Our item of yesterday pointed out the paucity of pro-Trump Republicans on CNN This Morning under its new host, Audie Cornish, a former host of NPR’s All Things Considered.
Shockingly, it looks like Audie didn’t read, or certainly did not take to heart, our item. Her panel today consisted of two confirmed liberals: Jackie Kucinich of the Boston Globe and Chuck Rocha, a former Bernie ’20 campaign advisor, whose shtick is sporting a big cowboy hat.
And for the Republican on today’s panel, Cornish chose Ashley Davis, a former aide to President George W. Bush.
Davis promptly proceeded to employ a metaphor about Trump that was in stunningly poor taste, claiming that the recent stock market drop is “around Trump’s neck.”
This, in respect of someone who has been the target of two recent assassination attempts. Imagine if a conservative had employed the same…