Former President Donald Trump's latest approach to Vice President Kamala Harris has been to turn her into a chameleon who adjusts her background, beliefs and professed persona to fit relevant audiences and whom voters cannot trust to represent -be truthful to herself or her campaign.
“The contrast could not be more marked,” Trump said at a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. “On the one hand, you have a radical left-wing puppet candidate who is fake, fake, fake, and on the other hand, you have a president who will fight, fight for America.”
Just below Trump on the ticket, Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, proposed Thursday that Harris had a “fundamental chameleon nature” and adjusted his personality to his audience, NOTUS reported. “When a reporter asked him pointedly if he questions whether Harris is black, Vance said, 'What I'm wondering is why he presents a different stance depending on which audience he's in front of.'
The Trump team's lines of attack have largely addressed his ever-changing self-description of his ethnicity and what he saw as a shift in the vice president's presentation. Harris, Trump has said, previously emphasized her Indian heritage, but has shifted attention to her black background amid her rise to the top of the party's ticket.
Harris was born to a Jamaican father, Donald Jasper Harris, and an Indian mother, the late Shyamala Gopalan Harris. Both immigrated to the United States in the late 20th century. Throughout his career, the media has highlighted different components of its diverse origin.
The vice president's campaign and her supporters have placed a lot of emphasis on her racial background. His campaign reached approx 200 million dollars in the first week of his candidacy, with much of that sum derived from Zoom calls targeting and inviting specific groups of gender and/or race. These calls heavily emphasized Harris' racial background and invoked concepts such as “white privilege” to justify their support of Harris. said Reason magazine “There was a lot of recognition of privilege, combined with disdain for any white woman who might use her privilege in a way that Democrats don't like.”
“We're here because… BIPOC women have used us as white women to step up, listen and get involved this election season,” she influences. said Arielle Fodor in a now infamous Zoom call directed at white women. A separate Zoom call hosted by the Win with Black Woman coalition saw participants refer to Harris as “our sister.”
But Trump has insisted that Harris' portrayal of his heritage has been varied and opportunistic, saying it was a “fake”.
Trump suggests Harris reversed racial identities
Speaking at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) convention on Wednesday, Trump addressed Harris' ancestrysaying, “I've known her for a long time, indirectly … and she was always of Indian origin, and she was just promoting Indian heritage.”
“I didn't know she was black until a few years ago when she became black and now she wants to be known as black. So, I don't know, is she Indian or black? added.
Harris, ha previously indicated that her mother raised her as a black woman. He attended Howard University, a historically black institution. The comments drew a litany condemnatory headlines and prompted sharp reactions from black officials in the Biden administration, including White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
But Trump and the campaign have doubled down, evidently hoping to shape the narrative. Two Trump advisers said so Just the news that raising the issue of Harris' background at the NABJ was deliberate and designed to get her to discuss race rather than her criminal record, which she had highlighted in contrast to Trump's status as a convicted felon.
Harris fakes a southern accent
The black vote is critically important to the Democratic Party, especially in southern states like North Carolina and Georgia. Harris, meanwhile, held a rally in Atlanta this week with the rapper Megan Thee Stallionpartly in the hope of galvanizing this part of the electorate.
Fueling Trump's attacks was an awkward moment of that event in which Harris herself has faked a southern accenttelling fans that “you all helped us win in 2020 and we'll do it again in 2024.”
“Did you hear a new accent? If you ever did that … I'd have a week of hell if you ever tried to do that,” Trump said at the Harrisburg rally, referring to the incident.
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“You all helped us in 2020, and we'll do it again in twenty twenty-five years.”
Harris also boasted about his record on illegal immigration.
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Cooking with Mindy Kaling
Trump's initial remarks at the NABJ drew critical headlines, but he insists on highlighting Harris' past public embrace of his Indian heritage. After his statements, he later posted video footage of Harris with the actress Mindy Kaling in which Harris claimed she was Indian. Kaling, whose real name is Vera Mindy Chokalingam, is of Indian descent and was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
“Crazy Kamala says she's Indian, not black. That's a big deal. Stone cold fake. She's using everyone, including their racial identity!” Trump posted.
The clip dates from Harris' 2020 presidential campaign and features Harris and Kaling preparing to cook an Indian recipe as they discussed their shared Indian background.
“Okay, what we're going to cook today is an Indian recipe, because you're Indian,” Kaling told Harris, to which he replied “yes.”
“I don't know that everybody knows,” Kaling continued. “But I find that wherever I go, and I see Indian people in the supermarket, everyone says 'you know Kamala Harris is Indian, right?' It is like ours that we are very excited that you will take the presidency.”
“So we're both Indian, but we're both really South Indian,” Kaling continued. Harris then claimed that she grew up eating South Indian food and stated that Kaling looked like “half of my family”.
Photograph with grandparents and sister
Trump posted a photo of Harris with her on Thursday grandparents and sister Meena dressed in traditional Indian clothing. The photo shows Harris wearing a Bindi, a traditional Hindu forehead mark worn by women.
The exact date of the photo is unclear, but it is decades old.
“Thank you Kamala for the beautiful photo you sent so many years ago! Your warmth, friendship and love for your Indian heritage is greatly appreciated.” Trump said.
Kamala “Chameleon”
Trump himself is not the only Republican raising the issue. His running mate, JD Vance, defended Trump's remarks at the NABJ during a campaign appearance in Arizona.
“So what he said, I thought was hysterical. I think he pointed out the fundamental chameleon nature of Kamala Harris,” Vance said, according to NOTUS. And you guys saw it yesterday, she was in Georgia and she put on a southern accent for a Georgia audience. He grew up in Vancouver. What the hell is going on here? She is not who she pretends to be.”
“What I'm wondering is why he presents a different stance depending on the audience he's in,” he added.
“While Phony Kamala Harris is fake, fake[,] false: President Trump will fight, fight, fight to make America great again!” said Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt. Just the news.
Ben Whedon is an editor and reporter for Just the News. Follow him on X.
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