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(The Hill) — A Federal Communications Commission (FCC) commissioner has claimed that Vice President Harris’s caller quality connected “Saturday Night Live” violates the "equal time" rule.
“This is simply a wide and blatant effort to evade the FCC's Equal Time rule,” Commissioner Brendan Carr posted connected the societal platform X Saturday successful effect to a station from The Associated Press astir Harris being connected the amusement that night.
“The intent of the regularisation is to debar precisely this benignant of biased and partisan behaviour - a licensed broadcaster utilizing the nationalist airwaves to exert its power for 1 campaigner connected the eve of an election. Unless the broadcaster offered Equal Time to different qualifying campaigns,” Carr, a Trump appointee, continued.
The FCC’s “equal time” rules fto rival candidates inquire for adjacent aerial time.
During her quality connected this week’s occurrence of “SNL” Harris joined comedian Maya Rudolph, who often impersonates her, for a acold unfastened sketch. While Rudolph was playing the vice president, Harris began her “SNL” debut connected the different broadside of a reflector from the comedian.
“I’m conscionable present to punctual you, you got this, due to the fact that you tin bash thing your hostile can’t bash — you tin unfastened doors,” Harris told Rudolph, seemingly referring to a video from earlier successful the week successful which erstwhile President Trump had a hard clip grabbing the grip of a garbage truck.
Democratic statesmanlike nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, right, appears connected NBC's "Saturday Night Live," with Maya Rudolph, left, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024 successful New York. Harris has made an unannounced travel to New York to look concisely stepping distant from the battleground states she's been campaigning successful with conscionable 3 days to spell earlier the election. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Democratic statesmanlike nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, right, appears connected NBC's "Saturday Night Live," with Maya Rudolph, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024 successful New York. Harris has made an unannounced travel to New York to look concisely stepping distant from the battleground states she's been campaigning successful with conscionable 3 days to spell earlier the election. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Democratic statesmanlike nominee Vice President Kamala Harris appears connected NBC's "Saturday Night Live," with Maya Rudolph, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024 successful New York. Harris has made an unannounced travel to New York to look concisely stepping distant from the battleground states she's been campaigning successful with conscionable 3 days to spell earlier the election. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Democratic statesmanlike nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, right, appears connected NBC's "Saturday Night Live," with Maya Rudolph, left, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024 successful New York. Harris has made an unannounced travel to New York to look concisely stepping distant from the battleground states she's been campaigning successful with conscionable 3 days to spell earlier the election. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
Democratic statesmanlike nominee Vice President Kamala Harris appears connected NBC's "Saturday Night Live," with Maya Rudolph, Saturday, Nov. 2, 2024 successful New York. Harris has made an unannounced travel to New York to look concisely stepping distant from the battleground states she's been campaigning successful with conscionable 3 days to spell earlier the election. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
The enforcement shaper of “SNL,” Lorne Michaels, had said successful a past interrogation that neither Harris nor Trump would marque appearances connected his amusement during this predetermination cycle.
“You can’t bring the existent radical who are moving connected due to the fact that of predetermination laws and the adjacent clip provisions,” helium said to The Hollywood Reporter two months ago. “You can’t person the main candidates without having each the candidates, and determination are tons of insignificant candidates that are lone connected the ballot in, like, 3 states and that becomes truly complicated.”
The Hill has reached retired to NBC, the FCC and the Harris run for comment.
