Cuomo Slams GOP for Their 'Silence' on Trump's Pelosi Tweet, Says It's Unchristian to Defend Remark

Prior to his one-on-one debate with former Congressman Sean Duffy, CNN host Chris Cuomo asked a rhetorical question: "should you be defending a man when you know it will force you to own the ugliness that he spits out so often that you can't possibly agree with?" Cuomo also asked: "how do you keep your credibility with this kind of silence?" Addressing Duffy, Cuomo proclaimed: "telling the President he's right is being a follower, telling him he's wrong is being a leader and nobody seems to want to do that in your party." The President's tweet about Nancy Pelosi's teeth falling out loomed large throughout the entire segment, with Cuomo calling the comment "an ugly remark that is beneath the presidency." When Duffy dared to suggest that people on both sides of the aisle have a "responsibility...to be more respectful with one another," Cuomo shot back: "why would I take that message from you when you refuse to call out the person who says the ugliest things most constantly?" Cuomo also accused Duffy of ceding "the high ground morally" by not criticizing Trump's tweet and defending Pelosi calling into question the President's manhood and calling him an impostor by saying "she says she prays for him every day and doesn't hate him." Eventually, Cuomo tried calling into question the Christianity of Duffy and every other Republican who defends Trump.  As Duffy explained "we want the freedom of religion," Cuomo complained that "often gets translated into the ability to discriminate against others." Cuomo lectured Duffy: "if you want to hold yourself as a Christian, you can't make any of the arguments you're making right now."