The Harris campaign released a statement Wednesday after Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump falsely questioned Harris' race at an event put on by Black journalists.
During a live interview panel at the annual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists Wednesday, Trump said he didn't know Vice President Kamala Harris was Black, and questioned her race.
The Harris Campaign's "Statement on Donald Trump Showing Exactly Who He Is at NABJ" read in part:
The hostility Donald Trump showed on stage today is the same hostility he has shown throughout his life, throughout his term in office, and throughout his campaign for president as he seeks to regain power and inflict his harmful Project 2025 agenda on the American people."
"Donald Trump has already proven he cannot unite America, so he attempts to divide us," it read.
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She was only promoting Indian heritage. I didnt 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," Trump said at the NABJ panel, after being asked if he agreed with other Republicans' comments that Harris is a "DEI hire."
Is she Indian or is she Black? Trump continued, I respect either one but she obviously doesnt because she was Indian all the way and then all of a sudden she made a turn and she became a Black person.
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Harris' campaign used the statement to again call for Trump to attend a Sept. 10 debate against Harris. In a Monday interview with Fox News, when pressed about whether he would debate his opponent, Trump said, The answer is yes, but I can also make a case for not doing it.


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