Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina has a suggestion for his longtime ally, former President Donald Trump — lay off on all of the racially charged assaults on Vice President Kamala Harris.
Ever since Harris turned the presumptive Democratic nominee, Trump has unleashed a barrage of race-driven feedback on her.
In response, Graham mentioned in a Fox Information Sunday interview that Trump ought to focus much less on Harris’ heritage and extra on her “dangerous judgment.”
“So, this is what I might say to President Trump. The issue I’ve with Kamala Harris is just not her heritage, it is her judgment,” he mentioned.
“On daily basis, we’re speaking about her heritage and never her horrible, harmful liberal document all through her complete political life,” Graham added.
“So, I might encourage President Trump to prosecute the case in opposition to Kamala Harris’ dangerous judgment,” he mentioned. “That is your election to lose. It is vital to win.”
Graham’s feedback got here after Trump’s incendiary remarks throughout a panel interview on the Nationwide Affiliation of Black Journalists convention in Chicago when he mentioned he did not know Harris was Black “till a lot of years in the past.”
Trump has additionally tried to show to his followers that Harris — who’s biracial — is Indian and never Black. He posted an previous picture of Harris to his Fact Social account on August 1, the place she was wearing a sari.
Harris has endured a slew of race and gender-driven assaults since President Joe Biden endorsed her for the highest ticket.
However political specialists advised BI that it was not a shock that Trump and the GOP would launch these racist and private assaults and anticipated it to worsen because the elections draw shut.
“America has a deep historical past of assaults being on the premise of race, so it isn’t sudden,” Thomas Hollihan, a professor of communication at USC Annenberg, advised BI in July.
Representatives for Trump, Graham, and Harris didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark from Enterprise Insider despatched exterior common enterprise hours.
