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Trump insists on false claims about Harris’ ethnic identity
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Trump insists on false claims about Harris’ ethnic identity

Former President Donald Trump reiterated his false claims about Vice President Kamala Harris’s ethnicity, including claiming that she “accidentally turned black.”

When moderators asked him about previous comments, Trump said Tuesday that he “doesn’t care at all” about Kamala Harris’s ethnicity.

“I don’t care what she is. I don’t care,” Trump said Tuesday. “Whatever she wants to be is fine with me.”

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump participate in a presidential debate in Philadelphia on September 10, 2024.

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Trump had previously falsely claimed in an interview at the National Association of Black Journalists conference in Chicago in August that Harris did not identify as both black and Native American.

“I didn’t know she was black until she happened to be black a few years ago and now she wants to be known as black. So, I don’t know, is she Indian or is she black?” Trump said during the NABJ interview.

Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump speaks during a presidential debate with Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris on September 10, 2024 in Philadelphia.

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He added: “She was Indian through and through, and then suddenly she turned around and became – she became black.”

Harris has always identified as both Native American and Black and has long been connected to both cultures.

After Trump reiterated his comments, Harris went on the attack, saying Trump had made statements about race throughout his career to divide the country.

“Frankly, I think it’s a tragedy that we have someone who wants to be president when he has tried, time and time again, throughout his career to use race to divide the American people,” she said. “I think the American people want something better than this, want something better than this.”

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