ABC’s George Stephanopoulos known as out Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) for claiming that race doesn’t matter then utilizing racial slurs in opposition to Vice President Harris.
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George Stephanopoulos doesn’t put up with Rep. Byron Donalds utilizing racial slurs in opposition to Kamala Harris, “Why do you, why do you insist on questioning her racial identification?”
Donalds: You need me to speak?
Stephanopoulos: I need you to reply my query pic.twitter.com/VT3s1HkxCa— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) August 4, 2024
Transcript by way of ABC’s This Week:
STEPHANOPOULOS: And also you – and also you simply repeated the slur once more. If it doesn’t matter, why do you all preserve questioning her identification? She’s all the time recognized as a black girl. She is biracial. She has a Jamaican father and an Indian mom. She’s all the time recognized as each. Why are you questioning that?
DONALDS: Effectively, George, initially, that is one thing that’s truly a dialog all through social media proper now. There have been lots of people who had been attempting to determine this out. However once more, that’s a aspect problem, not the primary problem. The primary problem that’s (INAUDIBLE) – Kamala Harris is the vice chairman of america.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Sir, one second. So, you simply did it – you simply did it once more.
DONALDS: George, (INAUDIBLE) for what (INAUDIBLE) –
STEPHANOPOULOS: Why – why do you – why do you insist on questioning her racial identification?
DONALDS: You wish to discuss or would you like me to speak?
STEPHANOPOULOS: I – I need you to reply my query.
DONALDS: OK, you don’t yelling at – George – George, now that you just’re accomplished yelling at me, let me reply.
He talked about it on the stage yesterday in Atlanta for, what, two minutes? He spent greater than 35, 40 minutes going after her report, speaking about how radical of a senator that she was. She was probably the most liberal senator in america – in america Senate. That may be a truth. He talked concerning the job that she did as vice chairman of america. A job, I’ll add, which has been a failure for the American individuals. I do know you guys prefer to glom on to this, that he talks about in jest or in a severe method for a few minute or so. What you don’t cowl is the litany of failures of Kamala Harris. That’s what you’re not protecting, George.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So, query – so questioning any person’s racial identification for a few minutes is OK?
DONALDS: George, I’m going to inform you once more, he introduced it up. AP is the one which wrote the headline when she first got here into america Senate. Didn’t discuss her being black. Talked about her being the primary Indian American senator. AP introduced that up.
I imply, George, we may have this dialog for the whole phase, however none of this issues to the American individuals. What issues to the American individuals is, are we going to have the identical insurance policies of the Biden-Harris administration that has been harmful of the American individuals? Or are we going to have the insurance policies of the Trump administration which put America first, had low inflation, affluent People irrespective of your race, irrespective of your coloration, irrespective of your creed, and a international coverage that stored America protected?
These are the details that actually matter as a result of this problem goes to return and go, the lives of the American individuals is what’s going to stay and that’s what issues greater than anything.
STEPHANOPOULOS: If it doesn’t matter, I don’t perceive why you retain on repeating it, why the president retains on repeating it, why these introducing the president yesterday carry on repeating it.
Republicans are utilizing a part of the identical technique that they used in opposition to Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 in opposition to Kamala Harris in 2024. The technique is to assert to decrease the slur whereas repeating it again and again.
Instances have modified and hosts like George Stephanopoulos will not be going to show a blind eye to what Republicans are doing.
Donalds was clearly trying to smear Harris, and his assault was by design. The Trump marketing campaign is utilizing Donalds to attempt to decelerate the Harris surge with black voters.
Republicans must be attempting to win the election on points not slurs, and George Stephanopoulos did the proper factor by calling out what Donalds was doing.
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Member of the Society of Skilled Journalists and The American Political Science Affiliation
