Anderson Cooper cuts off Rick Santorum after he said businesses didn't board up their storefronts 'to keep Donald Trump supporters from looting'

• Anderson Cooper dug into the CNN contributor Rick Santorum after the former Pennsylvania senator suggested that businesses weren't boarding up their storefronts "to keep Donald Trump supporters from looting."
• "Where is the real threat here?" Santorum said during the panel Wednesday. "I don't see any Republicans, I don't see any people storming around, burning buildings, and crashing through storefronts."
• Cooper asked Santorum whether he was concerned by the caravans of Trump supporters, some of whom were armed, blocking streets and highways in California, New Jersey, and New York.
• "As a white Republican, you're not scared about, like, armed white Trump supporters wandering around cities they don't live in," Cooper said. Watch the video below.

The CNN anchor Anderson Cooper shut down the CNN contributor Rick Santorum after he suggested that Democrats posed a greater threat of violence than supporters of President Donald Trump.

"They boarded up businesses in New York City, not to keep Donald Trump supporters from looting, OK?" Santorum, a Republican former Pennsylvania senator, said during a CNN panel Wednesday.

The CNN commentator Van Jones replied saying the Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, "is not stoking" that behavior and said he thought Trump was egging on his supporters.

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"Where is the real threat here?" Santorum responded. "I don't see any Republicans, I don't see any people storming around, burning buildings, and crashing through storefronts."

Some buildings in various US cities were boarded up ahead of Election Day as Americans braced for the results of the vote.

As the wait for results of the presidential election stretched into Wednesday and then Thursday, neither Trump nor Biden had reached the 270 electoral votes needed for victory, as several states continued to count votes.

Cooper chimed in on Santorum's comment regarding the buildings, saying he assumed Santorum was comparing the threat of election-related violence to the unrest that broke out alongside some Black Lives Matter protests over the summer.

The CNN anchor asked Santorum whether he was concerned by the caravans of Trump supporters blocking streets and highways in California, New Jersey, and New York.

"As a white Republican, you're not scared about, like, armed white Trump supporters wandering around cities they don't live in," Cooper said, to which Santorum responded: "I'm scared of any armed people who are doing things that are dangerous."

Cooper then said the president "likes it when they show up in the Michigan statehouse," alluding to the armed anti-lockdown demonstrators in Michigan who stormed the Capitol to protest Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's coronavirus restrictions.

Watch the video below: