Harris goes after Trump ‘divisiveness’ over attack on her racial identity
By
Naomi Lim
July 31, 2024 9:19 pm
Vice President Kamala Harris did not let former President Donald Trump‘s comments about her biracial background go unaddressed Wednesday night.
During a keynote speech at a Houston event commemorating a historically black sorority, Harris underscored how Trump’s remarks earlier in the day that she “turned black” were “the same old show.”
“We all here remember what those four years were like, and today, we were giving yet another reminder,” Harris told the crowd. “This afternoon, Donald Trump spoke at the annual meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists, and it was the same old show, the divisiveness and the disrespect, and let me just say: The American people deserve better.”
“The American people deserve a leader who tells the truth, a leader who does not respond with hostility and anger when confronted with the facts,” she said. “We deserve a leader who understands that our differences do not divide us. They are an essential source of our strength.”
During his lengthy Q&A session at the conference in Chicago with three black journalists, including Fox News‘s Harris Faulkner, Trump asserted falsely that Harris had presented herself as an Indian woman and only later in her career identified as black. Harris’s father was Jamaican and her mother was Indian American.
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