Greg Gutfeld Battles Harold Ford on Voting Rights: 'The Race Card Doesn't Work Any More'
Steve Malzberg
May 19th, 2026 10:30 PM
Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court decision to end racial gerrymandering, the Left and their media allies have been crying racism, and that continued last Saturday, at a rally in Montgomery, Alabama. It all led to a sometimes heated discussion on race, Monday on Fox News's The Five.
The segment began with short clips from Democrats who participated in the event, including Tennessee State Representative Justin Pearson, who said, "We are here because a white supremacist dictator known as President Donald Trump thought he could silence us."
The first to weigh in was former Tennessee Democrat congressman Harold Ford Jr., who downplayed the racial issue, claiming, "My difficulty and difference with all of this is we're doing this redistricting during mid-decades." But Ford would go on to sneak race into the issue.
FORD: The Court has said that race cannot be a predominant factor, the only factor in doing it. I do think we would be having a different conversation if the Supreme Court said that you couldn't draw districts with a big number of non-college-educated white men.... We'd probably be saying something differently about it.
Ford is implying that these white men are Trump voters. Is the we his Fox News panel and other white people? He then returned to downplaying the race issue.
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