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During a live interview on CNN, radio host Charlamagne tha God openly challenged CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, accusing the network of not warning viewers enough about what he described as Donald Trump’s “fascism.” The exchange unfolded as they discussed CNN’s coverage of the 2024 presidential race, featuring Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Vice President Kamala Harris.

Charlamagne, known for his unfiltered style on The Breakfast Club, argued that Trump’s on-air coverage should reflect what he called Trump’s “fascist” tendencies. “I don’t think y’all have enough conversations about it,” Charlamagne said, claiming CNN appears more focused on questioning Harris’s background. “I feel like I heard more on this network about, ‘Is Kamala Harris Black?’ than I do about Donald Trump being a fascist.”

Cooper responded, defending the network by saying, “We talk about this every night.” However, Charlamagne doubled down, asserting, “Oh, I’ve seen those roundtable discussions a lot.” This prompted Cooper to interject, “Well, honestly, that’s bulls—, I’m sorry. That is, look, I’m a huge fan of yours, but to say that we’re sitting around discussing, is Kamala Harris Black?”

Clarifying his point, Charlamagne explained that while Cooper might not personally engage in these discussions, the network as a whole often does. Cooper maintained, “I don’t think any anchor on this network has been going around saying, ‘Is she Black?’”

Charlamagne further voiced his concerns over the media’s treatment of Trump: “I think no network has honest conversations about Donald Trump. Nobody has had honest conversations about Donald Trump since 2016,” he argued. “It’s always a double standard with Trump… talk about him being a threat to democracy. We don’t treat him like one.”

In response, a clearly taken-aback Cooper remarked, “I don’t know what you’ve been watching,” emphasizing that he doesn’t believe Trump supporters tune in expecting validation.

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Donald Trump’s history of sexual misconduct is once again being spotlighted, this time through a full-page ad in The New York Times organized by the “Survivors for Kamala” coalition. This group, composed of over 200 survivors of sexual and gender-based violence, along with their allies—including celebrities, advocates, and seven of Trump’s accusers—came together to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris while reminding the public of Trump’s legal history as an abuser.

The ad, according to a press release, emphasizes that Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, is a “legally recognized abuser.” Among the notable signatories of the letter accompanying the ad are survivors and prominent figures such as Natasha Stoynoff, Samantha Holvey, Anita Hill, Hadley Duvall, Alva Johnson, Tarana Burke, Padma Lakshmi, Viola Davis, and Busy Philipps. Organizations backing the letter include the National Women’s Law Center Action Fund, Survivors in Action, Survivors 4 Harris, Care in Action, and Survivor Justice Action.

Here’s the ad:

Tarana Burke, activist and founder of the Me Too movement, was one of several speakers who raised their voices during an October 21 Zoom call to support the effort. Burke also took to Instagram to amplify the message of the ad and the coalition’s mission. She wrote,
“Today, survivors of sexual and gender-based violence from across the country came together to make it clear that a Trump presidency is dangerous and specifically further endangers the lives of so many of us who have already endured enormous traumas.”

Burke continued, “With just about two weeks away from the election, we wanted to be clear what’s at stake for those of us living with the reality of sexual and gender-based violence day in and day out.”

Former New York state Sen. Alessandra Biaggi, another signatory, expressed her pride in supporting the letter in a tweet, encouraging others to explore the website and learn more about the cause.

The ad is a bipartisan effort, uniting progressives, liberals, and Republicans in a common goal to hold Trump accountable for his history of sexual violence. It serves as a public condemnation of his actions and policies, which, the letter argues, normalize sexual violence.
“A second Trump term would pose multiple dangers to our democracy—not least of which is the dangerous daily message it would send, through his presence and his policies, that sexual violence or abuse of any kind is normal, unavoidable, and something the American people should accept,” the letter states.

At least 26 women have publicly accused Trump of various crimes, ranging from assault to rape. In 2023, a New York jury found him liable for sexually abusing advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in 1996.

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Kamala Harris’ recent CNN town hall racked up strong ratings just ahead of the 2024 election, attracting 3.33 million viewers according to Nielsen live-plus-same-day data.

In the anticipated town hall, Harris sat down with Anderson Cooper to discuss critical election issues. The event, which aired at 9 p.m. ET and lasted approximately 71 minutes, also drew 744,000 viewers in the key cable demographic of adults aged 25-54.

The CNN town hall became the most-watched cable program of the night in total viewership and ranked second in the key demo, surpassed only by the NBA on ESPN.

Get this, Harris’ appearance on CNN slightly outperformed Donald Trump’s women’s issues town hall from the previous week, which pulled in 3.1 million viewers on Fox News, though Trump’s event aired earlier in the day at 11 a.m. ET. Moreover, the CNN town hall tripled the 1.04 million viewers who watched Harris’ Univision town hall earlier this month.

However, Harris’ town hall on CNN was nearly doubled in viewership by her Fox News interview on Special Report With Bret Baier, which drew in 7.8 million viewers just over a week ago. But that makes perfect sense. She went on Fox News, duh.

Anyway, the CNN event propelled the network to become the most-watched cable news channel during the time slot, surpassing both Fox News, which had 3.23 million total viewers and 423,000 in the demo, and MSNBC, which attracted 1.33 million total viewers and 155,000 in the demo.

Check this out, in terms of the key 25-54 demographic, Harris’ town hall on CNN surpassed any other candidate town hall in 2024. It topped the numbers for Trump’s Fox News town halls, which had 576,000 demo viewers in January, 358,000 in February, and 440,000 in early October.

As the event streamed live on Max and CNN.com, CNN’s digital platform recorded nearly half a million live starts throughout the day on Wednesday.

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Apparently, John Legend thinks Trump is a racist. What else is new? The “Ordinary People” crooner recently condemned Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump’s “racist” remarks about immigrants during an interview on Shannon Sharpe’s Club Shay Shay podcast. Legend’s comments were in response to statements Trump made during an ABC presidential debate.

If you recall, during that debate, Trump repeated unfounded claims, alleging that Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, were consuming domesticated animals, seemingly in an attempt to malign immigrants—an ongoing strategy in his campaign.

Legend, is actually a native of Springfield, strongly criticized Trump’s stance on immigration, calling it a cover for deeper racial biases in his presidential rhetoric. Speaking to Sharpe, Legend said, “When he talks about immigration, he’s talking about Black and brown people coming from the global South, and he says they are f**king up our gene pool.”

The Grammy winner went on to quote Trump, adding, “They are poisoning the blood of America. So what he’s saying is, the ideal version of America is a white America, and anytime brown people infiltrate America, they’re messing up the blood of America.”

But wait, Legend didn’t stop there. He connected Trump’s views to disturbing ideologies from history, explaining that Trump’s rhetoric about immigrants “messing up the gene pool” harkens back to dangerous beliefs about racial purity. “That takes us back to Hitler,” Legend continued. “That takes us back to Eugenics. That takes us back to folks who believe there’s a genetic hierarchy that’s racially determined. And I just can’t imagine—it couldn’t be me—a Black man voting for somebody who believes so deeply that Black men are inferior to him because we’re Black.”

As you may know, throughout his career, Legend has been outspoken on social and political issues, endorsing figures like Barack Obama and Joe Biden in past elections. This time, he has voiced his support for Vice President Kamala Harris, Trump’s leading opponent in the upcoming race.

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