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Republican vice-presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance (Ohio) leaned into caller attacks by erstwhile President Trump connected Vice President Harris's inheritance during a rally successful Georgia Saturday, portion calling her run tactics "pretty weird."
Using the "weird" rhetoric Harris's run has levied astatine the Trump-Vance ticket, helium took a plaything astatine her caller rally astatine the aforesaid venue successful Atlanta.
“I deliberation it’s particularly weird erstwhile Kamala Harris comes to Atlanta, I judge came present to this… arena,” Vance told the crowd astatine Georgia State University. “Kamala Harris comes to Atlanta and talks with a fake Southern accent, adjacent though she grew up successful Canada, you can’t marque it up, that’s beauteous weird.”
“Go ticker the clip, she sounded similar a Southern belle,” helium continued “Even though she grew up successful Vancouver, doesn’t marque immoderate sense.”
While Harris spent immoderate of her younker successful Montreal, she besides lived successful Wisconsin increasing up.
“Let’s speech astir immoderate things that are weird,” Vance continued. “We deliberation it's weird that Democrats wanna enactment sexually explicit books successful toddlers’ libraries. We deliberation it's weird that the acold near wants to let biologic males to bushed the livin’ crap outta women successful boxing."
"We deliberation it’s weird for a statesmanlike campaigner to bail convicted rapists and murderers retired of prison, and that’s what Kamala Harris did," helium claimed, looking backmost astatine the vice president's clip arsenic a national authoritative successful California.
Harris, who was officially nominated Friday to beryllium the Democratic statesmanlike nominee, has faced a slew of disapproval implicit her inheritance successful caller days. She roseate to the apical of the summons aft President Biden stepped aside from the contention and endorsed her to instrumentality connected Trump successful the fall.
Earlier this week, Trump adjacent questioned her practice and radical individuality during an interview with Black journalists.
“She was ever of Indian heritage. And she was lone promoting Indian heritage,” Trump said during a combative interview astatine the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) normal Wednesday 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.”
His remarks were successful effect to a question ABC News governmental analogous Rachel Scott, who asked astir Republicans' claims that Harris — the archetypal Black and South Asian pistillate to beryllium elected arsenic vice president — was conscionable a "DEI" hire, referencing diversity, equity and inclusion.
Trump received heavy blowback for his comments, including from the White House.
“As a idiosyncratic of color, arsenic a Black pistillate … what helium conscionable said, what you conscionable work retired to me, is repulsive, it’s insulting and nary 1 has immoderate close to archer idiosyncratic who they are, however they identify,” White House property caput Karine Jean-Pierre, the archetypal Black idiosyncratic to person her role, said of his comments connected Harris’ contention and ethnicity.
During a run halt earlier this week successful Arizona, Vance defended the erstwhile president's comments, calling the absorption "hysterical" and comparing Harris to a "chameleon."
The Hill has reached retired to the Harris run for comment.
