“CNN Anchor Bursts Into Laughter as Trump Sends Mixed Signals: Vote Early, But Calls It ‘Stupid’—Watch the Hilarious Moment!”

CNN anchor John Berman couldn’t suppress a laugh as he roasted former President Donald Trump for telling his rally crowd to vote early — then seconds later called early voting “stupid.”

Trump held a rally in Indiana, Pennsylvania Monday night, during which — seconds apart — he urged the crowd to vote early:

Early voting begins in Pennsylvania, over the next two weeks, and we need each and every one of you to go out. Just don’t take anything for granted.

We got to get out and vote. You can start right away. You know that, right?

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Now we have this stupid stuff, where you can vote 45 days early. I wonder what the hell happens during that 45. Let’s move the — see these votes? We’ve got about a million votes in there. Let’s move them. We’re fixing the air conditioner in the room, right?

No, it’s terrible. What happened the last time was disgraceful, including right here. But we’re not going to let it happen again. Too — you know too big to rig, right?

On Tuesday morning’s edition of CNN News Central, Berman chuckled as he reported on the remarks, and correspondent Alayna Treene also let out a slight laugh about the “quite contradictory statement”:

JOHN BERMAN: Donald Trump is headed to Georgia today after telling Pennsylvanians early voting is stupid as he tried to get them to vote early. (LAUGHING) CNN’s Alayna Treene is with us this morning.

Sometimes best laid plans, Alayna, you know, don’t don’t work out quite so well.

ALAYNA TREENE: That’s right. It was quite a contradictory statement, actually, from Donald Trump on this. He had first told Pennsylvanians to get out and to vote early before calling it “stupid.”

Look, I mean, the contradictory statements really, I think, exemplify how Donald Trump feels on this issues. He– this issue.

He often argues that he thinks early voting is vulnerable to potential election fraud. He argues it cost him the 2020 election.

But at the same time, Republicans have increasingly embraced early voting. You have the RNC and people like Lara Trump on the RNC pushing for people to vote early, recognizing that it is a necessary tool to help them win in November.