Vance: Trump’s Racist Attacks Are “Totally Reasonable”

CNN reports:

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance on Thursday defended Donald Trump’s false comments about Kamala Harris’ racial identity, saying that it was “totally reasonable” for his ticket mate to describe the vice president as someone who “pretends to be somebody different, depending on the audience she’s talking to.” The Ohio senator’s comments came the day after Trump said that Harris “happened to turn Black” in recent years.

Vance, who is the father of three biracial children, said Trump’s comments “don’t give me pause at all.” “Look, all he said is that Kamala Harris is a chameleon,” said Vance, who was on a visit to the US-Mexico border. Vance said Harris was “raised in Canada” – she spent her teenage years in Montreal, where her mother had moved for work – and claimed the vice president used “a fake Southern accent” earlier this week while campaigning in Atlanta.

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