‘I’m Getting a Little Teed Off Here!’ Bill O’Reilly, Chris Cuomo Throw Down Over Biden-Trump Race

Chris Cuomo and Bill O’Reilly got into a heated exchange on Wednesday evening on NewsNation, with O’Reilly accusing Cuomo multiple times of “misquoting” him on the state of President Joe Biden’s campaign.

O’Reilly kicked off the interview by accusing Cuomo of misquoting him after the NewsNation host said O’Reilly predicted Biden would be “out of the race” by now.

“I didn’t say he would be out of the race already. That’s not true,” O’Reilly said.

“Really?” a surprised Cuomo asked.

“I said the Democratic chieftains have made the decision that Joe has to go. It’s absolutely true,” O’Reilly said.

O’Reilly named Barack Obama and Ron Klain as the two main “chieftains” of the party working behind the scenes to push Biden out, a theory Cuomo balked at.

O’Reilly predicted last month after Biden’s CNN debate against Donald Trump that the decision “has been made” to push him out. A post on X, formerly Twitter, making this claim was given additional “context” by X saying there is “no evidence to support this claim.” O’Reilly said in his posts there was no timeframe for Biden exiting the race.

🚨Here’s a Biden update from https://t.co/rryWmyXe7C news headquarters. The decision has been made that the President will quit the campaign. Two reasons: Democrat internal polling says he cannot recover from the debate, and fundraising is drying up. (1/2) #JoeBiden

— Bill O’Reilly (@BillOReilly) June 30, 2024

Biden has thus far insisted he’s staying in the race and he’s the Democrats’ best chance to defeat former President Donald Trump.

On Wednesday, O’Reilly called Biden’s “big boy” press conference on Thursday evening a “make or break” moment and said if he flubbed it, he’d have to “resign.”

Cuomo pushed back harder on O’Reilly after he accused the media of “covering” for Biden on his health and other issues, including the infamous laptop from his son, Hunter Biden.

“If you think the media has been covering for Biden, you haven’t been watching television for the last week,” Cuomo said, referring to wall-to-wall coverage of Biden’s struggling campaign and reports on concerns about his health.

O’Reilly argued a Democratic donor like George Clooney does not write an op-ed about Biden needing to drop out of the race without coordination with others like Obama and Klain. Cuomo completely dismissed this opinion.

“The idea that Ron Klain is the head of the Democratic Party is laughably absurd,” Cuomo said, calling the former White House chief of staff not very effective.

“I didn’t say he was the head of the Democratic Party,” O’Reilly shot back.

“Yes, you did. You said he’s the second most powerful person in the Democratic Party,” Cuomo said.

“You know, Cuomo, listen, I’m getting a little teed off here. Stop misquoting me! You’re better than that so knock it off!” a heated O’Reilly said.

O’Reilly accused Cuomo of not telling the audience the truth by “misquoting him,” saying he referred to Klain as a main “chieftain” of the party.

“One name: David Axelrod. You think Axelrod’s going on CNN saying Biden has to go without Obama’s approval?” he asked.

“Yes,” Cuomo said.

“Are you that dumb? Are you that dumb?!” O’Reilly asked.

“Yes,” Cuomo repeated.

“Okay, there we go,” O’Reilly said, throwing his hands up.

“David Axelrod says a lot of things without Obama’s approval. You don’t know David Axelrod to know the answer to that question. I can call him right now. That’s the difference. But you can get hot, Bill —” Cuomo said before O’Reilly briefly cut in.

“And they’re going to tell you the truth?” he asked while Cuomo wrapped up his point about O’Reilly being “hot” on the issue.

“— usually it’s a sign of insecurity in a position, just saying,” he said.

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