Trump is making his 2024 campaign about Harris' race, whether Republicans want him to or not

Donald Trump’s rhetoric this week and his record on race indicate that divisive attacks on race may emerge as a core GOP argument before Election Day. Democrats and some Republicans expressed outrage this week at the former president’s derisive and false charge that Vice President Kamala Harris, who is of Jamaican and Indian heritage, only recently “turned Black” for political gain. But Trump has found tremendous success from the very first moment he stepped onto the presidential stage by stoking racial animus. He doubted whether Barack Obama, the nation’s first Black president, was born in the United States and has often criticized opponents in racist or racially demeaning terms.