Sebriam Vannoy, a Black Trump supporter from Virginia, has weighed in on the upcoming elections in a recent interview with CNN.
Vannoy, who is all in for President Donald Trump and his reelection bid expressed his belief that a female president would not win in 2024, citing the biblical story of Eve’s betrayal in the Garden of Eden as the basis for his view.
On the latest edition of CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, Elle Reeves, a correspondent who specializes in investigative political reports for the network took viewers to a Trump merchandise store for reactions to the former President’s attempts at Black outreach.
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According to Vannoy, God would never support a woman, regardless of race, to take charge of the White House.
“Kamala Harris, may I say this, and you ladies won’t get offended, but because of what happened in the Garden of Eden, there will never be an elected woman—whether she’s Black or White—that will occupy the White House, that God would ever stand behind,” he told CNN.
Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential candidate, is seeking to become the first female president of the United States. Despite previous failed attempts by other women, the most notable being Hillary Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential race, there is renewed hope that Harris could achieve this historic milestone in 2024.
Should she win, Harris would not only be the first female president but also the first with Black heritage. However, she has faced intense criticism from Republicans, who accuse her of “transitioning” her racial identity from Indian to Black for political gain. Trump has accused Harris of switching her race when convenient, calling it disgraceful.
Another interviewee, Jo Anne Price, a 72-year old Black woman who runs a store selling pro-Trump merchandise in Christiansburg, Virginia said she didn’t have a problem with Trump questioning whether Harris was really Black.
“The point he’s making simply is that she is not a Black-Black person,” Price argued, because Harris’ dad was Jamaican and her mom was Indian, making her background different from people whose parents were born here.
Price said there were mixed-race families in her own family, but “I’m not so disturbed by” Trump’s comments. Finally, she said, “He has every right for free speech to make a point, if he wants to make that point.”
