Ohio Sen. JD Vance, Donald Trump’s running mate, is defending a false claim the former president made about Vice President Kamala Harris’ racial identity.
Find Insider Deals for items perfect around the house and on the goRepublican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, speaks at a campaign event at Wollard International, Aug. 7, 2024, in Eau Claire, Wis. “What I took it as was an attack on Kamala Harris being a chameleon,” he told reporters when asked in Michigan about the former president's suggestion that Harris, the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, had only recently identified as Black.
As an undergraduate, Harris attended Howard University, one of the nation’s most prominent historically Black colleges and universities, where she also pledged the historically Black sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha. Harris identified as both Black and Indian in an Associated Press story published that same year about the number of candidates of Indian descent running for prominent offices that year.
The echo of Trump’s claim comes as the Republican nominee has tried to cut into Harris' fundraising and media attention following her taking over President Joe Biden's campaign afterfor making personal attacks that echo his past questioning of President Barack Obama's citizenship, instead of pivoting to issues like the economy or immigration.
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