Appearing as a panel member on a special noon edition of Tuesday's At This Hour with Berman and Bolduan, CNN political analyst Carl Bernstein accused Republicans of engaging in "voter suppression" and "voter intimidation" in this year's elections, and claimed that "they don't want a bigger tent and won't say it out loud."
The liberal CNN analyst's comments came at 12:23 p.m. ET during CNN's Election Day coverage. Bernstein:
I think there's another thing to watch through the day, and that is voter suppression, voter intimidation. Regardless of whether it has an impact on tonight, it is an underlying issue in this campaign that ought to concern Republicans all over the country that is going to have a lot to do with the future of how elections are fought in this country.
He added:
It's a disgrace how Republicans have embraced through their secretaries of state, through voter intimidation. The idea that they don't want a bigger tent and won't say it out loud is a real underlying issue that I think we ought to keep our eyes on. We also need to watch out for outside interference, anything having to do with the Internet through today and tonight by the Soviet -- by the Soviet Union -- yes, the old Soviet Union people masquerading as new Russians. I think we have to watch out for that as well.
