A North Carolina public school superintendent candidate has accused CNN of trying to intimidate her over her past social media rhetoric.
Candidate Michele Morrow, who recently won the GOP nomination to lead Carolina’s public school system, issued the accusation after CNN reporter Shimon Prokupecz confronted her in a parking lot outside a GOP event sometime earlier this week.
Watch the confrontation below:
Prokupecz began the confrontation by pretending to be Morrow’s friend and asking her how things went at the GOP event.
When Morrow asked him who he was with, he finally fessed up to being from CNN, which prompted her to ask if CNN’s reporters were the ones she’d earlier seen parked in her neighborhood.
Prokupecz admitted this is accurate but argued that the network is simply trying to talk to her. Morrow then politely asked him to go through her official campaign, but he ignored her and continued yapping.
What exactly did he want to know? Whether she still stood by the inflammatory rhetoric she once spouted about former President Barack Hussein Obama, whose death she’d reportedly called for.
Morrow responded here, but has turned off replies and also hidden many.
She appears to be doubling down on her claim Obama should be executed — but has not responded on her tweet suggesting that celebrities harvest the blood of children. https://t.co/jZ67bPcYLE
— Andy Kaczynski (@KFILE) March 15, 2024
Prokupecz kept badgering her about the rhetoric, despite Morrow making it clear she had no interest in answering his questions.
The CNN reporter eventually brought up “the concerns that people have with your nomination and the things that you have said.”
“People in New York have concern over my nomination in North Carolina?” Morrow then dismissively asked.
“People all across the country,” Prokupecz replied.
Morrow then launched into a lecture about why CNN and everybody needs to focus on their own state elections.
“Why are they concerned about North Carolina?” she said. “Do you know that education is a problem in this entire country? So maybe they need to focus on what’s going on in your state of New York, which, by the way, is where I grew up. Maybe they need to focus on what’s going on in California, where children are not getting the education that they need. Maybe they need to focus on what they’re doing in Michigan.”
“Because right now in North Carolina, I’m focused on helping the families of North Carolina for their children to get quality education, for them to be safe, and for us to be sure that our money is going into the classroom rather than bureaucracies. That’s what I’ve been focusing on. That’s what I’ve been fighting for, for the last five years, going to the General Assembly and dealing with those issues.”
Prokupecz said he understood this but was concerned with the so-called “hurtful things” she’s said in the past, including about so-called transgender people.
Morrow replied by saying she’s “done with the gotcha moments” and noting that her private social media rhetoric “has nothing to do with education.”
After the confrontation, Morrow published a video to the social media platform X accusing Prokupecz and other CNN reporters of essentially stalking her.
Watch:
CNN fake news reporters from NYC spent 2 days watching me and my family. 3 @CNN male reporters ambushed me last night as I walked to my car, even blocking my door!
CNN thinks they can choose who leads K-12 in NC by intimidating me and lying to you. It won’t work. #ncpol pic.twitter.com/MLhq0Toq1b
— MicheleMorrow (@MicheleMorrowNC) March 20, 2024
“Apparently, three CNN reporters from New York City have been on my street for the last 48 hours watching my every move,” she said in the video. “They’ve been stalking me and my family. This is an invasion of our privacy. And tonight, they went a step further.”
“As I left the GOP convention with my friend in the dark, these three men ambushed us and refused to allow us to reach our vehicle until we answered a litany of their questions. This is completely inappropriate, it’s unsafe, and it will not be tolerated,” she added.
She continued by describing how police officers intervened and escorted the CNN reporters off the premises, thus allowing her and her friend to reach their car and “safely get home.”
Morrow then asked why CNN’s reporters were bothering her in the first place.
“Do you wonder why reporters from New York City are down here stalking me and demanding that I answer their questions about education in North Carolina?” she said. “It’s because they’re trying to interfere in the 2024 election just like they did in the 2020 election.”
“If these people truly cared about education and about the things that the voters of North Carolina care about, they would be discussing the 800 failing schools that we have in our state,” she added.
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