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Brendan Carr, who accused NBC of evading FCC rules with the VP’s pre-election cameo, is Donald Trump’s pick to lead the commission.

As Josef Adalian writes for Vulture, the FCC commissioner (and Project 2024 co-author) who made a stink over Kamala Harris’s SNL cameo “was just trying to help gin up outrage at NBC and the Harris campaign [to] demonstrate his effectiveness as a lapdog for Donald Trump.”

NBC gave Hung Cao, Kaine’s opponent in the Virginia U.S. Senate race, four free primetime ads Monday night on every NBC station with a viewing market in Virginia.