After former President Donald Trump falsely claimed Vice President Kamala Harris only recently 'became Black,' Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer defended the vice president as “a strong Black woman.” Schumer tells NBC News' Julie Tsirkin and Scott Wong that he believes Trump is scared to debate Harris.
WASHINGTON — A day after former President Donald Trump falsely said Kamala Harris only recently “became Black,” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer struck back Thursday and defended the vice president as “a strong Black woman” whom Trump is scared to debate. “Every day either Donald Trump or Vance make some kind of crazy statement, and it’s catching up to the American people.
Pressed about how Democrats should respond to such rhetoric, Schumer said it should be twofold: “We have to make it clear to the American people how ludicrous, how unhinged, this group, the Trump-Vance ticket, is. But at the same time, the high road remains— we have to show the American people what we want to do for them.” “It’s one, two,” he continued. “Go after them and show their falsities, their craziness, when they do these nutty things that they’re doing, these weird things they’re doing.
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