Raphael Warnock Calls Out 'Sad Irony' After Trump Questions Kamala Harris' Race
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Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, had falsely accused Harris of not previously identifying as Black.
Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) has called out the “sad irony” in former President Donald Trump’s recent attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris, in which he questioned her Black racial identity.
During a Wednesday appearance on CNN’s “Laura Coates Live,” Warnock slammed Trump, who spoke at the National Association of Black Journalists Convention in Chicago earlier that day, for promoting “division and hatred” by falsely accusing Harris of not previously identifying as Black.
“He doesn’t even recognize the sad irony of his remark,” said Warnock, who is Black. “In a real sense, Kamala Harris’ story is an iteration of the American story. The diversity that is among us and often within us.”
“She carries that literally in her veins,” he later continued. “In that sense, he doesn’t know who we are.”
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