The former CNN anchor made the comment this week.
Former CNN host Chris Cuomo said that he would be “open” to voting for former President Donald Trump over President Joe Biden in the 2024 election.
In the interview, Mr. Cuomo, who frequently criticized the former president while he worked for CNN, said the United States would “survive another” Trump administration. “We survived a Trump administration. Would we survive another? Yes,” he said in a recent interview.
“And for people who are now going to attack me and say, what are you talking about? Trump is like this crazy man. Well, look, you know, as Patrick says, the data is the data. Nobody was trying to kill us when Trump was president in a way that they’re not now,” Mr. Cuomo told Patrick Bet-David, Adam Sosnick, Tom Ellsworth, and Vincent Oshana in a podcast interview.
“So you’re open to a Trump vote?” one of the hosts asked him.
Mr. Cuomo responded, “I am always open. And I’ll tell you this. People say … ‘you’ve never voted for a Republican in your life.’ Wrong.” The former host said he has voted for a GOP candidate, saying that “the first vote I ever cast was for a Republican,” although he didn’t elaborate.
Currently, Mr. Cuomo works for NewsNation after he was suspended indefinitely by CNN in late 2021 over allegations that he helped defend his brother, then-New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, from sexual harassment allegations. He was fired by the company weeks later before joining NewsNation, which is owned by Nexstar Media Group.
After he departed CNN, Mr. Cuomo filed an arbitration claim seeking $125 million from CNN, claiming the firing was “unlawful.”
“It should be obvious by now that Chris Cuomo did not lie to CNN about helping his brother,” said his lawyer, Bryan Freedman, earlier this month. “In fact, as the limited information released from Warner Media’s investigation makes clear, CNN’s highest-level executives not only knew about Chris’ involvement in helping his brother but also actively assisted the governor, both through Chris and directly themselves.”
