WASHINGTON ‒ In their first and likely only presidential debate, Republican Donald Trump doubled down on his impertinent suggestion that his rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, had only recently “turned Black.”
“All I can say is I read where she was not Black that she put out,” Trump told the moderators during the Philadelphia debate this month. “Then I read she was Black, and that’s OK.”
The Democratic nominee appeared rattled for a moment, but she rebounded by casting the former president’s entire career as someone who has “attempted to use race to divide.”
That’s what experts and activists say Trump is doing with just seven weeks left until Election Day.
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