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Trump Elevates False, Fringe Attacks on Harris to Center of His Campaign
NY Times ^ | Aug 1,2024 | Ken Bensinger

Posted on 08/02/2024 4:57:40 AM PDT by McGruff

When former President Donald J. Trump questioned Vice President Kamala Harris’s racial identity on Wednesday, he lifted a longstanding and false line of attack from the fringes of political discourse to the very center of a presidential campaign.

For years, rivals and critics have lodged accusations that Ms. Harris shifts her personal identity to her political advantage, and that she is, in fact, not who she claims to be. Those attacks, based on falsehoods, misinformation and conspiratorial notions, have increased dramatically in the week and a half since she emerged as the Democrats’ all-but-certain standard-bearer.

Just hours after President Biden announced that he would not seek a second term, the right-wing agitator Laura Loomer posted on the social media site X that Ms. Harris “pretends to be black” as part of what she called a “delusional, Democrat DEI quota.”

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Kamala: “This is just an extraordinary testament to the importance of having a president who understands the power of diplomacy and understands the strength that rests in understanding the significance of diplomacy.”

Biden: Huh, what did she say?

21 posted on 08/02/2024 5:28:42 AM PDT by McGruff (Deep State is running the country.)
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To: McGruff

I think we are seeing peak KamelToe right now. It is all downhill for the SF Slut from now on.


22 posted on 08/02/2024 5:29:45 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Wallace T.

But Harris has made her race, gender, and ethnicity central to her campaign. In fact, it has been her identity and MO ever since she got into politics.


23 posted on 08/02/2024 5:32:17 AM PDT by kabar
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To: DrewsMum

Pandering just doesn’t work. Ask “I’ve come to far” Clinton. The “reporter” clearly caught flat footed when she said “ nobody ever said Harris was Indian “. Clearly a lie. When the Black Harris showed up in Atlanta complete with a southern accent it was a little too much. Harris had a pretty good upper middle income. Claiming the Black experience in America ,will it work?


24 posted on 08/02/2024 5:33:46 AM PDT by carcraft (Pray for our Country)
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To: sten

Heard this morning her dad said he was Indian and Irish. Her mom was Indian.

SHE’S NOT BLACK.


25 posted on 08/02/2024 5:41:34 AM PDT by lizma2
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To: paudio

Trump likes going into the lions’ den. That audience was hostile to the younger Bush. I heard what the “moderator” said, haranguing Trump in her first “question.” I would have reacted far more vehemently than Trump did. If anything, he should be commended for his restraint.


26 posted on 08/02/2024 5:42:00 AM PDT by Wallace T.
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To: McGruff

Only a marxist democrat would use the marines to plant a false flag.


27 posted on 08/02/2024 5:47:45 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: DrewsMum

There is no one on FR who believes Trumps assertion that until recently Kammie was holding herself out as Indian. 95%+ of people here would have said she held herself off as black going back to the Willie Brown days. Trump’s statement was awful and is easy to mock. Getting yourself back into the news cycle based on a stmt that can easily be called rassis, is not genius.


28 posted on 08/02/2024 5:47:52 AM PDT by Oystir ( )
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To: McGruff

“Those attacks, based on falsehoods, misinformation and conspiratorial notions...”
Sure glad the NYT isn’t editorializing...


29 posted on 08/02/2024 5:50:08 AM PDT by Demiurge2 (Define your terms!)
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To: Oystir

Riiiiigggghhhhttttt....

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/article124327739.html


30 posted on 08/02/2024 5:50:39 AM PDT by Cold_Red_Steel
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To: Demiurge2

“Those attacks, based on falsehoods, misinformation and conspiratorial notions...”

Which usually means “they’re true”.


31 posted on 08/02/2024 5:51:17 AM PDT by Rlsau1
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To: lizma2

Of course she’s Black. is a negro from Virginia not black because she’s from Virginia?


32 posted on 08/02/2024 5:52:18 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: DrewsMum

> He told the truth the other day, but but this junk doesn’t win elections.<

I turned the Indian-American cloud against her.

This is not an election of support on the dem side. It’s an election of hate. The lesser of two evils can win.

EC


33 posted on 08/02/2024 5:59:31 AM PDT by Ex-Con777
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To: Oystir

Oh please. Harris has been forever identified as an Indian American when she was a US Senator and VP. She’s only identifying now as being a “black” woman because it is politically advantageous for her. To see her recently in Atlanta in front of a largely black audience speaking with a black southern cadence, when she has never lived one day in the south nor has ever spoken in public that way, was cringeworthy. Trump’s statement is questioning her authenticity, and whether you agree with it or not, it’s making its mark in black communities where a growing number of people are questioning her newfound “blackness”.!


34 posted on 08/02/2024 6:01:51 AM PDT by dowcaet
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To: McGruff

Self righteous assclowns.


35 posted on 08/02/2024 6:09:36 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: McGruff

The NYT belongs on the rack at supermarket checkouts…..


36 posted on 08/02/2024 6:14:00 AM PDT by wny
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To: McGruff

The hoodwinking media does what hoodwinkers do... They lie. But the American people witnessed with the exit of Biden, what the mainstream media has been doing to them for the past three and half years... Lying to them. In November they won’t forgive the Democrats for lying to them and they won’t forget what the media did to aid Democrats.


37 posted on 08/02/2024 6:19:06 AM PDT by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: McGruff

Enemedia whiners stuck with a cackling idiot as their presidential candidate,


38 posted on 08/02/2024 6:32:18 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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wny @36: "The NYT belongs on the rack at supermarket checkouts…"/p>

The enemedia NYT is so bad it shouldn't even be used as a birdcage liner or to wrapped one's garbage.

39 posted on 08/02/2024 6:36:54 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: DrewsMum

it can if put into the long list of flip flops but probably at the end of the list. people have to be made to worry about which Kamala might rule the roost if a winner. there are a lot of issues on that list where R positions dominate so should be emphaasized.


40 posted on 08/02/2024 6:43:57 AM PDT by avital2
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