Andrea Mitchell Falsely Claims GOP ‘Booed’ Powell at 2000 Convention

Kyle Drennen | October 18, 2021
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On her 12:00 p.m. ET hour MSNBC show, host Andrea Mitchell recalled what supposedly upset the GOP crowd and caused them to jeer Colin Powell: “I remember being on the floor of the convention, the GOP convention in Philadelphia...in 2000...he was booed from the floor because he spoke about Affirmative Action.” She declared: “And that was the beginning of a public break, you know, internally for him with the Republican Party.”

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