‘Doesn’t Take That Much Courage!’ CNN’s Abby Phillip Stunned Mace Refuses To Denounce Trump Race Attacks on Kamala Harris

CNN anchor Abby Phillip was stunned when Rep. Nance Mace (R-SC) refused to denounce former President Donald Trump’s racial attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris.

Things got wild on Thursday night’s edition of CNN NewsNight, when Mace told the panel “I will say Kamala’s name any way that I want to,” igniting a fracas.

But it wasn’t over there, as Phillip pressed Mace to denounce Trump’s consistent attacks on Harris questioning her Black identity. Mace ignited another shouting match that closed out the show as panelists accused her of being in “a cult”:

PHILLIP: Trump injecting Vice President Harris’ race and then suggesting that she’s not actually Black — why is he doing that? Should he stop?

BOYKIN: Yes or no.

MACE: Well, I mean, I didn’t hear him say it. I didn’t hear what he said about her race. I am not going to weigh in on her race as a woman.

PHILLIP: He did say it. He definitely said it.

MACE: Okay, well, as a woman, I want to weigh in.

DYSON: She turned Black, he said. He said she was Indian. She was Indian, all he knew. Now she’s turned Black.

MACE: She’s a mixed race. She’s a mixed race.

BOYKIN: He said that to the National Association of Black Journalists. He went to the same event where he said he’d done more for Black people than any president in history.

PHILLIP: I guess, here’s the thing.

MACE: When he was president, wages for women were better than they’d been in a long time. Wages for Blacks were better than they’d been in a long time. He did. He did a lot of good.

PHILLIP: Hang on a second.

MACE: He did a lot of good.

PHILLIP: Congresswoman, let me just finish this to both of you.

MACE: People from all walks of the country.

PHILLIP: It just doesn’t take that much courage, honestly, to just say that was out of bounds.

MACE: I don’t know what he said. I didn’t see what he said.

BOYKIN: Come on.

PHILLIP: He said that she turned Black. He questioned whether she was really Black. I don’t think that’s that hard to say. That’s out of bounds. Can you say that?

MACE: I mean, I didn’t say it, and I would not say it. I just said it.

BOYKIN: Just say yes. Just say yes.

PHILLIP: We are out of time. We are out of time.

UNKNOWN: It’s a cult.

MACE: I am not in a — are you kidding me?

BOYKIN: It’s a cult. Yes, you are. You’re a cult member.

PHILLIP: We are out of time at the table. Thank you for watching at home.

Watch above via CNN NewsNight.