Woke Activist Shames Anderson Cooper at Sanders Town Hall

A woke activist embarrassed CNN’s Anderson Cooper over his misuse of “their” pronouns at a recent Bernie Bro’s Town Hall.

Cooper, an openly gay man and darling of the left-wing media, committed the “woke faux pas” after he misgendered activist Grace Thomas as “they” prepared to ask the Vermont senator a question.

“She’s a local civil rights attorney; she’s a Democrat, Grace?” he said as he spoke on CNN before he was shot down by Thomas. Who retorted, “It’s they/them pronouns, actually,” Thomas corrected him, to which Cooper quickly responded, “Oh.”

Thomas went on to ask “their” question about why the Democratic Party is hemorrhaging young male voters.

“The best part is that right after scolding Anderson Cooper for not calling her ‘they,’ she asks a question about why Democrats are losing men,” one X user joked.

“Anderson Cooper just misgendered a civil rights attorney,” another X user wrote in a post. “They are not serious. Keep on putting the pronoun police on camera; we will win every election.”

Some Republicans even felt sorry for the news anchor in the wake of the fallout.

“I’m going to defend Anderson Cooper here,” a third X user wrote. “That’s something I don’t often do. But it was entirely reasonable for him to assume that this woman would naturally use female pronouns.”

He added: “Her rebuke of him was a snarky, gotcha moment. Who else found that highly irritating?”

Widening Gender Gap

Despite the embarrassing faux pas for the left-wing host, Grace’s comment brought up a very real problem for Dems – the widening gender gap. The huge swing of young male voters across race and class boundaries toward President Trump was one of the most startling takes from November’s presidential election.

The Republicans secured an astonishing 57% of men under 30, a 24-point margin over Kamala Harris and the Democrats, according to estimates from AP VoteCast surveys. That represented a major turnaround from 2020, when Joe Biden secured 56% of young male voters, to 41% for President Trump.

Young white and Latino men shifted dramatically to President Trump in the 2024 election by 22 points and 38 points, respectively.

The share of young men who identify as Republicans has also grown steadily in the past decade, according to Gallup polling data.

In 2016, the year President Trump first took the White House, more than half (51%) of young men identified as Democrat or leaned toward the Democratic Party.

But by 2023, that figure had fallen to 38%, with more young men identifying as Republican than Democrat for the first time since 2003.