CNN’s Coverage of Trump Was Biased, Presidential Candidates’ Aides Say

In extraordinary exchanges, aides to Sen Marco Rubio (R-FL), Sen Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Jeb Bush openly accused Jeffrey Zucker, CNN’s president, of enabling Donald Trump and undermining their candidates in the Republican primary, heckling from their seats as Zucker spoke on a panel in a hotel ballroom. It was a visceral airing of grievances before an audience of the country’s leading political operatives and journalists, gathered for what is typically a staid postelection conference at Harvard. And it captured CNN’s lightning-rod position in the debate over the role of the media in Trump’s rise and, now, his looming presidency.