Trump’s ‘is she Black?’ attack and Harris’s VP front-runners

In an interview with panelists at the National Association of Black Journalists conference in Chicago, former president Donald Trump questioned Vice President Harris’s racial identity, saying she only recently started calling herself Black. Also, the leader of Project 2025, the controversial right-wing policy group, is stepping down. And the Harris campaign has hit some major fundraising goals and is expected to announce her running mate any day now.

Co-host Martine Powers talks with reporters Issac Arnsdorf, who covers Trump, and Tyler Pager, who covers the White House, about what to make of it all.

Today’s show was produced by Laura Benshoff. It was edited by Lucy Perkins and Mary Jo Murphy and mixed by Rennie Svirnovskiy. Thanks also to Ali Bianco.

[NiccaGeorge]

It wasnt an attack. It was what every person not drinking the cult water was wondering. Shes been only indian forever but now that she wants the black vote, even though she has been disaserous for them.

[grumpypumpkin]

She is whatever she feels she needs to be for votes. What a clown.

[Jme_CA]

As a CA native, and having worked for a Democrat councilmember in Los Angeles, I was familiar with VP Harris' career....I assumed she was Indian solely because she repeatedly identified as such. I recall when she became attorney general in CA, then "the first Southeast Asian" is all we ever heard - no one thought anything of it. It is a head scratcher for those of us who know about her career to suddenly hear the label of "Black". Is it a big deal? Well, not entirely....I guess. But it does seem politically motivated to suddenly identify as Black.

[griseobarba]

Sounds like a legitimate question. I would like to know. Instead of calling someone racist, why doesn't she prove to everyone she is black American. Seems like she's not the only democrat to make a claim to be a certain race and i think that turned out to be a lie. We all could claim to be of African descent from what our DNA tests show.

[Travelingforlife]

Multiple videos out that she herself says she is S. Indian!!!

[ajvonline]

8400+ views... 132 thumbs up. Gaslighters.

[kevinjenner]

He continues to make a complete Trump out of himself.

[tonyl]

Sounds like Kendrick dissing Drake again.

[shishkabobby]

Sneakercon is an example of being bold enough to go out to meet new voters? From the newspaper that brought us Watergate?

[NovicePCBuilder]

Typical WaPo...focus on whatever Trump says, but not questioning anything Kamala says.

[shishkabobby]

Why "Harris's" rather than "Harris'"?

[BlueJazzBoyNZ]

Don old ..
Isn't it weird you are chicken to
Debate Kamala
or is JD Vance telling you no..

[aimeedouglas]

She is not black. Period. But I guess these days it’s perfectly ok to pretend to be whatever the hell you want to be.

[luzmontalvo]

She is a “camaleón “…. changes COLORS accordiny, 😆 😝 😂

[JamesCalabrese]

Vote Harris-Trump is too old and nobody wanted either him or Biden
Now we have a choice

[zamorast]

I was gonna vote for Kamala, but she said she's Indian so she's not black.