CNN’s Anderson Cooper Confronts Trump Surrogate Marco Rubio In Brutal Segment Over Who Called Trump A Nazi

CNN host Anderson Cooper confronted Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) with his own words and those of other Republicans when Rubio complained about former President Donald Trump being compared to Nazis.

Going into Election Day, the dominant storylines are the bombshell Des Moines Register poll showing Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of Trump in Iowa, and the dizzying sprint of swing state rallies that spit out viral moments at breakneck speed.

Meanwhile, campaign surrogates hit the airwaves in a last-ditch attempt to move the needle, if only microscopically.

On Tuesday’s special Election Day edition of CNN News Central, Cooper asked about Trump calling opponents “evil” and Rubio tried to change the subject. It did not go well for Rubio:

ANDERSON COOPER: I just want to play something that the former president said after midnight last night at his final campaign rally. Take a look.

DONALD TRUMP: She’s a crooked person. She’s a bad person. Evil. She’s an evil, sick, crazy bear. Although. It starts with a B, but I won’t say it. I want to say it.

ANDERSON COOPER: He was actually talking about Nancy Pelosi there. Are you I mean, do you wish– I mean, obviously, there are a lot of people in his campaign who had a very clear idea of what they wanted his closing argument to be, the economy, the border.

Are you concerned about some of the tangents he’s been going off on the last couple of days?

SEN. MARCO RUBIO: Well, this is a guy that’s been called, I mean compared to Adolf Hitler. This is a person whose supporters have been called subhuman garbage and worse, you know, compared to Nazis by major media outlets–.

ANDERSON COOPER: Well you used to– you used to call him a fraud.

SEN. MARCO RUBIO: When people are running campaigns–.

So, I mean, the language has been out that way for a long time.

SEN. MARCO RUBIO: Yeah. Well, let me tell you something. When people keep– being compared, I mean, if you call somebody Adolf Hitler, there’s really nowhere else to go. I mean–.

ANDERSON COOPER: That was his vice president–,.

DONALD TRUMP: That’s worst than you can label anybody. What’s that?

ANDERSON COOPER: That was his vice president who called him Adolf Hitler.

SEN. MARCO RUBIO: No, no, no, no. That was not– that was the major outlets in this country on the eve of an Election.

ANDERSON COOPER: JD Vance called him “America’s Hitler.”

SEN. MARCO RUBIO: Comparing his rallies to Nazi rallies, putting up imagery.

No, Anderson, you know what it is to put up imagery. Maybe it wasn’t your network, although I can point to things in your network that basically just label anything he says as violent rhetoric, including jokes, including things that are clearly off the cuff.

But he has a unique communication style, and he’s not going to change the day before. But this is a guy that’s been subjected to relentless and ruthless attacks against his character, against everything you can imagine. Yeah, he’s going to punch back. There’s no doubt about it. That’s going to happen.

So to argue that in the last 24 hours, Kamala Harris hasn’t mentioned his name after you’ve got Oprah Winfrey last night, I don’t really care. Look, celebrities can endorse whoever they want. But last night she said something at a rally about if you don’t vote today, you may never get a chance to vote again. Really? I mean, come on. This is silly stuff. Yeah. There’s going to be some punch-back–.

ANDERSON COOPER: Your candidate has been saying that for weeks now about. It’s the end of America. It’s the last election. I mean, this is the rhetoric he’s been using. I get it. You’re saying Oprah said it. I mean, and it was J.D. Vance who called him America’s Hitler.

SEN. MARCO RUBIO: Well, J.D. Vance has already addressed that, you know, and he addressed that in the past as he changed his mind. And he feels very differently about Donald Trump today. He’s his running mate and he’s a strong supporter.

Watch above via CNN News Central.