Indian-origin Congressman Ro Khanna took a potshot at Indian-origin MAGA commentator Dinesh D'Souza after D'Souza defended his daughter, Danielle D'Souza, the wife of Rep Brandon Gill, as an American because she is a Christian born in America to a white mother. The defense was necessitated by Hasan Piker's attack on Brandon Gill that his wife is Indian -- but the qualifiers that Dinesh D'Souza used to prove that his daughter is an American came under criticism.
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Democrat leader Ro Khanna said: "Dinesh, like your daughter I was born in America & have an Indian immigrant father. I am Hindu and my mom is not white. Does that make me any less American or matter in any sense?"
Citing Abraham Lincoln's July 4 speech from 1858, Ro Khanna said Lincoln solved this conundrum as to who can be considered an American long ago. "Lincoln said that if you believe in the Constitution, if you believe in the Declaration of Independence, then there is an electric chord that links your heart to the hearts of the men who fought in the Revolution for those principles, and that you are blood of the blood and flesh of the flesh of our founders. He articulated why our nation, unique in the history of the world, is constituted based on a devotion to a common set of ideals and principles," Khanna wrote.
