Donald Trump is proving he’s racist and stupid with his latest post.

In a Truth Social post Thursday morning, Donald Trump appeared to suggest, again, that presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris isn’t really Black, ramping up his identity-based attacks to the horror of those in his party who consider racism a losing electoral strategy.

Earlier in the week, many GOP strategists, including in the Trump camp, worried that attacks on Harris’s race and gender—which seemed all but inevitable considering Trump’s history of racism and misogyny—would pose a serious liability for the campaign. “We hope he doesn’t act like a crazy racist and sexist person, but we can’t control him,” a source close to the campaign told The Washington Post.

These hopes were quickly dashed in the course of Trump’s interview with the National Association of Black Journalists Wednesday afternoon, in which the candidate claimed that, for years, Vice President Kamala Harris “was Indian all the way, and then suddenly she made a turn and she became a Black person.”

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    3 months ago

    That is a legitimate thing to say when both sides are promoting a bill to shut down the border, hunt down immigrants in the country more efficiently, and hold more of them in camps.

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      3 months ago

      Did not Biden search for and find hundreds of separated migrant children, separated under the Trump presidency, and reunite them with their families? That would be something of note that is different between the parties.

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          3 months ago

          Have you read the footnotes 1 and 2 in your link? Its hard to judge the data when it appears theres also a major change in source data right when the presidency changed.