We’re solely six days into 2021 and CNN host Chris “Fredo” Cuomo already submitted an early contender for his most Fredo moments of the years (Right here’s his most Fredo moments from 2020). Simply as he and co-host Don Lemon took the helm of the community’s protection of the Georgia Senate runoffs within the wee hours of Wednesday morning, he had a little bit of a Freudian slip (or Fredian slip) and cheered “we received” because it appeared that each Democratic candidates have been set to win their respective contests.
Leaning on a few Georgia themed songs, Cuomo yukked it up with Lemon on the backside of the 12:00 a.m. hour and touted the state going blue:
CHRIS CUOMO: Midnight Practice to Georgia.
DON LEMON: Midnight Practice to Georgia! And we’re speaking about Georgia, often ruby pink.
CUOMO: Um-hm.
LEMON: On the precipice of presumably turning blue and altering the Senate and altering, actually, no less than, the start of the course of the Biden presidency. Who would have thunk that this might have occurred in state like Georgia?
CUOMO: It’s uncommon. It’s a signal of the instances. The Republicans now hoping that this isn’t the evening that the lights went out in Georgia.
“So, I’ll let you know who received tonight, we already know, you probably did. As soon as once more a phenomenal show of democracy in motion,” Cuomo declared. And regardless of accusing Georgia of being a hotbed of voter suppression simply final summer season, he went on to declare that “We’re not getting any humorous enterprise out of the state of Georgia. The officers are content material with the way it’s going.”
Bringing it again round to confidence within the consequence, Cuomo boasted: “We all know on the numbers that we have now, we received.” However Fredo realized what he simply blurted out and instantly added: “democracy received.”
Positive, Fredo. That’s completely what you meant. No matter meaning.
Shortly thereafter, the 2 wagged their fingers at Pennsylvania, the place, on Tuesday, the state legislature opted to not seat a Democrat as a result of the race was tight and there have been professional questions on how ballots have been counted in a single county versus one other.
In fact, there was no context given as Cuomo equated the rowdy session to a former Soviet Bloc nation in Japanese Europe:
CUOMO: See what occurred in Pennsylvania as we speak?
LEMON: Yeah.
CUOMO: That’s what you might have occur.
LEMON: Yeah.
CUOMO: It may appear to be –
LEMON: Refusing to sit down a Democrat.
CUOMO: — a kind of scenes from Japanese Europe, the place impulsively it’s like a donnybrook in center of an official briefing. I am shocked they did not begin throwing punches at one another as we speak. That is how unhappy and savage what’s happening is correct now.
Go away it to Fredo to instantly fall again on resorting to bodily violence to take care of a political disagreement. He does again a home terrorist group (Antifa), in any case.
That is CNN.
The transcript is beneath, click on “broaden” to learn:
CNN’s Election Day in America: Georgia Senate Runoffs
January 6, 2021
12:31:23 a.m. Japanese(…)
CHRIS CUOMO: Midnight Practice to Georgia.
DON LEMON: Midnight Practice to Georgia! And we’re speaking about Georgia, often ruby pink.
CUOMO: Um-hm.
LEMON: On the precipice of presumably turning blue and altering the Senate and altering, actually, no less than, the start of the course of the Biden presidency. Who would have thunk that this might have occurred in state like Georgia?
CUOMO: It’s uncommon. It’s a signal of the instances. The Republicans now hoping that this isn’t the evening that the lights went out in Georgia.
LEMON: [laughter]
CUOMO: That was two songs.
LEMON: You are stuffed with them.
CUOMO: That’s it, I’m finished. [John] Berman was going to provide you that one. Now, he’s going to have consider one thing else.
So, I’ll let you know who received tonight, we already know, you probably did. As soon as once more a phenomenal show of democracy in motion. We’re not getting any humorous enterprise out of the state of Georgia. The officers are content material with the way it’s going. Now we have a protracted technique to go, counting may take a while. I don’t anticipate it to be known as tonight, however we will likely be going by means of.
However already, we all know on the numbers that we have now, we received, democracy received. Often a particular election after a basic, you might have about 50 p.c falloff in who votes. Right here, you might have 5 million voted in Georgia in November. We’re undoubtedly over four-and-a-half million.
LEMON: 4.6 million individuals voted in contrast — for runoff that is actually good.
CUOMO: Large.
LEMON: And let’s not overlook Chris, that is occurring as we’re going into joint session of Congress the place Biden’s electoral victory will formally be licensed. After which you might have all these people, these Republicans who’re going to attempt to cease it. However they can not actually, legally. The President have been pressuring the Vice President to cease it, which he can’t actually do. He does not have the facility to do. We’re in the midst of a pandemic. What else may we have now happening proper now, particularly when it issues politics on this nation?
CUOMO: See what occurred in Pennsylvania as we speak?
LEMON: Yeah.
CUOMO: That’s what you might have occur.
LEMON: Yeah.
CUOMO: It may appear to be –
LEMON: Refusing to sit down a Democrat.
CUOMO: — a kind of scenes from japanese Europe, the place impulsively it’s like a donnybrook in center of an official briefing. I am shocked they did not begin throwing punches at one another as we speak. That is how unhappy and savage what’s happening is correct now.
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