Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday night responded to the widely criticized comments Donald Trump made about her earlier that day in an on-stage interview with the National Association of Black Journalists, calling it “the same old show.”
“She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage. 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?” Trump said at the NABJ convention in Chicago.
“She has always identified as a Black woman. She went to a historically Black college,” ABC News’ Rachel Scott, one of the interviewers, interjected.
“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 went — she became a Black person,” Trump continued.
“It was the same old show,” Harris said at a campaign rally in Houston, responding to Trump’s remarks. “The divisiveness and the disrespect. And let me just say: the American people deserve better. 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.”