Republican Senate Candidate Rips Trump’s ‘Unacceptable and Abhorrent’ Attacks on Kamala Harris’s Racial Identity

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Republican Senate candidate and former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan condemned former President Donald Trump for attacking Vice President Kamala Harris’ “racial identity” on Wednesday.

“It’s unacceptable and abhorrent to attack Vice President Harris or anyone’s racial identity,” wrote Hogan – who has been endorsed by Trump – in a social media post. “The American people deserve better.”

While Hogan did not call out Trump by name, the former president has repeatedly accused Harris of not being Black since she announced her campaign for the presidency following President Joe Biden’s decision to withdraw this month.

Speaking at the National Association of Black Journalists convention in Chicago on Wednesday, Trump remarked , “She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn’t know she was black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn black. And now she wants to be known as Black. So, I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?”

After ABC News reporter Rachel Scott pointed out that Harris “has always identified as a Black woman,” Trump replied, “I respect either one, but she obviously doesn’t because she was Indian all the way. And then all of a sudden she made a turn and she became a Black person.”

Trump also took aim at Harris’ racial identity during a campaign rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania on Wednesday, where he displayed an old headline that read, “Kamala Harris becomes first Indian-American US senator.”

Harris’ mother was born in India while her father was born in Jamaica.