Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) shut down a CNN reporter who tried to make him undermine President Donald Trump.
CNN correspondent Steve Contorno asked Vance to comment on Trump’s recent criticism of Vice President Kamala Harris’s history of race-switching.
As Slay News reported, Harris has long described herself as American-Indian throughout her political career.
However, since she was selected by Democrat President Joe Biden’s VP, Harris has more frequently described herself as black for political convenience.
Trump noted this during a recent interview, provoking faux outrage from the Left.
Vance visited the U.S. southern border on Thursday.
During a press conference in Cochise County, Arizona, Vance blasted Harris’s record as the “border czar.
CNN’s Contorno asked Vance whether Trump’s comments about Harris’s race were concerning to him as a “father of three biracial children.”
“He [Trump] said that Vice President Harris is ‘all the sudden black,'” the CNN reporter said in a clip shared on X.
“As a father of three biracial children, do those comments give you pause at all?”
Vance is married to attorney Usha Vance, a daughter of Indian immigrants.
The couple shares three biracial children.
“They don’t give me pause at all,” Vance fired back.
“Look, all he said is that Kamala Harris is a chameleon.
“She goes to Georgia two days ago, she was raised in Canada, she puts on a fake southern accent.
“She is everything to everybody and she pretends to be somebody different depending on which audience she is in front of.
“I think it’s totally reasonable for the [former] president to call that out,” Vance continued.
“And that’s all he did. Look, she’s running as a tough-on-crime prosecutor even though she implemented open border policies.
“She’s saying that she wants to support the police, yet she wanted to defund the police just three years ago.
“It’s totally reasonable to call out the fact that she pretends to be somebody different depending on the audience she’s talking to.”
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Trump made the comment Wednesday during a hostile interview with ABC News’s Rachel Scott.
Scott rudely asked the 45th president if he agreed with Republican lawmakers who have characterized Harris as a “DEI,” or diversity, equity, and inclusion, hire.
She then asked Trump if he believed Harris was chosen as Biden’s VP because she’s black.
However, Trump accurately noted that Harris hasn’t always identified as black.
“I’ve known her for a long time, indirectly, not directly… and she was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage,” Trump said.
“I didn’t know she was black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn black.
“And now she wants to be known as black.
“So, I don’t know, is she Indian or is she black?”
Scott then falsely claimed that Harris has always identified as black.
She added she went to a “historically black college.”
“I respect either one, but she obviously doesn’t because she was Indian all the way,” Trump said.
“And then, all of a sudden, she made a turn and… she became a black person.”
“I think somebody should look into that.”
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This comes as Harris faced a wave of criticism on social media after appearing to suddenly use a Southern accent during a speech in Atlanta, as referenced by Vance.
“You all helped us win in 2020 and we gonna do it again in 2024,” Harris, who is from California, told Atlanta rallygoers while seemingly debuting the new accent.
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Kamala Harris quoted Quavo to throw shade at Donald Trump 👀
"As my friend Quavo would say, he does not walk it like he talks it." pic.twitter.com/wXoxBNqt6x
— Kurrco (@Kurrco) July 30, 2024
The accent from Harris, who has also been accused of impersonating Barack Obama during speeches, immediately caught the attention of critics online.
Many accused the presumptive Democratic nominee of pandering to her audience.
