Republicans Freak Out Over Trump’s New Race-Based Attack on Harris

Republican lawmakers were horrified by Donald Trump’s comments Wednesday questioning Kamala Harris’ racial identity.

The GOP presidential nominee’s comments—in which he claimed not to know Harris “was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black”—was met with gasps at a gathering of the National Association of Black Journalists in Chicago. The vice president unsurprisingly condemned the remarks, which also appear to have left members of Trump’s own party similarly aghast.

Some Republicans publicly slammed Trump’s attacks. Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, who is now a Senate candidate, said it’s “unacceptable and abhorrent to attack Vice President Harris or anyone’s racial identity.” “The American people deserve better,” he wrote on X, a sentiment shared by Harris in her own denunciation of the attack.

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