Politico reports:
Trump’s remarks came on a day that in many ways marked the beginning of the final sprint of the campaign — with Harris in Houston on the brink of choosing a running mate and Vance deployed at a rally in Glendale, Arizona. And they featured echoes of his 2016 run for office, with some allies like Laura Loomer circulating Harris’ birth certificate on X — a callback to the birtherism that marked his first campaign.
Harris, speaking in Texas as Trump was finishing his remarks, didn’t take the bait. She dismissed Trump’s remarks as “divisiveness,” “disrespect” and “the same old show” as she spoke to a gathering of the Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority in Houston. “The American people deserve better. The American people deserve a leader who tells the truth, a leader who does not respond with hostility and anger when confronted with the facts,” Harris told the historically African American sorority.
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“The American people deserve better,” VP Harris says of former President Trump’s comments at the National Association of Black Journalists. “The American people deserve a leader who tells the truth … who does not respond with hostility and anger when confronted with the facts.” pic.twitter.com/6x8vt9nJd5
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