over the weekend that the Biden-Harris administration, by not backing Israel more following the October 7 terrorist attack, have caused the war against Hamas in Gaza to last longer and more people, including hostages, to die.
Cotton made the remarks during a Sunday interview on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; with Jake Tapper while discussing Israel&#8217;s recent strikes against the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah in Lebanon last week.
The Biden-Harris administration is &#8220;not giving them the political and diplomatic support that they needed from the very beginning,&#8221; Cotton said. &#8220;Rather than trying to put constant pressure on Israel, more pressure than we put on Iran and its terrorist networks, if Joe Biden and Kamala Harris would simply adopt a policy to let Israel win and back them to the hilt, the war on Hamas probably would have ended a long time ago.&#8221;
&#8220;Earlier this year, there was a de facto partial arms embargo on Israel, not just the 2,000-pound bombs, which they do need to hit Hamas in its deep and buried tunnels, but mortar rounds and artillery shells and small-arms ammunition. Now they even have a tractor embargo in Israel,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;So Israeli soldiers are going to be exposed to minefields that can&#8217;t be cleared because the Biden and Harris administration wants to allow them to get access to the tractors and the bulldozers they need to clear those minefields.&#8221;
He said that the administration&#8217;s policies have not only &#8220;had the effect of prolonging the fighting,&#8221; but they&#8217;ve also likely resulted in more hostages being murdered by Hamas.
&#8220;If the Biden-Harris administration had backed Israel from the beginning, not only would this war likely have already ended with fewer civilian casualties, but we would have gotten more hostages out earlier and alive,&#8221; he said. &#8220;What Hamas is doing, though, is continually moving the goalposts on any kind of hostage exchange for duly convicted terrorists that Hamas wants back. And the Biden-Harris administration keeps allowing them to move the goalposts.&#8221;
WATCH:
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Sen. Tom Cotton

Cotton: Biden-Harris Admin Caused Gaza War To Last Longer, Most Hostages To Die

State of the Union

Tom Cotton

Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) said during an interview over the weekend that it was time to &#8220;finally kill&#8221; the MAGA-wing of the Republican Party which comes a little over a month after a would be assassin tried to murder Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump at a political rally in Pennsylvania.
Booker made the remarks during a Sunday interview on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; when asked by host Jake Tapper how Democrats can claim that Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris is a &#8220;new chapter&#8221; for the party considering that she is the incumbent in the race.
&#8220;Democrats have controlled the White House for 12 of the last 16 years,&#8221; Tapper said. &#8220;How can Democrats talk about a new chapter, turning the page? You guys are the ones writing the book.&#8221;
&#8220;Well, you know that that&#8217;s not true, Jake, because you know politics like I do,&#8221; Booker claimed. &#8220;Right now, we see the MAGA Republicans in Congress killing all kind of pragmatic policies that we need to get done.&#8221;
Booker falsely claimed that Trump killed the border deal that was proposed in the U.S. Senate when, in reality, it received widespread pushback from across the political Right for being an insufficient response to the crisis that has unfolded under the Biden-Harris administration.
&#8220;His influence is egregious and incredible, from his appointment of three people to the Supreme Court that are now rolling back the most fundamental of our rights and freedoms, like bodily autonomy and reproductive rights,&#8221; he claimed. &#8220;So, to say that the MAGA Republicans are not still undermining commonsense, pragmatic, sensible politics is just wrong. And what I know this election can do is finally kill that strain of the Republican Party in a way that I think helps the pragmatic Republicans come back.&#8221;
Moments after claiming that it was time to &#8220;finally kill&#8221; MAGA, Booker said that he &#8220;can&#8217;t stand this tribalism&#8221; and the &#8220;us versus them&#8221; mindset.
WATCH:
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Corey Booker: This election can “finally kill” the MAGA “strain of the Republican Party.”
Trump was almost assass*nated weeks ago. A man was arrested last week for another assass*nation plot.
Yet they are not going to stop with this kind of incendiary, inflammatory and… <a href="https://t.co/3XiAn8a4Y0">pic.twitter.com/3XiAn8a4Y0</a>
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) <a href="https://twitter.com/WesternLensman/status/1827744113380192317?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 25, 2024</a></blockquote>

Senators Work On Capitol Hill Ahead Of 2-Week Recess

Senator Booker: It’s Time To ‘Finally Kill’ MAGA ‘Strain’ Of GOP

Cory Booker

MAGA

This week, CNN chief national security analyst Jim Sciutto claimed that billionaire Elon Musk’s conversation with former president Donald Trump was “not an interview” because Musk has endorsed Trump and donated to his campaign.
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It’s not an interview when the person asking the questions has endorsed you and is a donor to your campaign.
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) <a href="https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1823182447946895446?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2024</a></blockquote>
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But Musk didn’t promote his discussion with Trump as an interview, explicitly saying that he simply wanted a free-wheeling conversation. When pressed on how this definition could be used against CNN, Sciutto claimed that he and his colleagues “ask hard questions of both parties.”
That remains to be seen. <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Fact_check/Do_97_percent_of_journalist_donations_go_to_Democrats">Multiple studies</a> have shown that journalists who donate to political causes and politicians are far more likely to donate to Democrats. This bias is evident in the ranks of mainstream media outlets. For example, CNN anchor and pundit John Avlon is <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/ex-cnn-pundit-john-avlon-who-spent-years-bashing-trump-seeks-congressional-seat-in-district-that-support-him" target="_blank" rel="noopener">currently running</a> as a Democrat in New York&#8217;s 1st Congressional District. MSNBC&#8217;s Alicia Menendez is the daughter of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/convicted-senator-bob-menendez-will-resign-effective-august-20-reports" target="_blank" rel="noopener">convicted felon</a> and soon-to-be former Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ). NBC News briefly <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/14/business/media/chelsea-clinton-hired-by-nbc-news.html">hired</a> Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill and Hillary Clinton, as a correspondent in 2011.
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A Daily Wire review of FEC records found no evidence that CNN anchors who have interviewed Trump have donated to Democrats – at least not to any organization that requires public reporting of such donations. But their treatment of the former president is essentially a de facto endorsement of his opponents.
Here are some of the many, many examples of Sciutto’s network and others treating Trump more harshly than Biden or any other Democrat.
Jim Sciutto
Sciutto, who was chief of staff for then-Ambassador to China Gary Locke during the Obama administration, has used his X account to attack Trump and <a href="https://x.com/jimsciutto/status/1788377236275449978?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">defend President Joe Biden.</a> For example, on May 8, Sciutto claimed Trump halted Ukraine aid “for an explicit and personal political favor,” while claiming Biden threatening to halt aid to Israel was merely “over differences over the conduct of the war.”
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It’s a false equivalency. Trump denied Ukraine aid for an explicit and personal political favor. Biden is threatening to halt aid over differences over the conduct of the war, which U.S. officials and commanders have been counseling Israel since the very beginning of military… <a href="https://t.co/NCcrZyGj5L">https://t.co/NCcrZyGj5L</a>
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) <a href="https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1788377236275449978?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Sciutto’s tweets about Biden and Democrats are usually statements of praise or defense, such as a comment from June 16, 2021, where Sciutto said “Biden looked Putin in the eyes, Putin immediately looked away,” above a photo of Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin shaking hands.
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Biden looked Putin in the eyes, Putin immediately looked away. <a href="https://t.co/YCJJtB7PYq">https://t.co/YCJJtB7PYq</a>
— Jim Sciutto (@jimsciutto) <a href="https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/1405126328538501124?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 16, 2021</a></blockquote>
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In his defense, Sciutto has never interviewed Trump.
Kaitlan Collins
Collins&#8217; ascension at CNN (after a stint as The Daily Caller’s entertainment reporter) has been marked by biased decisions.
On November 26, 2020, Collins posted a selfie with other CNN reporters bragging about being part of the “crew that got President Trump to answer his first questions in over three weeks.” As others <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/reporters-take-photo-gloat-about-getting-trump-to-answer-questions-get-mocked">noted</a> at the time, neither Collins nor anyone else from CNN bragged about getting Biden to answer a single question as he and Vice President Kamala Harris continued to largely avoid taking questions from reporters.
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The crew that got President Trump to answer his first questions in over three weeks. Proud to be part of it. Happy Thanksgiving! <a href="https://t.co/1H1uBdxdG9">pic.twitter.com/1H1uBdxdG9</a>
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) <a href="https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1332099196091052033?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Collins also <a href="https://puck.news/the-kaitlan-era-begins-tonight/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=organic">apparently</a> rose through the ranks quickly at CNN thanks to her role as a White House reporter who <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/05/10/trump-cnn-kaitlan-collins-00095114">annoyed</a> Trump with her hostile questions.
Wolf Blitzer
Blitzer&#8217;s wife donated $250 to the Democratic National Committee in 1996, campaign finance records show. But Blitzer has come under fire for bias. CNN pundit Scott Jennings <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/whos-in-the-hospital-cnn-pundit-fires-back-at-wolf-blitzer-over-both-sides-response-to-trump-rally-shooting">blasted</a> Blitzer for saying “both sides” needed to cool rhetoric after an assassination attempt was made on Trump. Former National Security Advisor John Bolton <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/john-bolton-unloads-on-wolf-blitzer-over-alito-flag-brouhaha-just-over-the-line">excoriated</a> Blitzer for pushing a New York Times-based conspiracy theory that the “Appeal to Heaven” flag – which was designed by George Washington’s private secretary and commissioned for use in the Continental Navy in 1775 — was somehow a symbol of the January 6, 2021, Capitol riots.
Jake Tapper
Tapper, who began his career working for Democratic Rep. Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (now Chelsea Clinton&#8217;s mother-in-law), has used language <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnns-debate-moderators-dont-expect-fairness">comparing</a> Trump to Hitler.
In December 2023, Tapper said, “Trump, a couple of times over the weekend, referred to immigrants from South America, Africa, and Asia, he did not mention Europe, South America, Africa, and Asia as ‘poisoning the blood of our country,’ which if it’s not hyperbole, that does very directly echo Adolf Hitler’s language before World War II, before the Holocaust.”
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He also said, “If you would open up a copy of Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf,’ you would find the Nazi leader describing the mixing of non-Germans with Germans as poisoning. … There’s really no other way to say it. Donald Trump’s language mirrors this directly.”
As The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnns-debate-moderators-dont-expect-fairness">pointed out</a> in June, Tapper and fellow CNN host Dana Bash had the following exchange after the first debate between Trump and Biden in 2020:
<blockquote>Tapper: That was a hot mess, inside a dumpster fire, inside a train wreck. That was the worst debate I have ever seen. In fact, it wasn’t even a debate. It was a disgrace. And it’s primarily because of President Trump, who spent the entire time interrupting, not abiding by the rules he agreed to, lying, maliciously attacking the son of the Vice President.
Dana Bash: You just took the words out of my mouth. You used some high-minded language. I’m just going to say it like it is: that was a s***show!
Tapper: The President does not think he’s going to win this election. And he wants to bring the rest of us down with him.</blockquote>
He also said, after Trump lost re-election, that the “long national nightmare is over” for tens of millions of his “fellow” Americans.
Dana Bash
Dana Bash&#8217;s ex-husband, Jeremy Bash, gave hundreds to Democrat candidates and organizations during their marriage. After Biden’s 2024 State of the Union speech, Bash praised Biden, “They wanted him to be a fighter, and, boy, a fight did he deliver.”
Just this week, Bash <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnns-dana-bash-slammed-for-lying-about-remarks-made-by-trump-musk-during-their-talk">was caught lying</a> about what billionaire Elon Musk and Trump discussed on X. Bash played a deceptively edited clip giving the implication that Musk and Trump simply said bombing Hiroshima and Nagasaki wasn’t bad, when they were discussing that in the larger context of nuclear power and its benefits and dangers.
Sen. J.D. Vance <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jd-vance-shreds-left-wing-cnn-host-dana-bash-for-defending-tim-walz">recently called out</a> Bash for defending Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, after it was shown he has been misleading people about his military service.
Bash also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-anchor-dana-bash-raves-over-bidens-mic-drop-moment-on-hostage-release-but-its-a-lie">complimented</a> a response from Biden that proved to be false. When four hostages were released from Russia in August, a reporter asked Biden about Trump’s claim that he would get the hostages released if he was elected in November, to which Biden asked why Trump didn’t get the hostages out when he was president. Bash commented: “I think that was what they call a ‘mic drop’ moment.”
Only one of those hostages had been taken during Trump’s administration.
Anderson Cooper
Cooper’s on-air commentary also skews toward Democrats, like his 2020 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/brian-stelter-claims-cnn-would-never-air-an-incendiary-phrase-that-anderson-cooper-used-thursday">comment</a> that the Trump re-election campaign was “like a clown car on fire.”
Cooper also has criticized Trump’s selection of Vance as his running mate, asking a guest in July if he thought the Trump campaign was “having any buyer’s remorse,” after the media reshared old videos of Vance’s comments.
Cooper has not asked such a question following Harris’ selection of Walz as her running mate.
Cooper has also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/anderson-cooper-compares-capitol-hill-riot-to-800000-murdered-in-rwanda?%3Futm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dwtwitter">compared</a> the January 6 Capitol Hill riots to the Rwandan genocide, which saw 800,000 people murdered.
“Part of it, I think, just based on what you were just saying, it comes to mind, the idea of otherizing people is something I think we saw a lot of over the last four years. I mean, certainly we’ve seen a lot over the last decades, but it’s so easy to otherize people, to make people other than, other than American, other than patriotic, other than human,” Cooper said in February 2021. “You know, and we’ve seen it in Bosnia, we’ve seen it in Rwanda, where radio was telling people that you know, Hutus, were telling the radio listeners that Tutsi were cockroaches for you know, getting them ginned up for genocide.”
George Stephanopoulos
Stephanopoulos, ABC&#8217;s top political anchor, came under fire in 2015 after it was discovered that he failed to disclose a $75,000 donation to the Clinton Foundation. Stephanopoulos, who previously worked as President Bill Clinton&#8217;s White House communications director and senior advisor, had a long history of supporting Democrats and undermining Republicans. In 2024, he said it was &#8220;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/abcs-stephanopoulos-claims-airing-trump-interviews-live-journalistic-malpractice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">journalistic malpractice</a>&#8221; to air live television interviews with Trump, even though he&#8217;s currently running for president. Trump is also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-sues-george-stephanopoulos-abc-news-after-host-said-former-president-was-found-liable-for-rape" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suing</a> Stephanopoulos for defamation after the anchor falsely claimed Trump had been found &#8220;liable for rape.&#8221;
Rachel Scott
The ABC reporter who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-torches-abc-news-rachel-scott-for-very-rude-introduction-after-asking-very-nasty-question" target="_blank" rel="noopener">went viral</a> last month for her hostile question toward Trump at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Conference was a White House intern under President Barack Obama.
Margaret Brennan
On July 13 — the day Trump was shot by 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania — Brennan <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cbs-news-cnn-immediately-attack-trump-for-what-he-said-immediately-after-he-got-shot" target="_blank" rel="noopener">disparaged Trump</a> for not immediately making a &#8220;call for lowering the temperature.&#8221; She also berated him for not &#8220;condemning all political violence, and really trying to signal to his supporters as well not to retaliate or to have any kind of escalation.”

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CNN anchor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jake-tapper" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jake Tapper</a> criticized governor Tim Walz (D-MN) for repeating a &#8220;gross smear&#8221; of Senator JD Vance (R-OH) during his first rally after being named as the running mate for Vice President Kamala Harris.
Tapper made it clear that he&#8217;d prefer to not even discuss the topic at all — an X post making a false and decidedly vulgar accusation involving Vance and a couch — but that he felt as though he had to because Walz had used it to attack the Republican vice presidential nominee.
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CNN&#8217;s Jake Tapper Revolted By Couch-Sex-Involved &#8216;Gross Smear&#8217; Of Trump VP Pick Vance: &#8216;What Happened To We Go High?&#8217; <a href="https://t.co/8VaJeevpxM">https://t.co/8VaJeevpxM</a> via <a href="https://twitter.com/Mediaite?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@mediaite</a> <a href="https://t.co/UiiCXIE83M">pic.twitter.com/UiiCXIE83M</a>
— Tommy moderna-vaX-Topher (@tommyxtopher) <a href="https://twitter.com/tommyxtopher/status/1821565579700101509?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 8, 2024</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;So let me ask you a question because there’s this — I’m hesitant to even bring it up, but this is gross online smear about J.D. Vance involving couches, okay, and the only reason I cite it is because Governor Walz made a reference to it during his introduction speech yesterday,&#8221; Tapper opened a panel discussion on Wednesday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;The Lead&#8221; with a clip of Walz.
&#8220;And I got to tell you, I can’t wait to debate the guy. That is, if he’s willing to get off the couch and show up. So —&#8221; Walz said with a laugh, adding, &#8220;See what I did there?&#8221;
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&#8220;A clear reference to this gross smear. So I mean, whatever happened to Michelle Obama&#8217;s &#8216;When they go low, we go higher?'&#8221; Tapper asked.
Republican strategist Shermichael Singleton responded, saying essentially that he believed that ship sailed long ago. &#8220;I think Democrats have abandoned that a long time ago. Look, I get it. Politics is a brutal sport. This is like a boxing match and we’re trying to see if we can get the knockout first and they’re trying to do the same, and let’s see what happens in November, Jake. But I’m not surprised by it.&#8221;
Another panelist claimed that Democrats were simply following former President Donald Trump&#8217;s lead, saying, &#8220;I love Michelle Obama, but she’s not in this race. They’re running against Donald J. Trump who continues to go lower, deeper, more crazy &#8230; we’re meeting the energy where it is.&#8221;

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CNN anchor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jake-tapper" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jake Tapper</a> compared President Joe Biden to a movie character who is oblivious to the fact that he is dead.
Tapper made the comparison on Thursday as voices from within the Democratic Party grow louder and louder, calling for Biden to exit the 2024 campaign — and reports have begun to circulate that he could agree to step aside in the coming days.
Biden&#8217;s team, in contrast, has insisted that he plans to stay in the race and is the only one who could potentially beat former President Trump in a second head-to-head match-up. That, said Tapper, was what made Biden similar to &#8220;The Sixth Sense&#8221; main character Malcolm Crowe. Crowe, played in the 1999 M. Night Shyamalan thriller by actor Bruce Willis, is a psychologist who does not realize until the end of the film that he is actually dead.
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“Unaware of his grim fate.” CNN anchor Jake Tapper gets morbid talking about President Biden, compares him to a movie character who doesn’t know he’s dead. (Video: CNN) <a href="https://t.co/3SsWql6mq7">pic.twitter.com/3SsWql6mq7</a>
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) <a href="https://twitter.com/MikeSington/status/1814050327718744518?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 18, 2024</a></blockquote>
&#8220;Meanwhile, events no less momentous are playing out in Delaware where President Biden is self-isolating after testing positive for COVID, we’re told. To hear top Democrats tell it, President Biden is like Bruce Willis’ character in the movie &#8216;The Sixth Sense.&#8217; He is the only one who seems unaware of his grim fate,&#8221; Tapper explained.
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&#8220;Former President Obama has told allies recently that Biden&#8217;s chances of winning have &#8216;greatly diminished,&#8217; interesting choice of words,&#8221; Tapper continued, adding, &#8220;And that Biden needs to seriously consider the path forward, according to The Washington Post.&#8221;
A number of high profile Democrats — including Senate Majority Leader <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chuck-schumer-forcefully-made-the-case-that-biden-should-bow-out-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chuck Schumer</a> (D-NY), according to a Wednesday report from ABC News — have either publicly or privately addressed the issue with Biden, saying that it would be best for the party and for the country if he would bow out of the presidential race.

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A lot of controversy is breaking out over the moderators in the presidential debate.
Attacking the moderators is a popular debate strategy, and in this particular case, it would be worth it to Trump to engage in such a strategy.
The moderators are Dana Bash and Jake Tapper, who are obviously and strongly oriented against Trump. Tapper clearly does not like Trump; he likens him to Adolf Hitler.
Last December, Tapper <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/news/cnn-debate-moderator-jake-tappers-100037319.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>, “The dehumanizing rhetoric of Adolf Hitler is once again alive and well on a national political stage. This time, of course, in the United States.” That same month, he also said, “Trump, a couple of times over the weekend, referred to immigrants from South America, Africa, and Asia, he did not mention Europe, South America, Africa, and Asia as ‘poisoning the blood of our country,’ which if it&#8217;s not hyperbole, that does very directly echo Adolf Hitler&#8217;s language before World War II, before the Holocaust.” 
Further, Tapper commented, “If you would open up a copy of Hitler&#8217;s ‘Mein Kampf,’ you would find the Nazi leader describing the mixing of non-Germans with Germans as poisoning. … There&#8217;s really no other way to say it. Donald Trump&#8217;s language mirrors this directly.” 
After the first presidential debate in 2020, Tapper and Bash had <a href="https://x.com/TheLeadCNN/status/1311140249158942720">this exchange</a>:
<blockquote>Tapper: That was a hot mess, inside a dumpster fire, inside a train wreck. That was the worst debate I have ever seen. In fact, it wasn’t even a debate. It was a disgrace. And it’s primarily because of President Trump, who spent the entire time interrupting, not abiding by the rules he agreed to, lying, maliciously attacking the son of the Vice President.
Dana Bash: You just took the words out of my mouth. You used some high-minded language. I’m just going to say it like it is: that was a s***show!
Tapper: The President does not think he’s going to win this election. And he wants to bring the rest of us down with him.</blockquote>
On Election Night 2020, Tapper stated, “For tens of millions of our fellow Americans, their long national nightmare is over.” After Biden’s 2024 State of the Union Speech, Bash crowed, “They wanted him to be a fighter, and, boy, a fight did he deliver.”
<h4><a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-1991-member-exclusive" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WATCH: The Ben Shapiro Show</a></h4>
CNN&#8217;s Kasie Hunt interviewed Trump surrogate Karoline Leavitt, and they had a bit of a brawl because Leavitt pointed out these moderators are strongly oriented against Trump and Hunt got mad at this. Their <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgr36RJemGM" target="_blank" rel="noopener">exchange</a> got a bit heated: 
<blockquote>Leavitt: President Trump is knowingly going into a hostile environment on this very network, on CNN, with debate moderators who have made their opinions about him very well-known over the past eight years in their biased coverage of him. So, President Trump is willing to bring his message to every corner of this country, to voters, to ensure that he wins this election in November. He looks forward to doing that. And I know the American public look forward to hearing from him. 
 
Hunt: So, I&#8217;ll just say, my colleagues, Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, have acquitted themselves as professional as they have covered campaigns and interviewed candidates from all sides of the aisle. I&#8217;ll also say that if you talk to analysts of debates previous, that if you&#8217;re attacking the moderators, you&#8217;re usually losing. So, I really want to focus on what these two men are going to do and say when they stand on the stage. 
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Their conversation continued:
<blockquote>Leavitt: It would take someone five minutes to Google Jake Tapper Donald Trump to see that Jake Tapper has frequently likened President Trump to Adolf Hitler. 

Hunt: If you are here to speak on his behalf, I&#8217;m willing to have this conversation. 
 
Leavitt: I am stating facts that your colleagues have stated in the past. Now, as for this debate, the expectation for —
Hunt: I&#8217;m sorry, guys, we&#8217;re going to come back out to the panel. Karoline, thank you very much for your time. You are welcome to come back at any point. She is welcome to come back and speak about Donald Trump.</blockquote>
So why aren&#8217;t you allowed to talk about the moderators? The moderators are obviously an issue. They&#8217;ve been an issue in every presidential debate of my lifetime.
Speaking of Kasie Hunt, this is not somebody who doesn&#8217;t have a political dog in the fight here. A couple of years ago she mocked Rand Paul after he got pummeled by a neighbor, saying, “New details today on the incident that left Senator Rand Paul with six broken ribs. This might be one of my favorite stories… ”
But don&#8217;t worry. There&#8217;s no bias in the media.
CNN put out a <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4737344-cnn-debate-dana-bash-jake-tapper-thursday-trump-biden/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> saying, “Jake Tapper and Dana Bash are well-respected veteran journalists who have covered politics for more than five decades combined. They have extensive experience moderating major political debates, including CNN&#8217;s Republican presidential primary debate this cycle. There are no two people better equipped to co-moderate a substantial and fact-based discussion.”
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Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> offered insights into his view on the dealmaking that led to CNN <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-to-hold-first-2024-debate-between-trump-and-biden-with-no-audience" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hosting</a> his first debate against President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-biden" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Biden</a> of the 2024 election cycle.
The Washington Examiner&#8217;s Byron York <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/daily-memo/3056147/trump-on-the-debate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> a conversation in which Trump called anchor Jake Tapper, who has been announced as one of the debate moderators, &#8220;Fake Tapper.&#8221;
York noted how &#8220;Trump said it was the result of what he believes was failed gamesmanship on the part of the Biden campaign&#8221; when asked how the debate came together.
&#8220;What they did, I’m pretty sure, is that they approached me with a debate that I couldn’t take,&#8221; Trump said.
The former president noted how Tapper and his fellow anchor, Dana Bash, were selected as moderators. Trump went on to list other rules that CNN has announced for the debate on Thursday evening.
&#8220;No audience, sitting down, originally sitting down, a dead debate, turn off the mics when you’re not speaking so I can’t interrupt him,&#8221; he said.
&#8220;They knew I wouldn’t accept that because it was CNN, Dana Bash, Jake Tapper, and I like an audience and probably he doesn’t, who knows?&#8221; Trump continued.
He added, &#8220;They thought they would present it, I would say no, and they would say we can’t debate because Trump said no. So I said yes before they even gave me the terms. So he got roped into it.”
York point out Democrats &#8220;would interpret things differently&#8221; than how Trump described them. &#8220;After all, Biden took the lead in the debate maneuver and Trump had to react,&#8221; he observed.
&#8220;But there also appears to be little doubt that Biden, who trailed Trump in both national and key state polls, felt a need to shake up the race, and to do it sooner rather than later,&#8221; York wrote.
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&#8220;Thus, the June 27 debate will be the earliest general election faceoff ever,&#8221; he went on.
Another debate between Biden and Trump — this one hosted by ABC News — is planned for September 10.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> anchor Kasie Hunt shut <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cnn-anchor-cuts-off-trump-spox-as-debate-preview-goes-off-the-rails" target="_blank" rel="noopener">down</a> a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/rfk-jr-fails-to-qualify-for-cnn-presidential-debate" target="_blank" rel="noopener">debate preview</a> on Monday after Trump campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt kept bringing up how the moderators had criticized her boss in the past.
The cable network released a <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/media/4737344-cnn-debate-dana-bash-jake-tapper-thursday-trump-biden/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> afterwards, describing Tapper and Bash as &#8220;well respected veteran journalists&#8221; with experience in covering politics and moderating debates.
CNN added, &#8220;There are no two people better equipped to co-moderate a substantial and fact-based discussion and we look forward to the debate on June 27 in Atlanta.&#8221;

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