CNN Panelist Claims ‘Red State’ White People ‘Test the Racist Water All the Time’
CNN panelist Jennifer Welch claimed Wednesday that “white people” who live in “red states” like to “test the racist water” all the time with Black people as she lambasted Vice President JD Vance’s dismissal of the leaked Young Republicans chat logs.
Vance responded after Politico published reporting on 2,900 pages of leaked exchanges among a dozen state-level Young Republican leaders that included references to Black people as “monkeys” and “the watermelon people,” praise for Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler, and discussions of rape and gas chambers.
Some of those involved in the chats have now stepped down from their positions.
The vice president downplayed fury over the leaks in a post to X as “pearl clutching” and argued a Virginia Democrat Jay Jones’s violent 2022 texts in which he talked about “two bullets in the head” for a Republican rival were “far worse.”
As the panel on NewsNight with Abby Phillip commented on the story, Welch, a leftist podcaster who went viral earlier that day for eviscerating Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ), citing her experience living in a red state, accused white people in those states of testing racist comments against Black people “all the time.”
“I’m a white woman that has lived in a red state my entire life. And I can tell you, when I’m around white people, they test the racist water. They test it on people like you all, all the time,” Welch said.
She added: “And they’ll try to say off-color things, I put my hand up, it absolutely happens. And you’re fortunate that maybe you haven’t experienced it.”
The comments were met with backlash from conservatives online who blasted Welch for “baselessly” accusing swaths of citizens.
Fox News Digital columnist David Marcus called the remarks “absolutely false”:
New York Post’s Miranda Devine slammed Welch as “a pandering liar”:
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