Kamala Harris already faces racism and sexism from Trump and Republicans
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🗓️ 24 July 2024
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Summary
Her Republican opponent, Donald Trump, has a record of personally attacking women of color who stand in his way.
Sexist and racist attacks on Harris have already started. How might they impact her bid for office?
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| 0:00.0 | Vice President Kamala Harris is barreling towards the Democratic nomination for president, |
| 0:06.3 | so we can probably expect more of this from her opponent. |
| 0:11.8 | I thought she was the meanest, |
| 0:16.9 | the most horrible, most disrespectful |
| 0:19.8 | of anybody in the US Senate. |
| 0:22.2 | That is former President Trump back in 2020, |
| 0:25.3 | criticizing Harris as Joe Biden's VP pick. |
| 0:28.8 | Trump has a record of personally attacking |
| 0:31.3 | black women in power. He went after New York |
| 0:33.7 | Attorney General Letitia James and Fawnee Willis the district attorney in |
| 0:37.6 | Fulton County, Georgia who brought one of the election interference cases |
| 0:40.7 | against him. Listen to Trump in 2023. |
| 0:43.9 | There's a young woman, a young racist in Atlanta. |
| 0:47.7 | She's racist. |
| 0:49.4 | And they say, I guess, they say that she was after a certain gang and she ended up having an |
| 0:55.3 | affair with the head of the gang or a gang member and this is a person that wants |
| 0:59.5 | to indict me she's got a lot of problems. There's no evidence to support those claims. |
| 1:04.0 | Meanwhile, Trump also targets children of immigrants, |
| 1:07.4 | like Republican Nicky Haley, who attempted to run for president. |
| 1:10.8 | Trump had mocked Haley's birth name this year and suggested online that she would be ineligible |
| 1:16.4 | for the presidency because her parents are immigrants from India. |
| 1:20.4 | He did the same thing with former President Obama multiple times. |
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