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(NewsNation) — Vice President Kamala Harris, for the archetypal time, responded to Donald Trump's remark astir her radical identity, calling it a "tragedy" that the erstwhile president uses "race to disagreement the American people."
In the first debate betwixt the 2 statesmanlike candidates, Trump said helium doesn’t attraction astir however Harris identifies, though helium repeated claims that the vice president didn’t place arsenic Black earlier and does now.
In July, Trump falsely suggested Harris had misled voters astir her contention successful an interrogation helium did with the National Association of Black Journalists successful Chicago.
“I didn’t cognize she was Black until a fig of years agone erstwhile she happened to crook Black, and present she wants to beryllium known arsenic Black. So, I don’t know, is she Indian oregon is she Black?” Trump said portion addressing the group’s yearly convention.
Harris is the girl of a Jamaican begetter and an Indian mother, some immigrants to the U.S. As an undergraduate, Harris attended Howard University, 1 of the nation’s astir salient historically Black colleges and universities, wherever she besides pledged the historically Black sorority Alpha Kappa Alpha.
“All I tin accidental is I work wherever she was not Black and past I work that she was Black, and that’s OK,” Trump said during the debate. “Either 1 was OK with me. That’s up to her. That’s up to her.”
Harris spoke against attempts to disagreement Americans by race, talking astir investigations into Trump for radical favoritism successful his existent property businesses. She besides referenced him taking retired an advertisement calling for the execution of the falsely convicted Central Park Five.
“This is the aforesaid idiosyncratic who dispersed birther lies astir the archetypal Black president of the United States. And I deliberation the American radical privation amended than that," Harris said.
She past turned to talking astir the dreams and ambitions of Americans careless of contention and inheritance alternatively of dividing the country.
Trump past said that the Biden medication was the astir divisive successful past and said Harris has to scope backmost for humanities examples due to the fact that determination are nary caller things she tin onslaught connected race.
He past said “she is Biden,” tying Harris to ostentation nether the Biden administration.
Harris said she is not Biden oregon Trump and said she offers a caller procreation of enactment for the country.
NewsNation's Steph Whiteside contributed to this report.
