Kamala Harris said in an interview published Tuesday that she believes Trump is a racist, offering one of the most blunt assessments of the president from the 2020 Democratic field
.by The Root's Terrell Starr if she believes Trump to be a racist, the California senator responded directly: “I do. Yes. Yes.”Harris' comments were more stark than some of her fellow Democratic presidential hopefuls.earlier this month when asked the same question, saying, "I don't know the heart of anybody. I leave that to the Lord."
In the interview published Tuesday, Harris cited Trump's past comments defending both sides during the white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017 and his rhetoric on U.S. immigration.Sign up for POLITICO Playbook and get the latest news, every morning — in your inbox.By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time.
“You can be elected, but if you actually are a leader then you don’t condone and support and counsel hate," Harris said. "You call bigotry what it is. You call racism what it is.” “When you talk about his statement on [Charlottesville], when you talk about him calling African countries s-hole countries, when you talk about him referring to immigrants as rapists and murderers, I don’t think you can reach any other conclusion,” Harris said.
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