Jimmy Kimmel‘s pulled TV interview with James Talarico, the Texan Democrat running for the U.S. Senate, has crossed 5 million views in the 24 hours since it was posted to YouTube.
This, of course, is not Kimmel’s first conflict with the FCC. Chairman Brendan Carr’s threatened ABC after the host’s comments about the assassination of Charlie Kirk in 2025, and the network later suspended him for nearly a week.
The pulled TV interview between Kimmel and Talarico started with the late night host asking the Texas senate candidate why Trump and the FCC are so scared of him. Talarico responded: “Well, they’re worried that we’re going to win this race in Texas. But we are the underdogs until the last vote is counted. We’re not just going up against the most corrupt politician in Texas. We’re going up against this entire corrupt system.”
Watch the full 20-minute interview in the video below.
