CNN Crew Cracks Up At ‘White Women For Kamala’ Alternative Nickname — ‘Karens For Kamala’

CNN anchor Jim Acosta and his panel cracked up at an alternative name suggested on a record-breaking “White Women For Kamala” Zoom call — the celeb-coined “Karens For Kamala.”

A group called “White Women for Kamala” convened a Zoom call Thursday night to support the presumptive Democratic nominee — attracting over 160,000 participants.

On Friday’s edition of CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta, Acosta played some clips from the call, including a suggestion from actress Connie Britton that drew laughs in the studio:

JIM ACOSTA: I mean, last night, more than 100,000 women participated in what was described as a, quote, “white women for Harris” call– that’s what they are calling it, that’s not what I am calling it — on Zoom.

A number so staggering that it apparently broke the call. Let’s listen to a little bit. There were some celebrities on it. Let’s listen.

MEGAN RAPINOE: White women. This is our opportunity to show up not only for ourselves, but for Black women. They’ve given us the whole playbook on how to show up and energize and be organized.

P!NK: I’m just really grateful that us women are going to have a voice and we’ve always made our voices heard. And now it’s time to just get extra loud.

CONNIE BRITTON: Interesting! White women! I mean, here we are. I have to admit, when I was writing stuff down, I was like, Karens for Kamala? I don’t know.

(LAUGHTER)

JIM ACOSTA: You’re all laughing. They’re — because it’s okay. They’re just having fun there.

But, Chuck, you were at the VP’s house yesterday where she honored the Latino community. So there was this very, determined outreach to the various constituencies of the Democratic, just coalescing it behind Kamala Harris.

And, I mean, we could I think we could all agree. Jeff. Karen, if you were to say, you know, was the Democratic Party going to coalesce around Kamala Harris in this fashion in just a short period of time that we’ve seen, you would have said, no way. That’s crazy!

But that is what has happened this past week.

CHUCK ROCHA: And it’s very different. And being with a small group of Latino leaders that were invited to her house a week or two ago before all this broke, you know, I give her credit for honoring her commitment. She could have easily canceled that and been somewhere else.

But she kept that to make sure she knew. And we knew her commitment to our community. And these folks are like my family. These are Latino leaders who I’ve been, grew up, grow up with. And two weeks ago on our group chats and all of our stuff, there was a lot of depression. Like we were worried about what was going on.

You cannot understand the palpitation of the energy around that backyard last night and what she was saying, like, it’s very different. I’ve been doing this for over 30 years, and what Karen got to is the most important thing, which is the energy.

We’ve all been running a campaign to beat Donald Trump. Now we can run a campaign to beat Donald Trump and elect the first Black woman to the presidency. That’s like gold dust to Democrats.

JIM ACOSTA: Yeah.

Watch above via CNN Newsroom With Jim Acosta.