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(NewsNation) — Former President Donald Trump connected Wednesday told a league of Black journalists that helium didn't cognize Vice President Kamala Harris was Black until "she happened to crook Black."
Trump attended a Q&A league astatine a gathering of Black journalists successful Chicago, his campaign’s latest effort to unafraid enactment from Black voters, a cardinal demographic up of November. His comments were a effect to a question astir immoderate Republicans' efforts to minimize Harris’ rubric arsenic the nation’s archetypal Black and Asian American pistillate to service arsenic vice president connected a large enactment ticket.
According to her detractors, her presumption was a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) "hire."
“Is that acceptable connection to you, and volition you archer those Republicans and those supporters to halt it?” ABC News’ Rachel Scott asked.
“How bash you specify 'DEI'?” Trump replied.
“She was ever of Indian heritage, and she was lone promoting Indian heritage,” Trump said. “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.”
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