'You Repeated The Slur': ABC Host Busts Byron Donalds For Racial Attacks On Harris
ABC News host George Stephanopoulos called out Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), a surrogate for Donald Trump, after he repeatedly slurred the racial identity of Vice President Kamala Harris.
During a Sunday interview on ABC's This Week, Stephanopoulos asked Donalds about Trump's attack on Harris at the National Association of Black Journalists Conference last week.
"Is former President Trump questioning the Vice President's racial identity?" Stephanopoulos wondered.
Donalds said the attack was a "phony controversy."
"But if we're going to be accurate, when Kamala Harris went into the United States Senate, it was AP that said she was the first Indian American United States Senator," the Republican lawmaker opined. "Now she's running nationally. Obviously, the campaign has shifted. You're talking much more about her father's heritage and her Black identity."
"And you just repeated the slur again," Stephanopoulos noted. "She's always identified as a Black woman. She is biracial. She has a Jamaican father, an Indian mother."
"She's always identified as both," the ABC News host added. "Why are you questioning that?"
Donalds said that he was addressing the issue because "this is something that's actually a conversation throughout social media right now."
"There are a lot of people who are trying to figure this out," he insisted.