Borelli also pointed out that the representative of Tennessee’s Democratic stronghold seat of Memphis was a white Democratic man.Champion then started her response to Borelli and claimed a “dilution” of black voters: “There’s a specific – it’s a dilution. They’re trying to get rid of black voters and black representation. And you know that. And you can point out whatever you want to point out. You can give me any example.”Borelli’s own response to Champion was a case of a New York gerrymander, where, Borelli said, “the Democratic Party wanted to redistrict the seat (…) where they would remove a Hispanic Republican and replace it with a white man.” None of the panelists or Cornish wanted to discuss this.Cornish took a dig at Borelli as she said, “This is not a show where we care about what the lobbyists are saying. Part of this is public perception.”Cornish repeated a line about a possible black American boycott of SEC schools and asked, “Can the Republican Party go into the midterms with a growing perception within this community that there’s a problem?” Borelli responded with the same answer about the gerrymandering in blue states.For the last word of the segment, Seawright exemplified some Democrat disarray as he called on progressives “who challenge African-American Democrats” to step up.As Borelli pointed out, there was little moral high ground for democrats who gerrymander their states, like an old Illinois’s current map and California’s newly enacted “fair map,” with little pushback and breaking news segments in the media.The transcript is below. Click “expand”:
CNN This Morning
May 13, 2026
Read Full Article: https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-spinnato/2026/05/14/cnn-claims-dilution-black-voters-while-ignoring-dem
