On her eponymous Monday present, MS NOW host Chris Jansing presided over a dialogue of GOP efforts to redraw South Carolina’s congressional districts by which her Democrat company claimed that blacks are being “disenfranchised” in South Carolina and that white People refuse to vote for black candidates due to “racism.”
It was not talked about in any respect within the 11-minute section that one of many state’s two U.S. Senators — Tim Scott — is black and had even beforehand been elected in one of many state’s white-majority congressional districts. However he is a Republican.
Jansing gave a melodramatic introduction:
JANSING: Immediately a dramatic warning about voting rights from one North Carolina state senator who instructed Politico the complete South is on fireplace. The newest instance, South Carolina, the place lawmakers as we speak are launching into what is predicted to be a protracted and heated dialogue about new congressional maps. Republicans need to erase the state’s lone Democratic seat that is held by civil rights icon James Clyburn.
After bringing aboard her company — strategist Julie Rosinsky and State Rep. Kambrell Garvin (D-SC) — she turned to Garvin and posed: “Jim Clyburn accuses Republicans of making Jim Crow 2.0. Is he proper?“
The South Carolina state legislator declared, “Completely,” and went on to say that it feels prefer it’s 1966 once more.
When Roginsky received to talk, she complained that Chief Justice John Roberts has lengthy wished to “intestine the Civil Rights Act,” declared that black voters are being “disenfranchised,” and asserted that the U.S. is not a democracy: “And to have that state be so disenfranchised and people black voters be so disenfranchised is simply — it’s astonishing that we live in what is known as a democracy, however clearly will not be anymore.”
Garvin additional went excessive by claiming that his kids may have fewer rights than their great-grandparents and that blacks might go 100 years with out having a “voice.”
GARVIN: So that you’re speaking about an over 100-year interval the place black people in South Carolina didn’t get an opportunity to have a voice, didn’t get an opportunity to have a seat on the desk. And now we face a state of affairs the place it may be one other 100 years the place African People won’t be able to have a voice. And the unhappy factor about it, Chris, is that my technology, as a 35-year-old, my youngsters are going to have much less rights than their mother and father in addition to their grandparents and their nice grandparents.
As nobody acknowledged Senator Scott or different blacks who’ve been elected in majority white elements of the nation, Roginsky cried racism:
ROGINSKY: And for anyone who says, “Effectively, you realize, white voters can nonetheless vote for black representatives,” come on. Come on. There is a motive why the Civil Rights Act existed — there’s a motive why you are actually about to see a full eradication of black energy in Congress. It’s exactly due to these sorts of locations. White voters is not going to vote for black representatives. You would name it racism. You would name it no matter you need. I name it racism.
Chris Jansing was not “reality checking in actual time.”
Transcript follows:
MS NOW’s Chris Jansing Experiences
Might 18, 2026
1:34 p.m. Jap
CHRIS JANSING: Immediately a dramatic warning about voting rights from one North Carolina state senator who instructed Politico the complete South is on fireplace. The newest instance, South Carolina, the place lawmakers as we speak are launching into what is predicted to be a protracted and heated dialogue about new congressional maps. Republicans need to erase the state’s lone Democratic seat that is held by civil rights icon James Clyburn.
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JANSING: Jim Clyburn accuses Republicans of making Jim Crow 2.0. Is he proper?
STATE REP. KAMBRELL GARVIN (D-SC): Completely, Chris, and thanks for having me. We in South Carolina and the South Carolina Home of Representatives are combating regressive insurance policies. And we have been doing that for, Chris, for the final couple of days, and we’ll proceed to do this as nicely all through the day and nicely into the evening, Chris. What we see as we speak and what we have been seeing all through the South is an try and take us backwards. I’ve a quote that I usually prefer to say, and that’s that it is beginning to really feel extra like 19 — 1966 and never 2026.
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JULIE ROGINSKY, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: You even have a Supreme Courtroom the place the chief justice has been working for the reason that Reagan administration to intestine the Civil Rights Act, and he is finished it. And the truth of that implies that black voters within the South who’ve been disenfranchised for the historical past — the complete historical past of this nation, who got a chance to have equal illustration again within the Sixties, now are going again to a time, because the consultant mentioned, that I definitely have by no means lived by means of, and I feel most individuals on this nation have by no means lived by means of.
It’s a — it’s simply astonishing what’s taking place. We’re about to haven’t any black individuals represented — no black representatives, excuse me — in South Carolina, the place the black constituency is super. I imply, Jim Clyburn is about to doubtlessly lose his seat. And, as a Democrat, I’ll say South Carolina delivers the Democratic nomination each single time for each single Democratic candidate.
They did it for Barack Obama — they did it for Joe Biden. They’ll do it once more for the following Democratic President. It’s far more essential than Iowa and New Hampshire. And to have that state be so disenfranchised and people black voters be so disenfranchised is simply — it’s astonishing that we live in what is known as a democracy however clearly will not be anymore.
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GARVIN: So that you’re speaking about an over 100-year interval the place black people in South Carolina didn’t get an opportunity to have a voice, didn’t get an opportunity to have a seat on the desk. And now we face a state of affairs the place it may be one other 100 years the place African People won’t be able to have a voice. And the unhappy factor about it, Chris, is that my technology, as a 35-year-old, my youngsters are going to have much less rights than their mother and father in addition to their grandparents and their nice grandparents.
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ROGINSKY: It’s deeply regarding. And for anyone who says, “Effectively, you realize, white voters can nonetheless vote for black representatives,” come on. Come on. There is a motive why the Civil Rights Act existed — there’s a motive why you are actually about to see an entire eradication of black energy in Congress. It’s exactly due to these sorts of locations. White voters is not going to vote for black representatives. You would name it racism. You would name it no matter you need. I name it racism.
However the actuality is the truth, which is that we’re going to have many, many, many fewer representatives of coloration. We aren’t a white nation. We’re about to be a majority minority nation. And but our Congress, due to the design of the Republican get together and, most significantly, the Supreme Courtroom, which is clearly predominantly white, is making this a minority rule nation that’s about to rule the vast majority of the people who find themselves not white. That may be a huge downside. Have a look at your historical past. That is how empires collapse as a result of democracy not exists.
