Why do Black Pennsylvania voters think Kamala Harris is not Black? Was Donald Trump right to question her Black identity?
Donald Trump right to say that his political rival Kamala Harris was not a Black woman? This was not the first time that the daughter of a Jamaican father and an Indian mother had faced such a racial question. But a White Republican candidate must raise this question about the presumptive Democrat candidate just before the US Presidential Election 2024. However, the question of Black identity took a new twist when some Black male voters in Pennsylvania said that they didn’t consider the vice president to be Black before Trump's comments.
Is Kamala Harris a Black woman?
According to Fox News, CNN host Michael Smerconish shared a clip of local CBS news affiliate reporter Joel D. Smith talking to a group of Black men at a barbershop last week. When Smith asked them «Is Kamala gonna make you a little more likely or less likely to vote Democrat?» The Black man replied, «I’m gonna let her speak on that, but to me, no.» Another potential Black voter said he shared the same view. Someone else said she heard that Kamala Harris was not a Black woman. He reiterated that he heard she was half Black and half Asian.
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What did Donald Trump say at NABJ?
During a Q&A event at the National Association of Black Journalists, Donald Trump claimed Harris changed her racial background. He said that Kamala Harris was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage. He added he did not know she was Black until
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