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TRUMP’S ATTACK ON HARRIS’S RACIAL IDENTITY MOVES CONTEST INTO NEW PHASE

The first Black and Asian woman to be a major-party presidential nominee
confronts her opponent’s comment that she “became a Black person.”

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Vice President Harris addresses a rally in Atlanta on Tuesday. (Demetrius
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By Cleve R. Wootson Jr.
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Sabrina Rodriguez
Updated July 31, 2024 at 8:58 p.m. EDT|Published July 31, 2024 at 8:22 p.m. EDT

For Vice President Harris’s supporters, Donald Trump’s lashing criticisms of her
racial identity on Wednesday came with blinding speed but little surprise: A
week after entering the race, the first Black and Indian American woman to top a
party’s presidential ticket is contending with Trump’s assertion that she leaned
into being Black for political expediency.


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