Black Trump Supporters Lay Into Kamala Harris on MSNBC: ‘We All Know She Isn’t Black!’
MSNBC’s Alex Wagner talked to Black voters in Philadelphia backing former President Donald Trump and found some even backing his questioning of Vice President Kamala Harris’s race.
In a special election episode where Wagner spoke with Democratic and Republican voters in the swing state of Pennsylvania, Wagner sat down with members of the Black Republican Club of Philadelphia and she dug into why Harris is not getting Black voters as enthused as other Democrats in past elections.
“Do you think it matters that she’s a woman and people aren’t comfortable have a woman in a top leadership role?” Wagner asked.
“No, I don’t think that because most men, they love their mothers, they love their wives, so as a woman, most men, they respect the woman, but she just doesn’t have the qualification or the education to really run America,” a voter named Justice Felix said.
A voter named Dr. Alfie Goodwin said she had issues with Harris’s work as a prosecutor before becoming a senator and then vice president.
“For me, the very first time I ever heard the name Kamala Harris, it was in association to locking up parents for truancy. That was the first time I ever heard of her name, and I really didn’t understand how this person claims to be a Black woman, but yet she’s locking up Black women and Black men and separating families,” she said.
Wagner then brought up Trump’s controversial comments in which he claimed Harris “turned Black.” During an appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists conference in Chicago, 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?”
Harris’s mother is from India and her father is from Jamaica.
Wagner found some in agreement with Trump’s assessment of Harris.
“Absolutely. When she was sworn into the Senate, it was as the first Indian American,” Dr. Goodwin said with another voter throwing out a “thank you” in the background.
“Which is fine! We don’t care,” Dr. Goodwin said.
“We all know she’s not Black, let’s understand that,” a voter named Valerie Martin added. “We are all clear on that.”
Wagner noted at the end of the segment that despite any struggles with Black voters, Harris still holds a majority of support over Trump and it’s really about how many voters the former president can “pick off.”
“To be clear, the voters I spoke with here are not representative of Black voters in Philadelphia on the whole. Black voters are expected to support Kamala Harris by a wide margin in this election,” she said. “The question is how many voters from this blue county can Donald Trump pick off?”
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