We learned a lot watching the 2020 political season unfold. African-Ame
We learned a lot watching the 2020 political season unfold. African-Americans and people of color watched closely as both political parties fought for our vote. If you wanted to get a fair and balanced understanding of the issues to vote on, you mostly watched CNN.
If you watched CNN enough, you probably watched Political Correspondent Abby Phillip discuss the needs of Blacks and democrats on a nightly basis.
What we didn’t know is that Phillip would represent her positions from such a level of professionalism and detail. Night after night Phillip would literally describe the mindset of the Black voter.
Phillip, 31, who grew up in Bowie, Maryland, has a degree in government but had initially intended on becoming a heart surgeon until her realization that she loved talking to people led her into journalism.
In an interview with a US media outlet, she revealed: “My first journalism experience was going to Mississippi for a service trip where I had to write a blog throughout the entire thing, and I just really loved that experience. And I came back, and I knew that was what I had to do.”
She began her career as a White House reporter and blogger for Politico covering campaign finance issues and lobbying. She also appeared occasionally on Washington Week with Robert Costa on PBS.
On a recent CNN political panel she made the following observation: “Not only would Black women put Joe Biden in the White House, but they would also put a Black woman in the White House as well and that is the sort of historical poetry that I think we will live with for a long time.”
Phillip, who has been covering the Trump White House has featured prominently in much of the coverage of the US election campaign. She co-moderated the seventh Democratic debate of the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries at Drake University in January alongside CNN colleague Wolf Blitzer and Des Moines Register political correspondent Brianne Pfannenstiel.
We applaud Phillip’s position and opinion during this year’s election and we congratulate her for a job well done.
ricans and people of color watched closely as both political parties fought for our vote. If you wanted to get a fair and balanced understanding of the issues to vote on, you mostly watched CNN.
If you watched CNN enough, you probably watched Political Correspondent Abby Phillip discuss the needs of Blacks and democrats on a nightly basis.
What we didn’t know is that Phillip would represent her positions from such a level of professionalism and detail. Night after night Phillip would literally describe the mindset of the Black voter.
Phillip, 31, who grew up in Bowie, Maryland, has a degree in government but had initially intended on becoming a heart surgeon until her realization that she loved talking to people led her into journalism.
In an interview with a US media outlet, she revealed: “My first journalism experience was going to Mississippi for a service trip where I had to write a blog throughout the entire thing, and I just really loved that experience. And I came back, and I knew that was what I had to do.”
She began her career as a White House reporter and blogger for Politico covering campaign finance issues and lobbying. She also appeared occasionally on Washington Week with Robert Costa on PBS.
On a recent CNN political panel she made the following observation: “Not only would Black women put Joe Biden in the White House, but they would also put a Black woman in the White House as well and that is the sort of historical poetry that I think we will live with for a long time.”
Phillip, who has been covering the Trump White House has featured prominently in much of the coverage of the US election campaign. She co-moderated the seventh Democratic debate of the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries at Drake University in January alongside CNN colleague Wolf Blitzer and Des Moines Register political correspondent Brianne Pfannenstiel.
We applaud Phillip’s position and opinion during this year’s election and we congratulate her for a job well done.
