Vance, Donald Trump's running mate, defended the former president's false claims that Harris has only recently begun to identify as Black.
Ohio Sen. JD Vance, Donald Trump's running mate, is defending a false claim the former president made about Vice President Kamala Harris' racial identity. Trump suggested wrongly that Harris had downplayed her Black heritage in trying to suggest she's inauthentic. Vance says, "What I took it as was an attack on Kamala Harris being a chameleon." Harris is the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants. The Harris campaign has declined to comment specifically on Trump's false claim. The vice president, speaking to a Black sorority last week, accused Trump of "the same old show: the divisiveness and the disrespect."
Ohio Sen. JD Vance, Donald Trump's running mate, defended on Wednesday a false claim the former president made about Vice President Kamala Harris' racial identity, suggesting wrongly that Harris had downplayed her Black heritage in trying to suggest she's inauthentic.
"What I took it as was an attack on Kamala Harris being a chameleon," he told reporters when asked in Michigan about the former president's suggestion that Harris, the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, had only recently identified as Black.
"I think he was observing the basic foundational reality that Kamala Harris pretends to be something different depending on what audience she's speaking to," Vance said. "She fakes who she is depending on the audience...
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