WATCH: CNN Contributor Rambles While Bashing Biden on Cancer Progress and Poverty, Leaves Anchors Dumbfounded
Former Rep. Mia Love (R-UT) appeared on CNN on Monday to discuss President Joe Biden’s campaign speech in South Carolina and she said… a lot of things!
During CNN News Central with anchors Brianna Keilar and Boris Sanchez, with Dana Bash tagging in to analyze Biden’s speech in front of the crowd at Mother Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, Love first went after Biden for not crediting GOP presidential candidate and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley for taking the Confederate flag down “from all state grounds” in 2015:
Well, I think Biden would have fared better if he actually gave credit where credit was due with Nikki Haley. Nikki Haley was the governor at that time, and decided she was going to remove the Confederate flag from all state grounds. I mean, she, she did this. Biden didn’t do it. She did it. So I just, I think that you need to give credit where credit is due.
It’s one of the things that [former President Donald] Trump could never do. It was, he took all of the credit for anything good that happened when Congress, um, were writing the law. He took, uh, credit for, um, funding the HBCUs and making sure that the HBCUs were funded permanently.
Without prompting, Love continued on to a different subject — Biden’s Cancer “Moonshot,” his vow to reduce death rates from cancer “by at least 50 percent over the next 25 years” which began when he was still vice president:
Love: The other thing I wanted to talk about, I was really, I was so happy when Biden was campaigning and talked, talking about his son and his commitment to remove, to find a cure for cancer. And according to the CDC, compared to other races, black and African-Americans are getting and dying from all kinds of cancers. They have the highest death rate for cancer overall.
I want him to keep that promise because everybody, Democrats and Republicans would hold hands. They would be hand-in-hand in trying to eradicate this country and other countries of cancer. And there are people that are doing it that are working. And I wish, I wish he would listen and really join efforts with them to eradicate– This would be equivalent to man landing on the moon, if the United States was the country to eradicate cancer.
Keilar: Might affect more people, even.
Love: That would help Black people quite a bit.
Sanchez then pointed out that one of CNN’s own anchors, Sara Sidner, announced her own cancer fight on Monday before Love interrupted him, and referred to Bash, who wasn’t actually part of the conversation, with a completely unrelated talking point about poverty:
Sanchez: … [O]ur own CNN family Sara Sidner, a close colleague of ours announcing her battle with cancer earlier today, so–
Love: You know, Dana, there’s one more thing that really frustrates me. And I said it before. Government will give Black people exactly what they need to stay exactly where they are, to go no further. In other words, why is it that when a Black, uh, person decides to, um, get promoted at work, get a little bit more money? If they have any government assistance, they lose all of that because they are, they’re, they’ve made a little bit more money. That’s ridiculous. It it definitely doesn’t allow Black people to progress in life, to make more, um, to go beyond poverty. They’re trapped in poverty. We need to make it easier for people to, for, for upward mobility.
Sanchez: It is a fascinating argument…
“Fascinating” indeed, when your guest interviews herself!
Watch the video above via CNN.
