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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Helen Sullivan

‘It was the same old show’: Kamala Harris responds to Trump’s attacks on her racial identity

US vice-president Kamala Harris addresses the Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority in Houston, Texas, on Wednesday in which she responded to Donald Trump questioning her race.
US vice-president Kamala Harris addresses the Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority in Houston, Texas, on Wednesday in which she responded to Donald Trump questioning her race. Photograph: Leslie Plaza Johnson/EPA

Kamala Harris has shrugged off Donald Trump’s questioning of her racial identity, saying that it was “the same old show” and that “America deserves better”, at a rally in Texas.

On Wednesday, in an appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ), Trump antagonised senior Black journalists and questioned Harris’s race, saying, “She was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage. I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago, when she happened to turn Black.”

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