‘Whoa! Hold On!’ CNN’s Jim Acosta Cuts Off Ex-Trump Aide — Asks if She’s ‘Insinuating’ Close Election Results Are Suspect

CNN anchor Jim Acosta cut off ex-Trump White House lawyer May Mailman when he thought she was casting doubt on election results from tight races that are still being counted. She claimed she wasn’t but Acosta was not immediately convinced.

There are still congressional races that are too close to call, like California’s 13th congressional district — where Democratic candidate Adam Gray has taken a slim lead over GOP Rep. John Duarte in a bid to flip the seat.

On Wednesday’s edition of CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta, Mailman set off Acosta’s election denial Spidey-Sense by complaining about the ongoing counting of votes so long after Election Day:

MAY MAILMAN: Just putting my American hat on, I’m less concerned about that and more concerned that California is still counting votes. This is something that California really has to figure out. The election was almost a month ago. There are still more than 100,000 votes outstanding.

Some of the tight races, the Republican was up by more than a thousand votes and now they’re losing. They do not even allow voter I.D. They have to–.

JIM ACOSTA: Doesn’t that ha–.

MAY MAILMAN: –deal with signature-matching–

JIM ACOSTA: Hold on a sec! Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! May! all right. Hold on a second. You’re not suggesting that there’s something untoward going on. Please do not tell me that!

KAREN FINNEY: (LAUGHS)

MAY MAILMAN: What I know. So I think these are very, very different things. Right. So viewing this and saying, therefore the election is illegitimate is not what I’m saying. Viewing this and saying–.

JIM ACOSTA: Because Donald Trump won–.

MAY MAILMAN: How do you expect people to love this is completely another.

JIM ACOSTA: No. Okay.

KAREN FINNEY: No, but I think also is it Massachusetts? There’s a couple other places where they’re still count.

JIM ACOSTA: Iowa is very tight–.

KAREN FINNEY: I mean there’s– there shouldn’t be anything wrong with taking the time to count the votes and to make sure you get it right, period. Full stop.

JIM ACOSTA: Yeah. And I don’t want to go down that rabbit hole, but I do have a problem with people who are saying, you know, saying that there might be something untoward going on in certain congressional races when Donald Trump won the presidency.

But, you know, to me, it’s sort of like at some point you just have to have faith in elections in this country or what? What the hell are we doing here?

But, Karen, I do want to ask you about Kamala Harris. Go ahead, May if you want to if you want to weigh in.

MAY MAILMAN: No, I.

JIM ACOSTA: And go down this rabbit hole. I just. I just hope–

MAY MAILMAN: I my my point is not that people should distrust their elections. I work for an organization called Restoring Integrity and Trust in Elections. I just think that California should take a message here and say–

JIM ACOSTA: Right. But as Karen said, there are other elections that haven’t been.

MAY MAILMAN: If Texas can do it they can do it–

JIM ACOSTA: But as Karen said, there are other elections that haven’t been called. So you’re insinuating that California is up to no good? Is that what you’re doing, May? You might as well just say just say it.

MAY MAILMAN: I’m insinuating that California should not have 100,000 votes outstanding three weeks after the election. I think that we we can all agree that that they should do better. If we can’t agree on that, then–.

JIM ACOSTA: If you’re just saying hurry up, California, that’s fine. Yeah, okay. That’s fine. I want to move on because I don’t I really don’t want to do that.

Watch above via CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta.