In a clip that had gone viral on Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell humorously declared that he would indeed fill a Supreme Court vacancy if one were to become available during the 2020 election. Pouncing on the “hypocrisy,” CNN host Chris Cuomo angrily proclaimed the elder statesman to be the “poster child” for deceitfulness and “all things wrong with politics.”

Cuomo ended Tuesday’s Prime Time with a diatribe railing against McConnell and President Trump. After declaring “shame” on the Majority Leader, he suggested that McConnell was not “the problem” but “a symptom, like a fever rash, or clammy hands, or gas.”

The opposition campaign began with Cuomo trying the rally viewers to the polls to change “the game” themselves. “You control all of it. What McConnell does, what deals are made, they’re all vote in or out these people and they act in no fear of consequence more than good conscience. You just saw it,” he exclaimed. “Witness McConnell for what he is.”

The show was capped off with Cuomo demanding that the voters in Kentucky rise up and oust McConnell from office:

If you were to look at this and say, “I don't want to see another one of these guys do this again. I hate this.” If you feel like that and you’re in Kentucky, there will never be another Mitch McConnell moment like this if he gets voted out. These people are only as bad as you allow them to be. Elections do have consequences. Remember your power, people. Remember it. Remember to use it. This will be my clarion call to you during this election. It's all about you. You get what you want in a democracy. That's why Mitch McConnell is able to play the game, because he is kept a player in it.

CNN claims Cuomo is a journalist, but here he very much appeared to be a Democratic campaign spokesperson.

Shortly before getting to that point, Cuomo knocked the intelligence of President Trump’s supporters for not seeing that their candidate was everything that they hated about Washington, D.C. He then seemed to contradict himself by suggesting Trump supporters saw the then-candidate “not as a cure but almost like a virus inserted into the corpus of politics to set about making it sick, as a way, I guess, of hopefully sweating itself out of the fever of favoritism they reject.”

He added: “He is a reflection of what we have let our system become.”

“These people are only as bad as you allow them to be”? How dehumanizing. Now, despite this clear and open call to oust McConnell and Trump at the polls, CNN will continue to falsely claim they are not a political organization.

The transcript is below, click "expand" to read: