Trump once more questions Harris’ racial, ethnic id in podcast interview

Former President Donald Trump as soon as once more falsely questioned Vice President Kamala Harris’ racial and ethnic id throughout an interview with the “PBD Podcast” that aired on Thursday.

Trump — who spoke with the podcast’s host, Patrick Guess-David, on Wednesday — mentioned that lots of people weren’t conscious that Harris is Black.

“They’ve a girl who’s Black, though you’d say she’s Indian, however she is Black, however she actually — lots of people did not know, which is true,” Trump mentioned.

Guess-David responded that he wasn’t conscious till lately that Harris was Black.

“I discovered about it solely a few months in the past,” Guess-David mentioned.

Harris is the daughter of a Jamaican father and an Indian mom.

Each Trump and Guess-David continued to joke about Harris’ racial and ethnic id, evaluating her to baseball participant Sammy Sosa, whose complexion had allegedly gotten lighter after he mentioned he utilized bleaching cream each evening to melt his pores and skin.

“You typically should respect individuals, proper? So I assumed possibly she was doing a Sammy Sosa the opposite manner,” Guess-David mentioned, to which Trump agreed, saying, “Yeah Sammy’s modified. And folks change.”

Trump’s feedback come at a time that his marketing campaign is working to attraction to voters of shade together with Black voters — a voting bloc the place Harris leads, in line with current polling. Harris is polling forward of Trump with Black voters who’re registered to vote, 82-13%, in line with the newest ABC Information/Ipsos ballot.

This is not the primary time Trump has mentioned Harris’ racial id — making false claims within the course of.

Trump falsely claimed that Harris has not recognized as each Black and Indian throughout an interview on the Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists convention in July.

“I did not know she was Black till plenty of years in the past when she occurred to show Black and now, she needs to be often called Black. So, I do not know, is she Indian or is she Black?” Trump mentioned throughout the NABJ interview.

He went on to wrongly say that “she was Indian all the way in which, after which hastily she made a flip, and he or she went — she grew to become a Black particular person.”

Trump doubled down on the false claims throughout ABC’s presidential debate in September.

Requested by moderators about his earlier feedback on Harris’ race, the previous president mentioned he “could not care much less” about her racial id.

“I do not care what she is. I do not care,” Trump mentioned Tuesday. “No matter she needs to be is OK with me.”

Harris responded, saying Trump has made feedback about race to divide the nation.

“Truthfully, I believe it is a tragedy that we now have somebody who needs to be president who has persistently over the course of his profession tried to make use of race to divide the American individuals,” Harris mentioned throughout the debate. “I believe the American individuals need higher than that, need higher than this.”

ABC Information reached out to the Harris marketing campaign for a touch upon Trump’s point out of her race within the podcast, however didn’t obtain a response by the point of publication.

Trump’s marketing campaign responded to his remarks on the podcast, with its Black Media Director Janiyah Thomas telling ABC Information in a press release that “on the finish of the day, it does not matter to President Trump how Kamala Harris chooses to establish herself right now, yesterday, or tomorrow.”

“What does matter to President Trump is the truth that she is making this nation much less protected and fewer reasonably priced,” Thomas added.