Donald Trump suggested Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris had decided to “turn Black” for political gain, as he attacked his Democratic White House rival during a combative interaction with African American journalists in Chicago.
The Republican former president’s inflammatory comments marked an escalation of the 78-year-old’s vitriol against Harris, whom he falsely accused of having identified as Indian but then, “all of a sudden, she made a turn, and she became a Black person.”
Harris, 59, has long identified as Black and graduated from a historically Black university.
“So I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?” asked Trump during a heated interview at the National Association of Black Journalists conference.
