Hours after Donald Trump spewed a racist attack on Kamala Harris and echoed his past birtherism of former President Barack Obama by demanding that “somebody should look into” her ethnicity, the vice president summed up his contentious exchange Wednesday at the National Association of Black Journalists: “It was the same old show.”
At an event for Sigma Gamma Rho, a Black sorority, in Houston, Harris’ mention of the GOP presidential nominee’s outburst was brief yet to-the-point.
“It was the same old show—the divisiveness and the disrespect. And let me just say, the American people deserve better,” she said to applause. “The American people deserve a leader who tells the truth, not a leader who responds with hostility and anger when confronted with the facts. We deserve a leader who understands that our differences do not divide us. They are an essential source of our strength.”
