Former CNN political commentator Angela Rye is once again pushing baseless claims about election integrity.
This time, Rye is accusing President Donald Trump and the Republican Party of rigging the 2024 presidential election and plotting to “cheat” in the upcoming 2026 midterms.
During a recent episode of her “Native Land Pod” podcast, Rye told co-host and former MSNBC host Tiffany Cross:
“I still feel like they did [steal 2024].
“I don’t have data. I got a gut feeling.
“But, I’m going to tell you about the black woman and the Holy Ghost. We be spot on.”
The remarks quickly drew attention for their casual dismissal of evidence and reliance on “gut feelings” as justification for delegitimizing a national election.
Rye went even further, questioning whether the 2026 midterms will even be worth participating in.
“I think me and [Tiffany Cross] really might feel a way about telling y’all how many days are left till the midterms because I don’t really know this thing’s going to damn happen,” Rye said.
Cross, who was dismissed from MSNBC in 2022 after a series of controversial on-air remarks, echoed Rye’s distrust in the American electoral process.
While she stopped short of fully claiming the 2024 election was stolen, she said the results may “require some investigation.”
“Even if they did, okay, it’s here now,” Cross said.
“Like what, they’re not going to say ‘okay takesies backsies we stole it.’
“Like they have already instituted this authoritarian regime.”
She added, “So why we think all of a sudden we’re going to have free and fair elections in this country for midterms, which we’ve never really had, as black folks know all too well and, as women know all too well.
“We’ve never really had that, but we think somehow in 480 days that we’re going to have a better chance at democracy.
“I just don’t think so.”
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The conspiracy-laced conversation comes as a growing number of left-wing pundits and Democrat activists push the narrative that the 2026 midterms are already lost due to supposed GOP election interference, despite offering no concrete evidence.
Former Florida Democrat gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum, currently facing federal charges of wire fraud, stepped in during the podcast to defend the importance of participating in elections.
He argued that faith in the system is critical, regardless of outcome.
Yet Rye and Cross aren’t alone in stoking election distrust from the left.
In recent weeks, liberal media personalities ranging from Joy Reid and James Carville to Charlemagne Tha God have voiced doubts about the legitimacy of the upcoming midterms.
“Whenever Democrats say to me, ‘this is the reason we have to coalesce for 2026,’ I always add to the end of their sentence, ‘Yeah, assuming we actually have free and fair elections,’” Reid said on far-left writer Wajahat Ali’s Substack.
“I think it’s insane, honestly, to just assume we’re going to have normal elections next year,” she added.
The rhetoric mirrors the very claims that Democrats and media outlets have long decried when voiced by conservatives.
When Trump supporters questioned the 2020 election, they were branded as “election deniers.”
Now, prominent progressives are publicly undermining faith in future elections, and being applauded for it.
Former CNN host Don Lemon and left-wing comedian Kathy Griffin also chimed in last week.
Without evidence, Lemon and Griffin suggested that “something was off” in the 2024 election, implying Trump tampered with the results.
The irony is hard to ignore: the same voices who spent years demanding absolute trust in election systems are now fueling distrust, all because they lost.
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