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Woke Activist Shames Anderson Cooper at Sanders Town Hall

&NewLine;<p>A woke activist embarrassed CNN’s Anderson Cooper over his misuse of &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;their” pronouns at a recent Bernie Bro’s Town Hall&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Cooper&comma; an openly gay man and darling of the left-wing media&comma; committed the &&num;8220&semi;woke faux pas&&num;8221&semi; after he misgendered activist Grace Thomas as &&num;8220&semi;they&&num;8221&semi; prepared to ask the Vermont senator a question&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;She&&num;8217&semi;s a local civil rights attorney&semi; she&&num;8217&semi;s a Democrat&comma; Grace&quest;&&num;8221&semi; he said as he spoke on CNN before he was shot down by Thomas&period; Who retorted&comma; &&num;8220&semi;It&&num;8217&semi;s they&sol;them pronouns&comma; actually&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Thomas corrected him&comma; to which Cooper quickly responded&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Oh&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Thomas went on to ask &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;their” question about why the Democratic Party is hemorrhaging young male voters&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The best part is that right after scolding Anderson Cooper for not calling her &OpenCurlyQuote;they&comma;’ she asks a question about why Democrats are losing men&comma;” one X user joked&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Anderson Cooper just misgendered a civil rights attorney&comma;&&num;8221&semi; another X user wrote in a post&period; &&num;8220&semi;They are not serious&period; Keep on putting the pronoun police on camera&semi; we will win every election&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Some Republicans even felt sorry for the news anchor in the wake of the fallout&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I’m going to defend Anderson Cooper here&comma;” a third X user wrote&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;That’s something I don’t often do&period; But it was entirely reasonable for him to assume that this woman would naturally use female pronouns&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>He added&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Her rebuke of him was a snarky&comma; gotcha moment&period; Who else found that highly irritating&quest;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>Widening Gender Gap<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Despite the embarrassing faux pas for the left-wing host&comma; Grace&&num;8217&semi;s comment brought up a very real problem for Dems – the widening gender gap&period; 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&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The Republicans secured an astonishing 57&percnt; of men under 30&comma; a 24-point margin over Kamala Harris and the Democrats&comma; according to estimates from AP VoteCast surveys&period; That represented a major turnaround from 2020&comma; when Joe Biden secured 56&percnt; of young male voters&comma; to 41&percnt; for President Trump&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Young white and Latino men shifted dramatically to President Trump in the 2024 election by 22 points and 38 points&comma; respectively&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The share of young men who identify as Republicans has also grown steadily in the past decade&comma;&nbsp&semi;according to&nbsp&semi;Gallup polling data&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>In 2016&comma; the year President Trump first took the White House&comma; more than half &lpar;51&percnt;&rpar; of young men identified as Democrat or leaned toward the Democratic Party&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>But by 2023&comma; that figure had fallen to 38&percnt;&comma; with more young men identifying as Republican than Democrat for the first time since 2003&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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