Kamala Harris Says Trump’s Racist Attacks Show 'American People Deserve Better'

“It was the same old show, the divisiveness and the disrespect," the vice president said at a conference for the Black sorority Sigma Gamma Rho.

Vice President Kamala Harris said Wednesday that the American people deserve better than former President Donald Trump after he questioned her ethnicity.

Trump dropped to a new low of mudslinging on Wednesday at a convention for Black journalists, accusing Harris of “turn[ing] Black” for political points. Harris was set to deliver remarks at the Black sorority Sigma Gamma Rho’s biennial conference in Houston, Texas, just hours later.

“We all here remember what those four years were like, and today we were given another reminder,” Harris told the crowd. “It was the same old show, the divisiveness and the disrespect.”

“The American people deserve a leader who tells the truth, a leader who does not respond with hostility and anger when confronted with the facts,” she went on. “We deserve a leader who understands that our differences do not divide us.”

Trump has long questioned his opponents’ racial identities, and was a proponent of the baseless “birther” conspiracy theory that suggested former President Barack Obama is not a U.S. citizen.