Watch: Vivek Ramaswamy Clashes With CNN Host Over His Comments About Race: ‘You Drew A Fringe Comment’

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy hit back at CNN’s Dana Bash Sunday morning as she lectured him about his comments on race.

Bash accused Ramaswamy of taking his remarks to “another level” by comparing Democratic Massachusetts Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s comments to “grand wizards of the modern KKK.” The candidate made the remark in response to Pressley reportedly saying “we don’t need any more brown faces that don’t want to be a brown voice.”

“You know, I’m sure, the KKK was responsible for over a centuries worth of horrific lynchings, rapes, murders of black people. How in any way are the views you’re talking about comparable to the views and atrocities committed by the KKK?” Bash said.

“What I said is the grand wizards of the KKK would be proud of what they would hear her say because there is nothing more racist than saying that your skin color predicts something about the contents of your viewpoints or your ideas,” Ramaswamy responded.

“You didn’t just say they would be proud, you said ‘these are the words of the modern grand wizards of the modern KKK,’” she added.

“It is the same spirit. You’re right about that, Dana. I think it is the same spirit to say that I look at you, and based on just your skin color, that I know something about the content of your character,” Ramaswamy said. “That I know something about the content of the viewpoints you’re allowed to express. For Ayanna Pressley to tell me because of my skin color, I can’t express my views. That is wrong, it is divisve, it is driving hate in this country.

“That is a debate—” Bash interjected.

“This is dividing our country to a breaking point and I think we need to move beyond it,” Ramaswamy continued.

“That is a debate that is based on non-violent discussion that you just said she’s using rhetoric. There is — that’s one thing and another thing is to say that she represents and she is a modern version of a KKK, which as you know is dedicated to the subjugation and violence against black people. How on earth is she a modern day grand wizard of that kind of organization?”

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