CNN Interviews Black Owner of Pro-Trump Store Who Sells Confederate Flag Merch and Says Kamala Harris ‘Is Not a Black-Black Person’

CNN correspondent Elle Reeve interviewed Jo Anne Price , a Black woman who owns a pro-Trump store in Virginia, along with several customers about their support for former President Donald Trump .

Reeve’s interview with Price aired on CNN during AC360 , and host Anderson Cooper introduced the segment by talking about recent polls showing momentum for Vice President Kamala Harris since she entered the presidential race following President Joe Biden stepping aside.

Harris’s support among Black voters was even higher than Biden’s, said Cooper, 77% to 64%, with Trump’s support with Black voters “unchanged at around 13%.”

One of those Black Trump supporters was Price, whom Reeve interviewed at her shop in Virginia.

The merchandise Price showed Reeve included swimsuits and cowboy hats adorned with the Confederate flag, and a fake credit card labeled as a “White Privilege Card.”

“Every woman ought to have one of these,” said Price about a rebel flag one-piece swimsuit. “It’s one of those things that when people see one, then they want one.” She said the confederate hat was the “same thing…because people don’t think you have the nerve to do it,” and then laughed.

Regarding the “White Privilege Card,” a Black male customer in the store said he had one and showed it to a state trooper and the cop laughed at it and didn’t give him a ticket.

Price told Reeve that there was “no way” she would have considered voting for Biden or even Harris, “absolutely not,” and she felt that the attacks on Trump “have done nothing more than strengthen Black people’s connection to him, because now he’s someone who is the target of a struggle.” The store owner added that she had done prison ministries for five years, and “if you’re a convicted felon and then somebody else is a convicted felon, there’s a camaraderie there.”

The CNN reporter then asked Price about Trump’s attacks on Harris’s racial heritage, when the former president falsely claimed that she only recently claimed to be Black. Harris has an Indian mother and a Jamaican father and has always identified as biracial, attended a historically Black university, Howard University, and pledged a historically Black sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.

“How do you make sense of how Trump talks about” Harris and her racial background in that “he sort of suggested he doesn’t understand her biracial background,” by saying that “first she was Indian and then she was Black?” asked Reeve.

“I don’t understand it either,” said Price. “She’s Indian and she’s Jamaican.”

“Yeah –” said Reeve.

“ Is she Black?” asked Price.

“I mean, do you not think she’s Black?” asked Reeve.

“Is she? Was she born here?” asked Price.

“Yes,” said Reeve. Harris was born in California.

“Yes, were her parents citizens? No,” said Price.

“Okay, but we have birthright citizenship in America –” said Reeve.

“Mm-hmm. We call that anchor –” said Price.

“People can immigrate here and not be citizens, but have green cards and work permits,” said Reeve.

“Yeah, that’s true. However, she can claim to be Black because of a Jamaican father, and that’s her right,” said Price, saying that America is a “melting pot” and she had a “combination” in her family too.

Reeve asked Price how she could “reconcile that,” with her own family history of blended families and “Trump seeming to not understand how Kamala Harris could have a blended family herself?”

“Herself, she could have a blended family. What I’m saying is, is his comments about that, I think he’s making a point and, you know, I’m not, I’m not so disturbed by that,” said Price.

“But what is the point he’s making?” Reeve pressed.

“The point he’s making simply is, is that she is not a Black-Black person,” replied Price.

Later in the interview, Price told Reeve that Trump “has been mocked, scrutinized, slandered, dragged into court,” but “this man is still standing, and standing strong, because he knows that he was chosen.”

“He’s our David,” she added.

Watch the clip above via CNN .