Critics of Vice President Kamala Harris claim she was only picked to be President Joe Biden’s running mate because of her race and the left’s goal of checking its DEI boxes.
Former President Donald Trump pointed just that out to a crowd during the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ).
“I’ve known her for a long time, indirectly, not directly… and she was always of Indian heritage, and she was only promoting Indian heritage,” Trump said. “I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black. And now she wants to be known as Black. So, I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?”
Other Republicans such as Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) and Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) have also insinuated Harris was chosen as vice president to fill a gap in the Democrat’s “DEI” box.
In 2019, Biden himself admitted that whoever he chose as his running mate would be of color.
“Whomever I pick, preferably it will be someone who was of color and/or a different gender, but I’m not making that commitment until I know that the person I’m dealing with I can completely and thoroughly trust as authentic and on the same page,” he said at the time.
In reality, Harris was chosen to be Biden’s vice president based solely on her skin color— not because of her qualifications.
That is why Americans struggle to answer what Harris’s most significant accomplishments were.