{"id":2317116,"date":"2024-07-31T21:39:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T01:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-comes-at-trump-after-turn-black-comments-we-deserve-better-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-07-31T21:40:54","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T01:40:54","slug":"harris-comes-at-trump-after-turn-black-comments-we-deserve-better-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-comes-at-trump-after-turn-black-comments-we-deserve-better-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris comes at Trump after &#8216;turn black&#8217; comments: We &#8216;deserve better&#8217;- Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fharris-comes-at-trump-after-turn-black-comments-we-deserve-better-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2317116&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a recent event in Houston, Vice President\u2063 Kamala Harris addressed former President Donald Trump&#8217;s\u2064 comments regarding her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/knowles-white-people-cant-be-any-less-white\/\" title=\"KNOWLES: White People Can\u2019t Be Any \u201cLess White\u201d\">racial identity<\/a>, specifically his\u2063 assertion that she &#8220;turned black.&#8221; During her keynote speech at a gathering honoring\u200b a historically \u200cblack sorority, Harris emphasized\u2063 the divisiveness and disrespect inherent in Trump&#8217;s remarks, declaring that the American\u2064 people deserve a leader who embraces truth \u2062and unity rather than hostility. Trump&#8217;s comments, \u200dmade during a Q&#038;A session at the National Association of Black Journalists conference, questioned Harris&#8217;s identity\u200c by suggesting she previously identified solely with her Indian heritage before acknowledging her black identity. White House press secretary Karine \u2063Jean-Pierre condemned\u200d Trump&#8217;s remarks as repulsive and emphasized that individuals alone define their identities. Harris&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/newsom-holds-indoor-event-at-restaurant-barred-from-offering-indoor-dining\/\" title=\"Newsom Holds Indoor Event at Restaurant Barred From Offering Indoor Dining\">campaign communications director<\/a> also criticized Trump for\u200d his history of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-loeffler-fires-back-after-ossoff-accuses-her-of-campaigning-with-kkk-member\/\" title=\"Sen. Loeffler Fires Back After Ossoff Accuses Her of Campaigning with KKK Member\">personal attacks<\/a> \u200dand divisiveness, framing\u2062 his comments\u200c as reflective of the chaotic and divisive nature of his campaign.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Harris goes after Trump &lsquo;divisiveness&rsquo; over attack on her racial identity<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1719989\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Kamala Harris<\/a> did not let former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a>&lsquo;s comments about her biracial background go unaddressed Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>During a keynote speech at a Houston event commemorating a historically black sorority, Harris underscored how Trump&rsquo;s remarks earlier in the day that she &ldquo;turned black&rdquo; were &ldquo;the same old show.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We all here remember what those four years were like, and today, we were giving yet another reminder,&rdquo; Harris told the crowd. &ldquo;This afternoon, Donald Trump spoke at the annual meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists, and it was the same old show, the divisiveness and the disrespect, and let me just say: The American people deserve better.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The American people deserve a leader who tells the truth, a leader who does not respond with hostility and anger when confronted with the facts,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;We deserve a leader who understands that our differences do not divide us. They are an essential source of our strength.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>During his lengthy Q&amp;A session at the conference in Chicago with three black journalists, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/fox-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Fox News<\/a>&lsquo;s Harris Faulkner, Trump asserted falsely that Harris had presented herself as an Indian woman and only later in her career identified as black. Harris&rsquo;s father was Jamaican and her mother was Indian American.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve known her a long time, indirectly, not directly, very much and she was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage,&rdquo; Trump said Wednesday afternoon. &ldquo;I didn&rsquo;t know she was black, until a number of years ago when she ran [as] black, and now she wants to be known as black. So, I don&rsquo;t know, is she Indian or is she black?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I respect either one, but she obviously doesn&rsquo;t because she was Indian all the way, and then all of a sudden, she made a turn and &hellip; she became a black person,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Harris was a member of the Congressional Black Caucus during her time in the Senate and years before that a member of a black sorority at a historically black college.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>White House <\/a>press secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/karine-jean-pierre\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Karine Jean-Pierre<\/a> was asked about Trump&rsquo;s comments during her briefing while his panel was still ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;What you just read out to me is repulsive, it&rsquo;s insulting, and, you know, no one has any right to tell someone who they are, how they identify. That is no one&rsquo;s right. It is someone&rsquo;s own decisions,&rdquo; Jean-Pierre told reporters after it was relayed to her what Trump said. &ldquo;I&rsquo;ll add this, only she can speak to her experience. Only she can speak to what it&rsquo;s like. She&rsquo;s the only person that can do that.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Harris campaign communications director Michael Tyler was also quick to excoriate Trump, contending the former president &ldquo;lobbed personal attacks and insults at black journalists the same way he did throughout his presidency.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Today&rsquo;s tirade is simply a taste of the chaos and division that has been a hallmark of Trump&rsquo;s MAGA rallies this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-lost-all-credibility-on-social-distancing-after-biden-celebrations\/\" title=\"Dems Lost All Credibility On Social Distancing After Biden Celebrations\">entire campaign<\/a>,&rdquo; Tyler wrote in a statement. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s also exactly what the American people will see from across the debate stage as Vice President Harris offers a vision of opportunity and freedom for all Americans. All Donald Trump needs to do is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-josh-hawley-calls-on-fauci-to-resign-after-e-mail-dump-demands-full-investigation\/\" title=\"Sen. Josh Hawley Calls On Fauci To Resign After E-Mail Dump, Demands Full Investigation\">stop playing games<\/a> and actually show up to the debate on Sept. 10.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Trump campaign similarly focused on Trump&rsquo;s at-times confrontational dynamic with his questioners, who, aside from Faulkner, included ABC&rsquo;s Rachel Scott and <em>Semafor&rsquo;s<\/em> Kadia Goba.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Members of the media need to make a decision, and answer if their goal is to unite the country or further divide us, because based on the unhinged and unprofessional commentary directed toward President&nbsp;Trump&nbsp;today by certain members of the media, many media elites clearly want to see us remain divided,&rdquo; Trump campaign senior adviser Lynne Patton, who herself is black, wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Today&rsquo;s biased and rude treatment from certain hostile members of the media will backfire massively,&rdquo; she added. &ldquo;You would think that the media would have learned something from their repeat episodes of fake outrage ever since President&nbsp;Trump&nbsp;first came down the escalator in 2015, but some just refuse to &lsquo;get it.&rsquo; This will be their undoing in 2024.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1719989\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1719989\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Kamala Harris responded to former President Donald Trump&#8217;s comments regarding her biracial identity during a keynote address at a Houston event celebrating a historically black sorority. She criticized Trump for saying she &#8220;turned black,&#8221; calling it &#8220;the same old show.&#8221; Harris reminded the audience of the divisive and disrespectful nature of Trump&#8217;s rhetoric, stating, &#8220;The American people deserve better.&#8221; She emphasized that the nation needs leaders who are truthful and who recognize that differences should be seen as strengths rather than divisions.<\/p>\n<p>During his Q&amp;A session at the National Association of Black Journalists meeting in Chicago, Trump made false claims about Harris&#8217;s racial identity, suggesting she had previously identified only as Indian before embracing her Black heritage. He questioned whether she was Indian or Black, implying inconsistency in her identity. In response to Trump&#8217;s remarks, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre condemned his comments as repulsive and asserted that only Harris has the right to define her own identity.<\/p>\n<p>Harris&#8217;s campaign communications director also criticized Trump for his personal attacks on journalists during his presidency. He described Trump&#8217;s recent comments as indicative of chaos and division characteristic of his rallies. The Trump campaign defended him by suggesting that media members need to choose between uniting or dividing the country and claimed that negative media treatment would backfire in future elections<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2652,"featured_media":2317117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/trump-harris-race.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[3801,4021,5894,3634,32076],"class_list":["post-2317116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-comments","tag-harris","tag-politics","tag-trump","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/trump-harris-race.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2652"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2317116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2317117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2317116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2317116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2317116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}