Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) is dealing with some warmth on-line after he mentioned throughout a information convention on Wednesday that Vice President Kamala Harris is faking “who she is.”
Whereas chatting with reporters throughout a marketing campaign cease in Michigan, the Republican vice presidential nominee was requested to weigh in on Donald Trump’s current remarks about Harris’ Black identification as he campaigns for a return to the White Home.
Throughout a contentious look on the Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists conference final month, the previous president falsely accused Harris — who’s each Black and of South Asian heritage — of not figuring out as Black till a number of years in the past.
Vance, who has three biracial kids (his spouse’s mother and father are from India), on Wednesday defended Trump’s assaults on Harris.
“I am the father of biracial children… and look, I was not bothered at all by what President Trump said. I didn’t take it as an attack on Kamala Harris’ biracial background at all,” he instructed the reporters in a session recorded on C-SPAN. “What I took it as was an attack on Kamala Harris being a chameleon.”
“She pretends to be one thing when she’s in front of one audience. She pretends to be something else when she’s in front of another audience,” he continued.
Vance then argued that Trump’s misguided accusations surrounding Harris’ identification have been “totally inoffensive” and have been as a substitute an announcement about Harris pretending “to be something different depending on which audience she’s speaking to.”
The Republican senator then pivoted the dialog to Harris’ positions on coverage points, calling her “a fake.”
A reporter pressed Vance additional, asking, “She is both Indian and Black. How can she fake her race?”
“She fakes who she is depending on the audience that she’s in front of, and that’s who she is and that’s who she’s always been,” Vance responded.
Some individuals on X, previously Twitter, charged that Vance was being hypocritical, contemplating his previous robust criticisms of Trump. He beforehand described himself as a “Never Trump Guy” and as soon as contemplated whether or not Trump was “America’s Hitler.”
“Does he not see the irony of his statement since he was a Never Trumper?” one individual wrote.
“Says the guy who completely switched sides [once] he saw how good the grift was,” wrote one other.
Others questioned why Trump and Vance suppose discussing Harris’ biracial identification would assist their marketing campaign.
“This is not a winning campaign message,” one X consumer wrote.
Trump’s unfounded accusations about Harris’ manipulation of her Black identification sparked a firestorm of controversy, with some GOP politicians attempting to distance themselves from his remarks.
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