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NewsNation host Chris Cuomo defended the motivations of former President Donald Trump’s supporters during a Tuesday podcast.

Trump garnered over 74 million votes in the 2020 election and is currently leading Vice President Kamala Harris 48% to 47% nationally, according to a Sunday New York Times/Siena College poll. Cuomo, on “The Chris Cuomo Project,” argued that Trump’s supporters back him because he’s “a disruptive force of what they want changed,” not because they are “like Trump.”

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“Man, if you want to punish, Trump is your boy. He is the spirit animal of grievance. Something that we keep getting wrong in the media, and I think a lot of us just in general, is that you think people who support Trump are like Trump, and that’s not true,” Cuomo said. “Most of the people who support Trump are desperate to change the system, and they are willing to swallow everything that he isn’t because of what he is — which is a disruptive force of what they want changed.”

“Doesn’t mean that they’re just all bigots or that they all act like him or think like him or sound like him. They just want what he’s selling them, which is to change, disrupt and break the system,” he continued. “Will he do it? I don’t think so, but that doesn’t matter. That’s for you to decide. That’s for all the voters to decide.”

Trump is leading Harris on the economy 58% to 42% and on inflation 62% to 37%, according to a Sunday CBS/YouGov poll.

Cuomo said during his podcast Sept. 3 that he does not think Trump should face prosecution during the presidential election, despite his belief that some of the cases have merit.

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“I don’t like the cases that were brought against him — two of ’em in New York. The other ones, the classified documents, he did it, okay? Trying to rig this election — he did it,” Cuomo said. “He messed with them in Georgia, and he shouldn’t have, and he knew it. Is it worth prosecuting the guy in the middle of an election? I don’t know. I would say no, and I know that’s crazy.”

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