Analysis: Trump questions the American-ness of another non-White candidate
briefing at the White House on Thursday, a reporter asked Trump what he thought about it. Rather than disavow it or even distance himself from it, Trump breathed life into the notion. Here’s what he said: So I just heard that.
I heard it today that she doesn’t meet the requirements. And by the way, the lawyer who wrote that piece is a very highly qualified, very talented lawyer. I have no idea if that’s right. I would have assumed the Democrats would have checked that out before she gets chosen to run for vice president. But that’s a very serious — you’re saying that, they’re saying that she doesn’t qualify because she wasn’t born in this country. The reporter explained that Harris was born in the United States; her parents weren’t. Trump responded: “I don’t know about it. I just heard about it. I’ll certainly take a look.”Trump didn’t outright say Harris couldn’t serve, but he left the question out there. And as we saw with the rumors he propagated about Barack Obama’s eligibility, raising questions is enough to fuel suspicions. Trump was the most prominent conspiracy theorist on Obama, seeking publicity to fuel the false rumors that Obama wasn’t born in the United States. It wasn’t until the very end of the 2016 election when he somewhat reluctantly said at a campaign event: “President Obama was born in the United States. Period.” The Obama birther movement was Trump’s biggest foray into the political world, as he toyed with running for president. When he was running for president, he questioned whether his Republican opponent, Sen. Ted Cruz , could serve because he was born in Canada. Now that Trump is president, it’s not clear whether questioning Harris’s qualifications is a strategy or something that was thrown at him that he latched on to.Trump’s instincts to attack his opponents in racial and gendered ways aren’t serving him in the polls right now. He is trailing Biden substantially in national polls and key swing states, and that’s primarily because Americans disapprove of his handling of the coronavirus pandemic. But Trump’s handling of the protests of racial injustice this summer has also hurt his reelection chances. Rather than make an effort to empathize with the protesters, whose causeNow, a number of Republicans and Republican strategists worry that Trump is pushing away suburban voters with his rhetoric on protests and race.in July found that Biden has a 25-point advantage over Trump when it comes to who is better suited to handle race relations, and Trump has lost ground with White women, who are also seen as a key swing demographic and whom he won in 2016.
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