CNN's Harwood Says GOP Opposed, Dems Supported Civil Rights Movement

Alex Christy | June 1, 2020
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[See NewsBusters for more.] In the aftermath of the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police, CNN's John Harwood reported on Monday's CNN Newsroom that the White House was considering holding a listening session with black leaders. Harwood also cast doubt on the effectiveness of such a session, because not only does President Trump have a credibility problem on the issue, but the entire Republican Party does, because unlike Democrats, they opposed the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

Harwood tried to explain, "But it's more than just Donald Trump, it's also his party. Remember the seminal event, a seminal event in the development of the modern Republican Party was a civil rights movement in the 1960s, national Democrats embraced it, national Republicans did not."

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