At the end of Tuesday’s CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish led a discussion about the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee’s (DCCC) endorsement of moderate Democrats over progressive, far-left candidates. Democratic analyst Maria Cardona said the voters wanted fighters instead, and pushed back on Cornish’s comparison of 2026 Democratic candidates to Republican candidate issues in the 2022 midterms. Cornish introduced the DCCC-endorsed candidates as “handpicked” and quoted House Democrats in an Axios article who were upset with the endorsement choices: (...) And some of them, frankly, are being outraised when it comes to money. One Democratic lawmaker tells Axios, quote, "I think the DCCC owes House Democrats an explanation, and I would not be surprised if a number of members decide to put their DCCC giving on hold. Some of these decisions are very perplexing.   At the end of Tuesday's CNN This Morning, host Audie and her panel discussed DCCC endorsements of Dem moderates over more progressive candidates, as CNN seemingly took the side of the progressive "fighters" in the endorsement disarray. pic.twitter.com/LQ7gzZ0WjW — Nick (@nspin310) May 5, 2026   The host compared the situation to progressive Graham Platner in Maine, best known for his Nazi tattoo, and asked if the Democratic establishment was losing: “And you have Platner, who is going to the forefront without that establishment backing. Is the House seeing the same problem?” Axios reporter Alex Thompson said the definition of “electability” had changed, as he echoed how Platner had gotten away with his Nazi tattoo scandal in the eyes of some Dems: Now, there is something to be said for the Democratic establishment, not necessarily reading the mood of the voters. And just because you recruit somebody who is, quote/unquote, "electable," the definition of electability and what is, you know, disqualifying is changing clearly. Cornish built off Thompson’s point and compared Democrats in 2026 to Republicans in 2022 in terms of candidate quality. She also said the “age of Trump” lets politicians get away with some things, which apparently included Nazi tattoos. Cardona said Democrats actually have good candidates and then went straight towards the voters “want fighters” line. She said, “Exactly. And I think that is the trend that voters have said, this is what we want. They want fighters, like I said before, because they feel like they have been left behind by this White House, by this Congress.”   Conservative panelist @MehekCooke took her opportunity in the panel discussion to describe the problems of the Democratic party as a whole, which led to Cardona and Cornish jumping back into the discussion. pic.twitter.com/QrCk0aqf4K — Nick (@nspin310) May 5, 2026   Conservative panelist Mehek Cooke stepped in and took the opportunity to describe the problems of the Democratic Party as a whole:  So, the infighting is because you have radicals today. You want to tax the rich. So, in New York you have Mamdani, you have Gavin Newsom that has billions of dollars but can't get rid of homelessness. They don't actually have solutions. And I'm asking Democrats today, what is your solutions to keep costs down? It can't continue to be “tax the rich.” Most of this party is imploding because they have forgotten the Obama days and even Bill Clinton. The common sense, they continue to attack, and it's TDS. It's never about solutions for the American people. Cornish stepped in and said, “there’s a lot to unpack there,” as Cardona disagreed completely with Cooke. Cornish compared it to the Tea Party and said there “was a lot of complaining then” as she also thought “Democrats might be going through something similar now.” The debate over far-left candidates aligned closer to the Bernie Sanders and AOC wing of the party on a mainstream liberal network was a sign that the far-left might had already taken over parts of the party, as CNN seems more aligned with the “fighters” than moderates. The transcript is below. Click "expand": CNN This Morning May 5, 2026 6:56:20 AM Eastern (...) AUDIE CORNISH: I want to talk more about Congress, because we're just a few months out from midterms. Democrats hoping for a blue wave. They're fighting about how to achieve that. On Monday, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee made eight endorsements in races to flip Republican seats. Now, most of those handpicked candidates still face contested primaries. And some of them, frankly, are being outraised when it comes to money. One Democratic lawmaker tells Axios, quote, "I think the DCCC owes House Democrats an explanation, and I would not be surprised if a number of members decide to put their DCCC giving on hold. Some of these decisions are very perplexing." So, we're hitting up Alex, talking about Axios reporting, because earlier this week I was just talking with the panel about Senator Schumer's recruits, who are also in tough primaries. And we saw that the biggest issue in Maine, where the Democratic candidate, Janet Mills, dropped out. And you have Plattner, who is going to the forefront without that establishment backing. Is the House seeing the same problem? ALEX THOMPSON: Well, actually, I would say, there were some Democrats that wanted Hakeem Jeffries and the DCCC to be doing this much earlier, the way that Schumer is. And - CORNISH: You mean just announcing who they want? THOMPSON: Yes, exactly. CORNISH: Okay. THOMPSON: And trying to clear - also trying to clear the field ahead of time. CORNISH: Yeah. THOMPSON: Because now, as we were talking about, they have these contested primaries. Now, there is something to be said for the Democratic establishment, not necessarily reading the mood of the voters. And just because you recruit somebody who is, quote/unquote, "electable," the definition of electability and what is, you know, disqualifying is changing clearly - CORNISH: Yeah, very much. THOMPSON: - with voters. And that's one of the things that you saw in Maine, which is one of the things that was a debacle for Schumer. CORNISH: Yeah. THOMPSON: Although he would argue he got some other good recruits in North Carolina and Ohio. CORNISH: Can you guys talk about that? Because at the end of the day we are now seeing Democrats go through what Republicans went through back in 2023, '22, where it was like candidate quality. What does it mean to be a quality candidate in the age of Trump, where people cannot get away with what Trump gets away with, but it's not clear scandal and controversy is going to take you down? MARIA CARDONA: Well, I think for Democrats, they are looking at a field where they have very good candidates. And again, and I will keep repeating this, that is why Democrats continue to win in places where they really don't have any business winning. CORNISH: Right, in all these little off-year elections. CARDONA: Exactly. And I think that is the trend that voters have said, this is what we want. They want fighters, like I said before, because they feel like they have been left behind by this White House, by this Congress. CORNISH: It's always the style of fight that is the question, right? MEHEK COOKE: Yes, and that -  CORNISH: That happened with Trump. When Trump came along, Republicans were like, this is not how we do things well. COOKE: Well, but I think what the Democrat Party today is facing is what we -- they should have actually looked at when the midterms were going on and before when Trump won. Remember, they actually never did a postmortem to see, why did we lose? So, the infighting is because you have radicals today. You want to tax the rich. So, in New York you have Mamdani, you have Gavin Newsom that has billions of dollars but can't get rid of homelessness. They don't actually have solutions. And I'm asking Democrats today, what is your solutions to keep costs down? It can't continue to be “tax the rich.” Most of this party is imploding because they have forgotten the Obama days and even Bill Clinton. The common sense, they continue to attack and it's TDS. It's never about solutions for the American people - CORNISH: There's a lot to unpack there.  COOKE: - It's continuing to push down against President Trump. CORNISH: But I do think it's worth - CARDONA: Yeah, I don't - I don't think - I don't think you can - CORNISH: I remember when the Tea Party came along. It was like - CARDONA: Yeah. CORNISH: What? None of these things are - you know, there was a lot of complaining. CARDONA: I don't think you can say - CORNISH: And I think Democrats might be going through something similar now. CARDONA: I don't think you can say - COOKE: I just don't hear solutions. CARDONA: I don't think you can say that the Democratic Party is imploding when we are trouncing Republican candidates left and right and up and down. CORNISH: Yes. Well, at least we can say disarray. I stayed away from that Acme term, Democrats in disarray. CARDONA: Right. CORNISH: You're welcome. CARDONA: We are in a very good position. (...)

Tuesday’s CBS Mornings was a great reminder of how far some segments of CBS News still have to go under it’s remaking to be a news outlet reflecting the center of the country because it certainly isn’t rhetorically drooling over the Met Gala honoring Monday night perhaps the single greatest achievement in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) bingo: a black, trans, quadriplegic with cerebral palsy in a wheelchair. Add that up, and that’s at least six if you were to include the fake woman part as “model and musician Ariana Rose Philip” is a man pretending to be a woman. CBS found this to be “quite a moment,” “stunning in black” and “very cool, very cool.” Tuesday’s ‘CBS Mornings’ fawned over the black, trans, quadriplegic with cerebral palsy in a wheelchair "Ariana Rose Philip" appearing at the Met Gala, calling it “quite a moment,” “stunning in black” and “very cool, very cool” CBS also touted a Meta Gala Costume Institute… pic.twitter.com/1oSwIj3Fvl — Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) May 5, 2026 CBS unsurprisingly made extra time for the Met Gala compared to ABC and NBC because co-host Gayle King was, once again, in attendance as a celebrity scaling the steps (as opposed to someone covering it on the margins). With Christina Aguilera’s Glam playing as they came out of a commercial break, featured co-host Vladimir Duthiers said, “we’re going to keep the conversation going” about the Meta Gala by “show[ing] you some of the debuts that spoke to inclusion on the red carpet.” After first spotlighting “model and activist Lauren Wasser” and her nickname of The Girl With the Golden Legs, Duthiers pivoted to Philip: Let’s talk about model and musician Ariana Rose Philip who celebrated her first Gala. Philip — who has quadriplegic cerebral palsy — is recognized as the first black, transgender, and physically disabled model to sign with a major agency. She said, “girls, I’ve made it.” “Very cool, very cool,” Duthiers remarked after reading this brief, to which King gushed it was “quite a moment.” Not to be left out in having to validate this moment seemingly first concocted at The Babylon Bee, co-host Nate Burleson had to offer his own fawning praise: “Stunning in all black!” CBS wasn’t done. Before continuing to talk about the Met Gala through the lens of actor Timothée Chalamet skipping festivities to attend the 76ers-Knicks playoff game, Duthiers had one more mind-blowing piece of DEI histrionics concerning an exhibit at the Met on mannequins:  So, Philip was one of the human models for mannequins at this popular Met Gala Costume Institute exhibit. The exhibit is called Costume Art, includes a handful of mannequins, bodies in wheelchairs, pregnant bodies, trans bodies, and bodies with missing limbs. The Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton says the goal of this year’s exhibit is to reclaim the body. Very cool. “Pregnant bodies,” CBS? Seriously? To see the relevant CBS transcript from May 5, click “expand.” CBS Mornings May 5, 2026 7:48 a.m. Eastern NATE BURLESON: Time now for What to Watch —  GAYLE KING: Watch. BURLESON: — with Vlad. VLADIMIR DUTHIERS: Don’t let the clothes wear you. KING: Yes, yes. DUTHIERS: Runway on fire. KING: Yes, yes. DUTHIERS: A little Christina Aguilera Glam to talk about the Met Gala. We’re going to keep that conversation going. We want to show you some of the debuts that spoke to inclusion on the red carpet. Check this out. Model and activist Lauren Wasser, nicknamed The Girl With the Golden Legs, was there in a gold Prabal Gurung suit. She lost both legs to toxic shock syndrome. She is an advocate for a bill promoting the safety of intimate products. Isn’t that cool —  KING: Yeah. DUTHIERS: — that she is known as The Girl With the Golden Legs? KING: Yes, yes, very glamorous. Yeah. DUTHIERS: Incredibly glamorous. Stunning. Stunning. BURLESON: Yeah. DUTHIERS: Let’s talk about model and musician Ariana Rose Philip who celebrated her first Gala. Philip — who has quadriplegic cerebral palsy — is recognized as the first black, transgender, and physically disabled model to sign with a major agency. She said, “girls, I’ve made it.” KING: Yeah. DUTHIERS: Very cool, very cool. KING: Quite a moment. BURLESON: Stunning in all black. DUTHIERS: So, Philip was one of the human models for mannequins at this popular Met Gala Costume Institute exhibit. The exhibit is called Costume Art, includes a handful of mannequins, bodies in wheelchairs, pregnant bodies, trans bodies, and bodies with missing limbs. The Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton says the goal of this year’s exhibit is to reclaim the body. Very cool. KING: Mmhmm. Mmhmm.

In remarks on The Dana Show Tuesday with host Dana Loesch, Media Research Center (MRC) President David Bozell announced the MRC had honored Loesch with its 2026 Bulldog Award for Outstanding Radio Talk Show Host, praising her as “principled” and someone who “brings receipts.” He credited her consistency, saying, “She brings it every single day,” calling her “a terrific host” with nationwide syndication. Bozell said the recognition fits within the broader mission of the MRC’s Bulldog Awards, which are designed to highlight journalists and commentators who challenge what he sees as dominant narratives in elitist media. He argued that traditional awards like the Pulitzer Prize too often reward coverage that reflects ideological bias, most recently The Washington Post's reporting on government spending and reform efforts. The MRC Bulldog Awards are our solution to the leftist Pulitzer Prizes, which just gave the Washington Post the Prize for Public Service. The Pulitzers are a joke.@DavidBozell @DLoesch @DanaLoeschRadio pic.twitter.com/OCigu8LM3a — Media Research Center (@theMRC) May 5, 2026 Bozell called out the Post's negative reporting of efforts to reduce federal bureaucracy and spending, noting that President Trump was elected by more than 77 million Americans with a mandate to cut waste and debt. Despite that, he said, elitist media outlets frame those efforts negatively. Loesch brought up a new Rasmussen survey suggesting that a majority of Americans believe intensely negative media coverage of political figures may contribute to real-world violence, including the three assassination attempts against President Trump.  New polling suggests 60% of voters believe it's at least "somewhat likely" that hostile media coverage inspired the latest assassination attempt on Trump. It's no surprise when the media give the President over 95% negative coverage.@DavidBozell @DLoesch @DanaLoeschRadio pic.twitter.com/XE93bDM6ym — Media Research Center (@theMRC) May 5, 2026 Bozell tied the issue to the fallout from the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting, where late-night commentary and jokes sparked debate about tone and responsibility in political media. Bozell argued that reactions from elitist media figures illustrated a tendency to close ranks rather than reflect on broader concerns about coverage. Bozell concluded that the Bulldog Awards exist to recognize alternative reporting and to encourage greater balance, accountability, and independence in journalism.  

Not much unlike the lopsided gerrymandering popping up across the country in Democrat-run states from California to Virginia, the Big Four News Apps are tilting the media and information map to almost completely favor one side, the left. Take the state where the Media Research Center is headquartered, for example. Democrats’ redistricting effort in Virginia could effectively turn a relatively balanced state with a six-Democrat to five-Republican jurisdictional split into a 10-to-1 jurisdictional tyranny.  As many Americans likely saw in reports across the Big Four News Apps (Apple News, Google News, Microsoft’s MSN and Yahoo News) on Wednesday morning, Democrats may have scored a narrow redistricting referendum victory on April 21 that could do just that. And while an April 28 Virginia Supreme Court denial of a request to “stay” an injunction against the referendum perhaps offers a glimpse of hope for Republicans living in the state, even if the referendum vote is ultimately upheld, at least there was actually a democratized process by which citizens could make their voices heard. Not so for the news and information being pumped out by default on the Big Four News Apps. MRC Free Speech America research on the Big Four News Apps makes one thing clear: the news aggregators are overwhelmingly pushing elitist media outlets promoting a left-wing agenda.  So, yes, a 10-to-1 ratio is bad if you’re in the minority in Virginia. But if you’re getting news and information from the Big Four News Apps in America, the ratio is much worse. Try 14-to-1! That’s the left-to-right ratio getting pumped out by the Big Four News Apps onto Americans’ digital devices. A recent MRC Special Report gives the breakdown: “Throughout the first five months of MRC-collected data, the Big Four News Apps promoted a whopping 7,265 articles from left-leaning outlets out of a total 10,338 articles from AllSides-rated outlets in their morning editions. That means the Big Four News Apps promoted leftist sources 70% of the time. Compare that gaudy figure to the paltry 539 articles (5%) from right-leaning outlets, and the overt bias of the Big Four News Apps becomes abundantly clear.” The first half of April didn’t look much better. From the same report: “The Big Four News Apps promoted 799 articles (65%) from left-leaning outlets out of a total of 1,222 articles from April 1 - April 18, 2026. Meanwhile, the news aggregators promoted a paltry 72 articles (6%) from right-leaning outlets during the same period.” And with the Big Four News Apps collectively reaching over 100 million Americans each week, the volume of articles from elitist media getting pushed to the masses is massive. But it’s not just the sheer volume that the Big Four News Apps use to stack the deck against conservative thought. As noted earlier, it’s also the messaging that is being pushed from a leftist perspective.  One-sided messaging coupled with volume can pack a horrible punch.  MRC President David Bozell put it plainly in his recent Op-Ed with the Washington Examiner headlined “Rig the headlines, shift the polls.” Bozell wrote, “If millions of Americans are exposed to a steady stream of negative framing, stripped of context and alternative perspectives, it should not be surprising when polling begins to reflect that environment.” Look no further than two recent MRC Special Reports for just how lopsided the messaging is.  The first, headlined “Special Report: 634 Left vs. 41 Right — While Trump Fights Iran, Big Four News Apps Attack Trump,” exposed the Big Four News Apps for favoring leftist outlets over right-leaning outlets in Iran war coverage. From the Special Report: “Despite the unprecedented success of the U.S.-led action, the news aggregators’ curation of stories ensured that most Iran coverage in its top 20 morning editions from March 1 through April 19 came from left-leaning outlets, often using sensational, negative and fear-driven framing that undercut the United States and undermined the Trump administration’s efforts to win the war.” Drilling down more into the individual articles the news aggregators shared reveals just how potent messaging can be. One glaring example from the Iran war coverage: Google News promoted leftist rag The Atlantic, which attempted to explain “Trump’s Logic for Blockading the Blockaders” in the Strait of Hormuz. The subheader from the outlet read, “He wants to use economic pain to weaken Iran—even if that threatens the global economy.” At least three other articles, from right-leaning outlets (American Thinker, Hot Air and New York Post) could have actually provided a glimpse into what Trump’s logic might have been, but Google News did not deign to share those stories with its viewers. The second MRC Special Report, headlined “Special Report: 0 Out of 255 Stories: Google News, Microsoft’s MSN & Yahoo News Ignore SPLC Scandal,” detailed how the three news aggregators ignored the Southern Poverty Law Center DOJ indictment altogether in their top stories in the mornings after the scandal broke. Similarly glaring, as revealed in this piece, were the articles that the Big Four News Apps refused to promote in the morning editions. Fox News, the New York Post, Breitbart News, Newsmax and The Daily Wire all wrote on the SPLC indictment, but none of them made the top 20 stories in the Big Four News Apps’ morning editions. The Big Four News Apps aren’t just biased—they’re digital news gerrymanderers, rigging the information landscape and drowning out conservative voices. This is the opposite of fair play, suppressing right-leaning outlets that millions of Americans rely on for balanced coverage and ensuring that the elitist media’s left-wing narratives dominate unchecked. At MRC Free Speech America, we're sounding the alarm loud and clear: Americans deserve transparency and balance, not tech tyranny. And we will continue to expose the Big Four News Apps for their bias and suppression of right-leaning outlets. 

House and Senate Republicans say they haven’t forgotten their pledge to ensure voter integrity by passing the Democrat-stalled SAVE America Act. “We haven't forgotten the SAVE America Act,” former North Carolina Congressman Mark Meadows told Senate Republicans Monday in a X.com post. “No we haven’t,” Rep. Tim Burchett (R-Tenn.) replied, reassuring Americans that they haven’t given up, despite Senate Democrats’ continued filibuster. “We must never forget about the SAVE America Act Not for a moment Until it passes,” Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah) replied. “If we pass the SAVE America Act, we will save America If we don’t, we will lose it,” Sen. Lee warned, posting video of President Donald Trump explaining the need to overcome Senate resistance to passing the voter ID act. Trump also cited “two reasons” that Republicans will dominate the midterm elections, if they pass the measure requiring voter ID: “Number one: they won’t be able to cheat. And number two: the people are demanding it.”   If we pass the SAVE America Act, we will save America If we don’t, we will lose it pic.twitter.com/Gc07SX848U — Mike Lee (@BasedMikeLee) May 3, 2026   On Sunday, Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) also stressed the importance of passing the SAVE America Act, in a post noting its popularity with the American public: “Over 80% of Americans support voter ID. “95% of Republicans. 71% of Democrats. “The AMERICAN people. This is a no-brainer. “The Senate needs to pass the SAVE America Act and get it to the President's desk before midterms. The integrity of our democracy depends on it.” Indeed, as CNSNews has reported, a Pew Research study of U.S. adults shows broad general, as well as minority, support for voter I.D. requirements: 82% of Latinos favor photo ID to vote. 76% of black Americans favor photo ID to vote. 85% of white people favor photo ID to vote. 83% of all U.S. adults favor photo ID to vote. “Only American citizens should vote in American elections. Pass the Save America Act,” Rep. Mace followed up on Monday. “We MUST pass the SAVE America Act. The future of our country depends on it,” Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) posted Saturday – prompting Sen. Lee to agree – telling Republicans “We should act like” the country’s future is at stake: “America’s future depends on passage of the SAVE America Act We should act like it—and get it done.”