CNN reporter confronts GOP nominee who called for Obama to be executed

The woman you're about to hear from might never have found herself in the national spotlight. Michelle Mauro is her name. She wasn't expected to win her Republican primary race to be North Carolina's top public school official. Then last week, in an upset, she did win. And when she did, her extreme and controversial comments began getting attention. Last Friday, she didn't filed, reported that she has, for example, tweeted under her now dormant personal account about wanting to see former Presid

ent Obama put in front of a firing squad on pay per view, saying, quote, We could make some money back from televising his death. That's just one of a string of social media postings between 2019 and 2021, in which McMorrow made suggestions about executing Obama and other prominent Democrats for treason, including Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, Hillary Clinton, Senator Chuck Schumer, and then President elect Biden. In the Bide

n tweet, here's how she answered the question Will you follow Joe Biden's advice and wear a mask for 100 days? Never, she replies. We need to follow the Constitution's advice and kill all traitors. McMorrow has also promoted QAnon, tweeting the Q nine slogan Where we Go one, We go all multiple times. She also tweeted that the actor Jim Carrey was, quote, likely searching for Adreno Chrome, which is a reference to a Q and on conspiracy theory, which claims that celebrity celebrities harvest the h

arvest the blood and drink the blood of children to prolong their own lives. That's what they believe. In addition to all that, Ms.. Morrow, who again, is the candidate to be North Carolina's top public school official, has called public schools, socialism centers and indoctrination centers. Now, as part of that Kaye File a report, CNN reached out tomorrow and her campaign multiple times to get her side of the story, but received no response. After publication of the case file story, Morrow twee

ted the following According to at K File and at CNN and at CNN Politics. Obama's drone attacks on hundreds of innocent Muslims in Yemen are not treasonous insanity. The media demonstrates the need to teach K-12 students real history and critical thinking skills, which, of course, doesn't directly address the multiple social media postings we just listed. So with that in mind, scene Instrument Pro Keypads went to North Carolina and try and speak with her in person. It took him several days. They

finally caught up to her outside a Wake County Republican Party event in Raleigh. Sherman joins us now. So what did she have to say? Yeah, Anderson, So she went to this GOP convention. It's a local GOP convention in Wake County. There were other elected officials there, including the lieutenant governor, Mark Robinson, who himself has had some controversy and has had some controversial statements. And we finally got to speak to her as she was leaving. Take a look at that exchange. Hi, Miss Morro

w. How are you? I'm all right. How did it go in there? Hey, it went great. Yeah. Great. Feeling good? Who are you guys with? I'm Sherman PROKUPECZ. I'm with CNN. Oh, have you been parked in my neighborhood, by any chance? We've been trying to talk to you. Yes. Okay, well, you can go through my. I understand, but I have you now, so why don't we talk now? No, no, no. Why not? Well, I want to ask you, do you still stay? I'm not talking to you, ma'am. Do you still stand by your comments about former

President Barack Obama and that he should be executed, calling for the death of other presidents? Do you stand by that? Do you stand by those comments? Have a good. Night. Do you stand by what you've said about the public education system and that it needs to be destroyed? No. Do you stand by that? No. No. Do you understand the concern that people have with this nomination that you now. How do you vote in North Carolina then keep your eyes on your own paper? Well, let me ask you, I've read I've

read papers, though, here to keep your eye on the concerns that people have with your nomination and the things that you have said. People in New York have concern. People call people on the phone. Call. Really? Yes. Are they concerned about North Carolina or 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, whe

re 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 dea

ling with those issues. So that is why I am running. I understand that. But you have said such hurtful things, too, in terms of the education. To tell. You about transgender. Kids. So done with the gotcha moment. This is not a gotcha. These are your own words, ma'am. These are your own words. You have said that the former president. Oh, my. Words, because you tweeted, are those not your tweets? Do you deny saying that you have an opportunity now? Do you deny saying that? I do. Are you denying th

at you said that in those tweets? I am telling you. Have you. That I'm. Going to do you talk about the indoctrination of children by teachers? I am telling. You. Have you talked about that? Have you said that about. Have you seen any of me going to the school board for the last five years? Because you will have my answer. So clearly, she didn't answer your questions. She didn't want to talk about the tweets about executing President Obama or Biden. Has Ms.. Monroe ever explained her tweets calli

ng for the execution of these executions? Well, no, not not exactly. She's deflected a lot. She's tried to suggest it, perhaps like she did to me that maybe wasn't even written by her. How do I know? She said to me at one point that it was something that that she posted. So she's deflected. She's of course, she. Can clear that up. She could clear it up very simply just by answering the question. Yeah. I mean, it's not that difficult to do, but you can see there that when I wanted to talk about s

ome of those things that she has said, and they're very hurtful. I mean, there are people in this state who are very concerned about what she has said and just her lack of empathy and understanding in the different issues that affect students and children. And yet, when you look back at everything she has said, it is very troubling. And she could clear so much of this up. But the bottom line is she's now in a position to get elected to a position where she will be running a school system with a

million and a half students and a massive budget. And then she would just have this you know, she would have the podium, she would have a place to speak, to say what it is that she is feeling more widely. And that is certainly very concerning to people here Anderson. Both of us, thanks very much. Joining us now is Republican strategist and North Carolinian Doug Heye, who recently tweeted, quote, North Carolina Republicans dump this lunatic. Doug, what does it say about the Republican Party in No

rth Carolina? To an extent, the Republican Party nationwide, that this person is the GOP nominee for such an important job? And do you think voters realized these tweets that she had sent out this supportive Q&A on? No, absolutely not. Look, this was a down ballot race. It wasn't one of the top tier races, obviously. You know, you had Trump running for president, Mark Robinson running for governor. Which of the two marquee races this is down ballot, it gets fewer votes. It was a low turnout year

. About 25% of eligible voters voted in this primary. So I don't think they knew exactly everything that she said. A lot of this has come out since the election, but I see so much of this in every direction, Anderson. This is bad. These are not just appalling statements. These are the worst of the worst statements calling to assassinate political opponents and so forth. As a former campaign hack myself, having spent a lot of time in Wake County in Raleigh, that's not the state party headquarters

on Hillsborough Street. But what I see is bad staffing, allowing your candidate to walk that far with Sherman being able to get every question in that he could. You want to have a car there so you can get your candidate out immediately because, you know, and this is problem number three. You don't have good answers to these questions unless you can just simply say that either you didn't do them, which clearly she did, or what I said was wrong and apologize for it. Unfortunately, in American pol

itics these days, we don't really reward people for standing up and saying that they made a mistake. We don't reward the apologies. That's one of the lessons that Donald Trump sort of taught us in 2016. I was in Wake County in Raleigh the day after the Access Hollywood tape came out. And I would have told you that day, Anderson, that there's no way Donald Trump could win. The reality is he did. Now, North Carolina has a lot of close races. This may be one of them. We go back and forth with our p

olitics is as far as senators and governors. So she could still win. But we've learned the lesson. And I think this is what she's learning. It's a bad lesson, but maybe if you don't apologize, you can get away with it. I mean, she also, you know, the whole trafficking in Q and on, you know, talking about Adrina Chrome and all that is based on on anti-Jewish, you know, horrible anti-Jewish tropes which were used by the Nazis about Jews drinking the blood of children. I mean, the idea that this pe

rson could be head of the school system in North Carolina is it's quite extraordinary. It's extraordinary. And look, it would be extraordinary if she were also the insurance commissioner candidate or a state senator or basically anybody running for governor. Unfortunately, though, Anderson, in our politics right now, we are so stratified and we've seen the parties go so tribal. It's not even so much red versus blue anymore. It's almost shirts versus skins that everything that we do in our politi

cs comes down to that sort of existence, local level and so on. I mean, of course, with calling for the executions of a former president and a president elect is not disqualifying for, you know, an elected official in America or running the school system. We're talking about teaching the real history. I mean, is there anything that's disqualifying? Well, I mean, this should be it. And obviously, again, I don't think that the voters, Republican primary voters in that case knew. But this should be

a good example for we have a new state are we have a new RNC chair, Michael Whatley. He's also the state party chair in of North Carolina. I've known him for 20 years, Michael. This is a time to stand up and show leadership. This has to be a line that we don't cross because we've seen political violence against Republican members of Congress, against Democratic congressmen, our congresswomen, obviously with Gabby Giffords. We know that this could happen again. This is a time for leadership to s

tand up and say no. Doug, I appreciate your time tonight. Thank you. Thank you.