It's not surprising that Trump would try to exploit Harris' background for personal gain given that he is running the most racially-charged presidential campaign America has seen since the 1968 run of former Alabama Gov. George Wallace, writes Maeve Reston
President Donald Trump once again drove the dignity of the American presidency into the ditch this week by raising a false and racist conspiracy theory about Kamala Harris, elevating the efforts of the alt-right to portray her as"other" because of her mixed-race heritage.
It was not surprising that Trump would try to exploit Harris' background for personal gain given that he is running the most racially-charged presidential campaign that America has seen since the 1968 run of former Alabama Gov. George Wallace.After all, he elevated his own stature from the realm of a New York gadfly to the mainstream of American politics by trafficking lies about the eligibility of President Barack Obama, who was the nation's first Black president.
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