Former President Donald Trump’s comment about Vice President Kamala Harris’ heritage is not going over well — even with some who are not opposed to him.
On Wednesday night, conservative CNN contributor Scott Jennings argued Trump “deserves some points” for going to the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) conference in Chicago when he suggested Harris has not always identified as Black.
“That being said, he did crap the bed today,” Jennings admitted. “The only question is whether he’s gonna roll around in it or get up and change the sheets.”
He added, “My advice would be, get up, change the sheets, and do what your campaign is doing! The campaign knows how to prosecute the case, OK? They’re on the air with it to the tune of millions of dollars on her policy record. That’s what they should be doing. This is not going to end the way he wants it to end. There’s a better way to do this. And they know what to do, but it’s on him to do it.”
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On Wednesday, Trump visited the NABJ and sat down for an interview.
ABC News’ Rachel Scott noted Republicans have attacked Harris as a “DEI hire” and asked if he finds that to be “acceptable language,” and if he would tell his supporters and members of his party to stop using that line of attack.
“Well, I can say, no, I think maybe it’s a little different. I’ve known her a long time indirectly, not directly very much, and she was always of Indian heritage, and she was only Indian heritage,” Trump responded.
He went on:
“I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago, when she happened to turn Black, and now, she wants to be known as Black. So, I don’t know — is she Indian or is she Black?”
Scott noted Harris has “always identified as a Black person” and attended a historically Black college. The vice president was also a member of the Congressional Black Caucus while she was in the Senate.
Trump went on, “I respect either one. But she obviously doesn’t. Because she was Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden she made a turn and she became a Black person.”
In a post on Truth Social, he wrote, “Crazy Kamala is saying she’s Indian, not Black. This is a big deal. Stone cold phony. She uses everybody, including her racial identity!”
