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Posted: 2024-08-11T16:34:54Z | Updated: 2024-08-12T11:13:59Z JD Vance Believes Kamala Harris 'Is Whatever She Says She Is' About Her Racial Identity | HuffPost

JD Vance Believes Kamala Harris 'Is Whatever She Says She Is' About Her Racial Identity

However, he does agree with his running mate, Donald Trump, that she is a "chameleon."
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Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance  told CNN on Sunday  that he believes Vice President Kamala Harris is whatever she says she is in regard to her racial identity, while also agreeing with his running mate, Donald Trump , that she is a chameleon.

She pretends to be one thing in front of one audience, she pretends to be something different in front of another audience, Vance said to State of the Union co-anchor Dana Bash. Look, Dana, shes not running a political campaign, shes running a movie.

Vances remarks come after Trump said last month that Harris happened to turn Black during an appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists convention.

The Democratic presidential nominee, who is the daughter of a Jamaican father and an Indian mother, has long identified as a Black woman .

Vance also called Harris a fundamentally fake person because of her changing positions on policies like fracking, immigration and funding police, saying, She should have to answer for why she presents a different set of policies to one audience and a different set of policies to another audience.

Elsewhere, during Vances State of the Union appearance, Bash asked him about remarks he made in a 2021 interview when he referred to Harris and other Democrats as childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that theyve made, and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too.

During that interview, he also called Harris, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) people without children. Harris has stepchildren, and Buttigieg has adopted twins.

Although Vance told Bash that of course he recognizes Harris and Buttigieg as parents, he said that the vice president is part of a set of ideas that exist in American leadership that is anti-family and that she has made some bizarre statements in that regard.

She has said things like its reasonable not to have children over climate change, he said, referencing comments Harris made last year at a college tour stop, where she acknowledged the fear young people have about whether to have children as the climate crisis worsens.

I think thats the exact opposite message we should be sending to our young families ... and I think that its unfortunate that so much of our public leadership has become anti-family, Vance added.

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