‘No No No! It’s Not a Media Creation!’ CNN Anchor Objects When Republican Tries To Shoot Down Trump Ballot Ban Question

CNN anchor Kate Bolduan pushed back when Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) tried to shoot down a question about ex-President Donald Trump being dumped from the ballot, telling him “It’s mot a media creation!”

The story of the day Wednesday was the Colorado Supreme Court’s bombshell ruling banning Trump from the ballot on the grounds that he violated the 14th Amendment by engaging in insurrection on January 6. The court split on the question in a 4 to 3 decision.

Roy made an appearance as a surrogate for Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) on Wednesday’s edition of CNN News Central, and got frustrated when Bolduan asked about the Trump decision, claiming voters don’t care about it and complaining about being grilled over it during gaggles in Iowa.

Bolduan persisted:

KATE BOLDUAN: Let me ask you about what’s the big news this morning. Colorado Supreme Court deciding that Donald Trump is disqualified from the state’s primary ballot. What’s your reaction to that?

REP. CHIP ROY: Yeah. I mean, look, I think is a terrible opinion. I think it will get struck down by the Supreme Court.

But this is all the kind of stuff the American people are tired of. They’re tired of looking backwards. They don’t want to be sitting there looking through the lens of whatever the latest story is going to be, about what the next attack is going to be.

They want to look forward. They want somebody who can serve for eight years. They want somebody who’s going to be able to present a vision that they can get behind and they can follow somebody who’s demonstrated success at increasing the economy in Florida, securing the communities in the streets, standing up to stop illegal immigration, you know, doing all the things that he’s done to make Florida a net migration state where people are moving there.

And they don’t want to be talking about the Colorado Supreme Court. Like literally, you guys are asking about it when I’m at the gaggle. But nobody in the, in the breakfast this morning that I was with Iowans was going, “Oh, man, the Colorado Supreme Court!”.

I mean, there was one question because it was about Trump, but it was about whether or not we’re going to have to focus on those questions–.

KATE BOLDUAN: No, no, no! It’s a historic ruling coming from a Supreme Court kicking, removing a presidential candidate from a ballot. It’s not, like this isn’t a media creation! I know you can respect that. It is news to be discussed.

And I want to know what Ron DeSantis thinks about it. And that’s why, I also care what you think about it, because it gets to the question. (Yeah) it gets at what happened on January 6th and what role that Donald Trump played in it. This is all intertwined!

When you talk about, the politics and the legal are two, can be two very separate things here. Do you think as we’ve seen.

REP. CHIP ROY: Right, well Kate, I’ve answered the question.

KATE BOLDUAN: I know I just want to ask you one more time.

REP. CHIP ROY: Kate. Well, I’ve answered–.

KATE BOLDUAN: I know! I’ve got another question!

REP. CHIP ROY: I’ve answered the question yesterday and so did Governor and so did Governor DeSantis in saying that we believe that it was clearly a wrong opinion by the Colorado Supreme Court.

I believe it’ll be struck down by the US Supreme Court. I think it’s unconstitutional. I think it’s harassing the former president in ways that are completely inappropriate.

But here’s the key issue. My point is, it wasn’t really to say that you don’t you shouldn’t, you know, cover the question.

It’s to say this: the people in Iowa I’m talking to, they’re not talking about the Colorado Supreme Court, other than the extent to which it’s about all we’re focusing on are those questions about the former president.

Watch above via CNN News Central.

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