A fiery segment featuring CNN’s Jim Acosta and Georgia Republican Party Chairman Josh McKoon on Thursday culminated with Acosta calling McKoon’s claims “horsecrap” and accusing him of “lying” live on air.
During an extended debate over the results of the 2020 election, which Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and various supporters have erroneously claimed Trump won, Acosta repeatedly pressed McKoon over whether he would accept the results of the 2024 election.
After playing a clip of Trump asking Georgia’s Republican secretary of state to “find” the number of votes he would need to surpass Joe Biden four years ago, McKoon insisted that Trump was only referring to “allegations that were made about people that were allowed to vote that should not have been allowed to vote under Georgia law,” which caused Acosta to insist that “that’s not what happened.”
The pair sparred over what Trump meant in the clip before the anchor eventually brought the conversation back around to 2024 and asked McKoon if Trump should “honor the results” if he “comes up short” again.