‘It Breaks My Heart’: Kamala Harris Rips Trump and Vance For ‘Spewing Lies’ And Making Children Live In Fear In Ohio

Vice President Kamala Harris spoke to the National Association of Black Journalists on Tuesday and at one point was asked to comment on the events in Ohio, where migrants are being harassed following debunked claims they are eating their neighbors’ pets.

“To Springfield, Ohio and what’s happened there. We’ve seen school closures. Parents worried about their kids leaving the home because of racist conspiracy theories that I won’t repeat here, but they have been repeated by leaders on the Republican side,” began Politico’s Eugene Daniels, adding:

President Trump, vice president, excuse me former President Trump, and vice presidential nominee JD Vance. From your perspective, is this just a case of irredeemable racism that can’t be mitigated by any rational action? Or is this a situation in which a federal response could help this community heal? There’s a question of resources and…

“Well, I’ll let you finish me and I’ll speak,” Harris jumped in as Daniels urged to her to continue.

“It’s a crying shame. I mean, my heart breaks for this community . You know, there were children, elementary school children, who it was it was school photo day. You remember what that’s like going to school on picture day. Who dressed up in their best, got all ready, knew what they were going to wear the night before, and had to be evacuated. Children. Children. A whole community put in fear,” Harris continued, adding:

And I’ll say a couple of things about it. One, you know, I learned a long time ago in my career having a background as a prosecutor. When you have these positions, when you have that kind of microphone in front of you, you really ought to understand at a very deep level how much your words have meaning. I learned at a very young stage in my career that the meaning of my words could impact whether somebody was free or in prison.

As attorney general, of California, fifth largest economy in the world. I was acutely aware that my words could move markets. When you are bestowed with a microphone that is that big, there is a profound responsibility that comes with that. That is an extension of what should not be lost in this moment, this concept of the public trust.

To then understand what the public trust means. It means that you have been invested with trust to be responsible in the way you use your words, much less how you conduct yourself, and especially when you have been, and then seek to be again president of the United States of America. And so I go back to it’s a crying shame, literally, what’s happening to those families, those children in that community, not to mention what is happening in terms of, look, you say you care about law enforcement, law enforcement resources being put into this because of these serious threats that are being issued against a community that is living a productive, good life before this happened and spewing lies that are grounded in tropes that are age old.

And look, I said it not very far from here the other day at the debate. This is not new. This is not new in terms of these tropes. This is not new in terms of where it’s coming from.

Watch the clip above via CNN.