CNBC’s Joe Kernen Spews Election Conspiracies on ‘Squawk Box’

Joe Kernen said Democratic Party chiefs were “harvesting votes” in 2000 to claim victory for Al Gore and likened the alleged effort to Donald Trump contesting the 2020 result. The right-leaning CNBC host pushed the conspiracy theory that Democrats were vote stealers in a heated discussion on Squawk Box early on Election Day with William Daley, Barack Obama’s former chief of staff, who chaired Gore’s campaign 24 years ago. George W. Bush won the 2000 vote after being adjudged to have taken the deciding state of Florida by just 537...