CNN’s Bakari Sellers Taken Aback When Pro-Trump Analyst Dismisses Kamala Harris Event As ‘Sorority Thing’

CNN analyst Bakari Sellers was taken aback when pro-Trump analyst Scott Jennings dismissed an address to an influential Black organization by Vice President Kamala Harris as a “sorority thing.”

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Congress on Wednesday, an event which both Harris and Trump running mate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) missed.

Vance didn’t have anything else on his public schedule , but VP Harris was addressing the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. National Convention. The organization is “the largest single organization historically founded for and by Black Women in the United States.”

On Wednesday’s edition of CNN’s The Situation Room , anchor Wolf Blitzer asked Jennings about potential VP picks for Harris, and Jennings attacked Harris for skipping the speech and suggested that Harris needs to prove her support for Jewish people.

Things got contentious as Sellers pushed back, and Jennings suggested that Harris spurned the speech in favor of “a sorority thing.”

Sellers was taken aback by the reference, but as he began to push back on Jennings, Blitzer cut away to carry part of former President Donald Trump’s speech:

BLITZER: Scott Jennings, do you see any of these potential running mates as being the strongest pick for the Democrats?

SCOTT JENNINGS: Well, I think Shapiro would be the right choice, especially today, and I hope whoever she picks shows more leadership as a vice presidential candidate than she showed as the actual vice president today, leaving Washington, abdicating her responsibility to preside over the Senate, while we have terrorist sympathizers running wild in Washington, burning the American flag, hoisting the flag of terrorist organizations that are currently holding Americans hostage.

I’ll tell you, she could show me something and show the American people some leadership here by picking Shapiro. I already know there are Democrats that don’t want her to pick Shapiro because he’s Jewish, let’s be honest about it, but he would put Pennsylvania back in play, he would put Pennsylvania back in play, and it would be a signal, it would be a signal to the progressive left in this country, that our political parties are not going to put up with this garbage that we saw on the streets of Washington D.C. today.

BLITZER: David Chalian —

SELLERS: That’s not true though!

BLITZER: Let me let Bakari — go ahead, Bakari.

SELLERS: I just have to — like I have to call it where it is. That’s simply not true. And if anybody looks at Kamala Harris’s record, particularly when she was a United States senator and vice president. And, by the way, this is the first time in American history we’ve had a full-throated, truly Zionist president and Joe Biden when she was —

JENNINGS: Where was she today, Bakari? Where was she? Where was she today?

SELLERS: So. I just — and she’s going to meet with Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. And that’s not a question. And her loyalty to Israel is not a question.

And so the red meat just has to completely stop. What you’re saying is not accurate. There is no space.

JENNINGS: She was not there. It is accurate.

SELLERS: But what I would prefer, what I would prefer, is if Israel did not become this partisan issue. Israel is an American value. And I wish that we got back to the place where Israel was a non-partisan issue. That’s the same thing I’m telling Kamala Harris, and Kamala Harris knows that as well.

And, by the way, Scott, every single day she sleeps beside a man who is actually Jewish. And so do not question her loyalty to the state of Israel. That is beyond the pale, and what you’re saying is not accurate. And I just have to clarify that.

JENNINGS: She was not there today, Bakari. She was at a sorority thing. She was not doing her job today while this happened. And (INAUDIBLE).

SELLERS: It’s not a sorority thing. It’s not a sorority thing. Those are Black women and this was on the schedule. All right, I would also say, Scott —

BLITZER: Hold on for a moment. The former president is speaking right now. I want to listen in, hear what he has to say.

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