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A CNN panel erupted in laughter after they were shocked by what a MAGA pundit considered "cringe."

On Wednesday night, a panel hosted by CNN anchor Abby Phillip discussed how denying that President Joe Biden won the 2020 election seems to be a litmus test for winning a role in the Trump administration. Phillip started the segment by showing a clip of three Trump judicial nominees skirting around the question when asked who won the 2020 election.

The clip included Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) yelling "Be your own man!" as Adam Candeub, a nominee to be assistant antitrust attorney general, refused to answer yes or no to the question. It then showed John Cronan, nominee for the U.S. Sentencing Commission, and Gregory Cook, a nominee for U.S. judge for the Northern District of Alabama, doing the same....

A Democratic strategist laughed Thursday night on CNN when asked if Donald Trump can stay on message before laying into media outlets that he said were duped into giving the MAGA leader free air time at his news conference Thursday.

Keith Boykin told panelists on "NewsNight" that Trump didn't hold a news conference — he held a campaign rally speech at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club — even bringing MAGA supporters.

"He fooled the press again — once again — by claiming he was going to have a press conference. He spoke for 45 minutes before he even allowed a question to be asked. And when he did, he was just filled with lies over again!"...

It was no accident that Black Republicans made a prominent appearance on the first day of the Republican National Convention, CNN's Jake Tapper said Monday — they're being "highlighted to the nation" as former President Donald Trump and the GOP try to "chip away at the Democratic Party's historically strong hold on African-American voters."

The anchor argued that Black Republicans, including North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, and Reps. Wesley Hunt of Texas, Byron Donalds of Florida and Jon James of Michigan were chosen for the prime time slot.

"It is not a mistake that in this prime-time speaking slot you are seeing a lot of African-American Republicans being highlighted to the nation," he said. ...