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- CNN Data Guru Marvels at Trump’s ‘Magic Touch’ Endorsement Record: ‘Heâ€...
CNN data analyst Harry Enten reached for the sports metaphors Thursday morning while marvelling at President Donald Trump’s endorsement record, comparing the president’s influence to Tom Brady and Babe Ruth as Texas Republicans gear up for a high-stakes Senate showdown. Discussing the looming run-off contest between incumbent Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, Enten predicted that Trump’s backing will prove decisive. “You know Trump yesterday on Truth Social essentially said when I endorse it’s a very big deal because for the people that I endorse the endorsees almost always win and as it turns out the president is correct on this,” Enten began. The numbers, he noted, suggest Trump’s record in Republican primaries is nothing short of extraordinary. “He is a GOAT when it comes to Republican primaries. He’s a Tom Brady. He is a Babe Ruth,” Enten exclaimed, pointing to data showing Trump-backed candidates winning 98% of GOP primaries in 2020, 95% in 2022 and 96% in 2024 across congressional and gubernatorial contests. Even when Trump backs challengers running against incumbents, the analyst added, typically a difficult path in party primaries, those candidates “win a majority of the time,” Enten quipped. “President Trump’s endorsement is as good as gold in Republican primaries.” Anchor John Berman joked the comparison might even undersell the president’s success: “When you compare it to Tom Brady, he actually does better than Tom.” Enten argued the president’s influence reflects unusually strong loyalty among Republican voters, explaining that “love” for Trump within his own party at this stage of a second term trounces that for any prior president. “On party supporters, 21st century presidents’ own party approval about at this point in a second term, [George W.] Bush was at 77%, [Barack] Obama was at 77%,” Enten said, pointing at the board. “Look at this: 86% of Republicans approve of the job that Donald Trump is doing at this point. That is higher than either Obama or Bush had within their own party.” He added: “At this point, Trump’s magic touch has not seemed to worn off yet when it comes to the Republican base.” The analyst went further, pointing out that Trump was “the only one” with a majority of supporters offering “strong approval” at this point in their presidency. “Obama was at 48%. Bush was at 47%. You see here Trump at 53%,” he said. “Not as high… [TheTopNews] Read More.15 mins ago - Jon Stewart Marvels at ‘Breathtaking’ Trump ‘Corruption’ and Makes Stunn...Jon Stewart predicted President Donald Trump could end up wrestling away “media properties” for his family from Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison after a sale of Warner Bros. Discovery is approved. On Wednesday’s edition of The Weekly Show, Stewart called Ellison, a supporter of Trump’s, potential purchase of Warner Bros. “breathtaking” corruption. Stewart currently hosts The Daily Show, which airs on Comedy Central, which is owned by Paramount Skydance. Stewart argued Ellison is a “loyalist” and he never saw any real chance in Netflix’s offer to purchase Warner Discovery, especially since CNN falls under their corporate umbrella. “CNN is too big a prize for them to risk handing it over to news people or people who are going to let it just operate. So I never thought Netflix [had a chance]. I always thought they were going to use the lever of FCC approval,” Stewart said. He predicted major changes to CNN once the $110 billion offer to buy Warner gets FCC approval. “I’d be astonished if they don’t walk in there and go like, ‘Hey, nice show you got here, it’d be a shame if something happened to it.’ I think the kinds of changes that you’re seeing at CBS are in the offing,” Stewart said, though he argued the changes could be more drastic as the president has more of a “personal grudge” against CNN. Don’t be surprised, Stewart joked, if you start seeing more “gold cherubs” on CNN’s sets. CBS is owned by Paramount Skydance and changes since that merger announcement include the cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show and Bari Weiss taking over as editor-in-chief of CBS News. Stewart took his prediction a step further and said he wouldn’t be surprised to see Trump’s family, like Donald Trump Jr., end up taking over “media properties” from Ellison. “I wouldn’t be surprised if one of these media properties gets handed over to Trump Inc. that Donald Jr. had his hands in. Look, those guys run a drone company and as far as I know they’re not either one of them real aeronautics guys,” he said. Trump, he added, is going to asking why his family isn’t getting a “taste” of the “empire” eventually. “Look at the financing. There’s a lot of money from, I think, the Middle East that’s going through there. It’s so explicitly corrupt that it’s almost breathtaking,” he said, adding, “This is like real f*cking… [TheTopNews] Read More.24 mins ago
- Cumulus Media files second bankruptcy; $600M at stake
Radio/audio giant Cumulus Media has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, is what is called a prepackaged agreement designed to eliminate $600 million in debt. Daily company operations are expected to continue as usual. Continue Reading → [TheTopNews] Read More.28 mins ago - CNBC Host Grills David Ellison on Whether CNN Will Be ‘More Beholden to the Tr...CNBC’s David Faber asked Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison on Thursday whether CNN would become “more beholden to the Trump administration” if he received approval from President Donald Trump to take over the cable news network like he did with CBS. “Unfortunately, the world we live in has a political overlay on almost everything going on in the corporate world, certainly when it comes to news organizations, and there is certainly a perception, and or a fear perhaps, that once you take control of CNN and given the changes you’ve made at CBS that you will be more beholden to the Trump administration,” said Faber during an interview with Ellison. “Can you address that, that potential fear, at least on the part of many?” Ellison responded, “So look, I’ve said this since the beginning, which is, you know, when it really comes to– editorial independence will absolutely be maintained. It’s maintained at CBS, it’ll be maintained at CNN.” “And really, who we want to talk to is the 70% of Americans and really around the world that identify a center-left and center-right, and we want to be in the truth business, we want to be in the trust business,” he concluded. “That’s not going to change.” Last week, following news that Warner Bros. Discovery had decided to abandon a deal with Netflix in favor of a deal with Ellison’s Paramount Skydance, Variety reported that CNN staffers “devastated,” with “palpable dread” over the possibility of Ellison taking over the network. Ellison – the son of billionaire Trump ally Larry Ellison – took over CBS News last year after the Trump administration approved a merger between Skydance and Paramount Global. Following the merger, Ellison appointed pro-Israel commentator Bari Weiss as CBS News’ new editor-in-chief, and critics say the network’s coverage has shifted towards being more friendly to the Trump administration. In December, it was reported that David Ellison had promised Trump “sweeping changes” at CNN should he succeed in a takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. One month prior, it was also reported that Larry Ellison had spoken with Trump about axing two of the president’s least favorite hosts at CNN: Erin Burnett and Brianna Keilar. Watch above via CNBC.The post CNBC Host Grills David Ellison on Whether CNN Will Be ‘More Beholden to the Trump Administration’ After He Buys It first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.32 mins ago
- Savannah Guthrie Plans to Eventually Return to The Today Show: NBC
Screenshots. NBC has given an update on Today Show host Savannah Guthrie’s future with the program as she continues the family’s desperate search for her 84-year old mother. Nancy Guthrie has been missing from her Arizona home for 32 days. Authorities believe she is the victim of a “burglary gone wrong,” and the Guthrie family is offering a $1 million reward for her recovery. In a statement Thursday, an NBC spokesperson said, “Savannah Guthrie stopped by the studio this morning to be with and thank her ‘TODAY’ colleagues.” The statement continued, “While she plans to return to the show on air, she remains focused right now supporting her family and working to help bring Nancy home.” This just in from NBC PR: "Savannah Guthrie stopped by the studio this morning to be with and thank her TODAY colleagues. While she plans to return to the show on air, she remains focused right now supporting her family and working to help bring Nancy home." — Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) March 5, 2026 CNN media reporter Brian Stelter reported, “This is the first time that NBC has said on the record that Savannah Guthrie plans to come back to @TodayShow at some point.” “Jenna and Sheinelle are talking about Savannah’s visit on the fourth hour of ‘Today’ right now. ‘She said that she has the intention to return to the show – even though it feels like the hardest thing to do, it’s also her home and where she feels so loved,’ @JennaBushHager says,” continued Stelter. “‘Whenever you are ready, we are here,’ @SheinelleJones says, channeling what the co-hosts said to Savannah this morning.” TMZ posted video of Guthrie hugging her co-workers. Savannah Guthrie has returned to the 'TODAY' show studio for the first time since her mom Nancy Guthrie was kidnapped from her bed in the middle of the night more than a month ago. pic.twitter.com/J2LTZiFibw — TMZ (@TMZ) March 5, 2026 According to The Hollywood Reporter, “Jenna Bush Hager and Sheinelle Jones opened the 10 a.m. ET hour on the emotional note, sharing their very obvious affection for their colleague for five full minutes.” Savannah Guthrie been off the air since her mother went missing. “Today alum Hoda Kotb and Sheinelle Jones, a rising talent within the morning show, have mostly filled in for Guthrie aside her co-anchor Craig Melvin,” The Hollywood Reporter said.… [TheTopNews] Read More.41 mins ago - CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Torpedoes Ex-Trump VP Dodge on Troop Deaths Making Trump...CNN anchor and senior White House correspondent Kaitlan Collins pushed back on ex-Trump VP Mike Pence when he tried to dodge a question about Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s complaint that American deaths are “front page news” meant to make President Donald Trump “look bad.” Leavitt attacked Collins at Wednesday’s White House press briefing for calling out Hegseth’s remarks, which he made at a press conference that morning: HEGSETH: This is what the fake news misses. We’ve taken control of Iran’s airspace and waterways without boots on the ground. We control their fate. But when a few drones get through or tragic things happen, it’s front-page news. I get it, the press only wants to make the president look bad – but try for once to report the reality. On Wednesday night’s edition of CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, Collins asked Pence about Hegseth’s complaint, and called BS when the former veep tried to frame it as a media feud: COLLINS: I have to ask you, because you have a family full of service members, your son, your son-in-law– PENCE: Thank you. COLLINS: –who have made such a great commitment to this country. I know you’re so incredibly proud of them, and you often remark on their service. When you heard what the Secretary — Secretary Hegseth said today, about the coverage of the U.S. troop deaths. How does that sit with you? PENCE: Well, let me say, my heart goes out to the precious families of all six of the service members that were struck down, since the initiation of hostilities, and we prayed for their families. And I will tell you, having been to Dover Air Force Base too many times, during my four years as Vice President. And I’m also very, very grateful that the President will be on that tarmac when our heroes come home. We deserve them — nothing — nothing less than honor to be there for their families and to assure them that their names will be enshrined in the hearts of Americans forever. COLLINS: But do you think those comments were fair? I mean, I’ve never heard a Defense Secretary say, There’s too much coverage of troop deaths– PENCE: I– COLLINS: –and that they’re trying to make the President– PENCE: Yes, I don’t want to get in between– COLLINS: –look negative, I believe. PENCE: –you and the administration arguing about media. What I will tell… [TheTopNews] Read More.58 mins ago
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