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Facing backlash, Trump digs in on attacks misrepresenting Harris' racial identity

PBS News Hour - Segments

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🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Former President Trump is facing backlash for calling Vice President Kamala Harris' racial identity into question when he addressed a Black journalists convention. That's as the vice president herself wrapped up a series of events aimed at speaking directly to Black voters. Laura Barrón-López reports. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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Former President Donald Trump is facing backlash for calling Vice President

0:05.2

Kamala Harris's racial identity into question when he addressed a Black

0:09.4

Journalists Convention yesterday. That says the Vice President herself wrapped up a series of events

0:15.0

aimed at speaking directly to black voters. Our Laura Baron Lopez has more.

0:21.2

Delivering the eulogy before hundreds of mourners at Falbrook Church in

0:25.0

north Houston today, Vice President Kamala Harris bid farewell to a friend,

0:30.0

the late Texas representative Sheila Jackson Lee,

0:32.9

who served in Congress for nearly three decades

0:35.4

and became one of its most influential black members.

0:38.8

To honor her memory, let us continue to fight

0:42.1

to realize the promise of America, a promise of freedom, opportunity, and justice.

0:49.0

Not just for some, but for all.

0:53.3

Harris, remembering a fellow black woman trailblazer

0:56.8

as her own racial identity is being attacked

0:59.4

by her rival Donald Trump.

1:01.5

Speaking to a historically black sorority yesterday, Harris slammed

1:05.0

her opponent hours after the Republican nominee questioned her racial identity.

1:09.4

Donald Trump spoke at the annual meeting of the National Association of Black Journalists.

1:17.6

And it was the same old show.

1:21.1

The divisiveness and the disrespect.

1:26.7

And let me just say, the American people deserve better.

1:31.8

Trump was asked if Harris, who is poised to be the first black and South Asian

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