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Kamala Harris ‘SNL’ Appearance May Have Violated FCC ‘Equal Time’ Rule, Trump-Appointed Commissioner Claims


Kamala Harris' appearance on NBC's 'SNL' appeared to violate the FCC 'equal time' rule, Trump-appointed commissioner Brendan Carr claimed.

Kamala Harris ‘ surprise appearance on NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” on Nov. 2 was “a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC ‘s Equal Time rule,” Republican commissioner Brendan Carr claimed in a social media post. The FCC’s rules on political programming “seek to ensure that no legally qualified candidate for office is unfairly given less access to the airwaves — outside of bona fide news exemptions — than their opponent,” according to the agency. In a post on X on Saturday evening before Harris’s “SNL” appearance, Carr, who is a Trump appointee, wrote, “The purpose of the rule is to avoid exactly this type of biased and partisan conduct — a licensed broadcaster using the public airwaves to exert its influence for one candidate on the eve of an election.

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