Friday morning’s coverage of former President Trump’s most recent indictment for the election charges included a segment on CNN News Central where anchor Kate Bolduan discussed former Vice President Mike Pence’s [R-IN] involvement and opinions on the case with his former chief of staff, Marc Short. During this interview, Bolduan asked Short about recent growing distrust in the American election system, to which he responded (to her dismay) by attributing this distrust to both Republican and Democrat questioning of elections when the other side won.
Bolduan began on this subject by mentioning a recent CNN poll revealing that, as of July, almost 70 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning Independents thought that “Biden did not legitimately win enough votes to win the presidency.” She asked Short, “whose fault was that?” as though public opinion and observation was something that someone could be guilty of.
Short responded to this by addressing the general issue of American distrust of the election system, which “has been building for unfortunately a couple decades.”
He then brought up the times when Democrats had questioned the results of “the last three times that Republicans have won presidential elections” with Bush in 2000 and in 2004 and, Trump in 2016 (a result even the current White House press secretary denied at the time).
Peeved at this answer, Bolduan interrupted Short to exclaim, “Oh, come on, Marc, don't do this,” exposing her aversion to hearing facts about past elections that didn’t align with the leftist agenda.
Here, Short tried to explain and reiterate his point, even trying to appease Bolduan by reminding her that these instances “never resulted in something violent like January 6th did.”
However, he was not able to get much of an argument out to Bolduan, as she angrily reiterated her question, speaking over him in her attempt to hear his opinion on the matter.
Eventually, Bolduan stopped speaking, and allowed Short to finish his statement:
Absolutely—the undermining of confidence has been happening on both sides of the aisle, Kate. Nothing happened as serious as January 6th before. And as I’ve said, Donald Trump was absolutely wrong on that.
But unfortunately there have been forces on both sides of the aisle pushing a lack of confidence in our election results for awhile.
Bolduan, lips pressed together to display her displeasure at this answer, then said that she was “surprised on that one,” just before ending the interview.
This was not the first time Short had schooled Bolduan in this interview either, since he had deflected her other, equally pointed questions earlier in the show about Pence’s confidence in the Justice System, especially in its ability to handle Trump’s case, and whether the American people should have this confidence or not.
Short’s reasonable answer had been to emphasize the importance of the American people having the facts of the case exposed to them, so that they could make an informed decision about it for themselves rather than blindly following the will of one man (or media platform) or another.
Bolduan understandably didn’t like this answer, since getting people to blindly follow and obey their every word is what the liberal media has always wanted the most.
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Transcript of the segment below (click Expand):
CNN News Central
8/4/23
9:41:48 AM ET
KATE BOLDUAN: Nearly 70 percent of Republicans in the new CNN poll still believe that Joe Biden did not legitimately win the 2020 election. Whose fault is that?
MARC SHORT: Well, I'd say that that's probably something that, Kate, has been building for unfortunately a couple decades of people losing confidence in elections.
I mean, something that—that I think has gotten less scrutiny is the fact that the last three times that Republicans have won presidential elections, Democrats have stood up in Congress to object to those results and object to the certification…
[CROSSTALK]
BOLDUAN: Oh, come on, Marc, don't do this.
SHORT: It obviously never resulted—Kate, no—Kate, it never resulted in something violent like January 6th did—but this has been happening—Kate, now—Kate, this has been happening—the undermining—the undermining—no—
BOLDUAN [Talking over Short]: 70 percent of the party does not believe the last President was legitimately elected—you—you think that would not be the same for—you think that—would it be happening most after those last elections?
[END CROSSTALK]
SHORT: Absolutely—the undermining of confidence has been happening on both sides of the aisle, Kate. Nothing happened as serious as January 6th before. And as I’ve said, Donald Trump was absolutely wrong on that.
But unfortunately there have been forces on both sides of the aisle pushing a lack of confidence in our election results for awhile.
BOLDUAN: I’m surprised on that one….
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