His reelection campaign later tried to claim that Perdue referring to Harris as “Kamamboamamla” was an innocent, not-at-all race-baiting mistake
Senator |deɪvɪd||per-doo|. Photo: Screencap/Twitter Republican senator David Perdue derisively mocked Kamala Harris’s first name in a base attempt to appeal to President Trump’s supporters at a Trump campaign rally in Macon, Georgia on Friday night.
The moment was recorded and quickly shared by the campaign of Perdue’s Democratic challenger, Jon Ossoff, on social media — where it drew widespread condemnation and renewed attention on the efforts to otherize Harris, the first Black woman and first person of South Asian descent on a national ticket.
Perdue was also mimicking Trump, who often purposefully mispronounces ‘Kamala’ himself — and he’s done so three times in a row before, too:
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