On Tuesday’s At This Hour, CNN senior political correspondent Abby Phillip told host Kate Bolduan that the reason some Republicans “are willing to villainize” the idea of a black woman Supreme Court justice is because that is what fires up the party’s base.

Phillip proclaimed: “Race is an incredibly powerful motivator for the Republican Party base right now. It is very effective to use race to rile up their voters who believe that they are themselves, the non-white part of the Republican base [sic], being discriminated against.”

Of course, it was Biden who made the race-based promise in order to win votes, but according to Phillip, “that’s why you see so many Republicans willing to villainize just the concept of putting a black woman on the Supreme Court as if all of the men, you know, white men and others who came before them were not the beneficiaries of preferences.”