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The late shift. “Trump’s FCC colluded with corporate media executives at CBS, but I think it’s safe to say that their plan backfired,” Texas state Rep. James Talarico said at a campaign rally in Austin last night, after a day in which all the talk in the razor-close Democratic Senate primary was about his interview with Stephen Colbert that didn’t air.
A chuckling Jasmine Crockett, Talarico’s opponent in the primary, shook her head during an appearance on MS NOW at what she agreed was another instance of a network making moves to avoid any trouble with Donald Trump. “I think it’s probably better that he didn’t get on and they went straight to streaming,” Crockett joked of the millions of views Talarico’s unaired interview racked up online yesterday, though she praised Colbert’s move to make the dispute with network lawyers public.
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“It is important that we resist in this moment,” Crockett said.