‘What Are You Talking About?’: Chris Cuomo Fires Back At ‘Unserious People’ Calling Him ‘Racist’ For Harris Criticism

NewsNation host Chris Cuomo on Tuesday pushed back against racism accusations following his recent criticism of Vice President Kamala Harris.

On the Oct. 22 episode of “The Chris Cuomo Project,” Cuomo claimed Harris is neither a “godsend” nor “black female Jesus” and accused her supporters of trying to stifle criticism to improve the vice president’s chances against former President Donald Trump in November.

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In Tuesday’s episode, Cuomo denied being “racist” and doubled down on his critiques of Harris and her supporters.

“I am being accused of being racist by some unserious people because I said Kamala Harris went from being someone ‘you people don’t like and never talked about’ to being ‘black female Jesus,’” Cuomo said Tuesday. “All right, where am I coming from on that? … One, ‘you people’ isn’t black people — I would never do that. I am an ally of the black cause in America … the idea that I was saying ‘you people’ about blacks is not true.”

“And by the way, blacks aren’t the people who motivated Kamala Harris’s candidacy — party officials are, who believe that they couldn’t pass over a black female and hew to their diversity-by-identity mandate,” he continued. “So my point was, when Biden said he was going to run again, which no one really thought he should, why didn’t they say, ‘No, you got Harris’? Because they didn’t have confidence in Harris. And when it was ‘Biden’s on the down, Biden’s on the down,’ how come people weren’t talking about Harris? Because Harris wasn’t popular with them, that’s why.”