Here we go with the racist birtherism crap about Kamala Harris already

| 10:50 pm EDT August 12, 2020
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It’s been clear for months that there was a strong chance Joe Biden would pick Kamala Harris as his running mate, meaning Team Trump has had a long time to come with a plan of attack against her. Over the past thirty hours we’ve seen Trump and his allies push scattered, incoherent, and conflicting narratives about Harris, suggesting they have no idea how to attack her effectively.

When the Republicans aren’t sure how to attack someone, they usually resort to pure histrionics. They couldn’t figure out how to attack Barack Obama in 2008, so they tried simultaneously pushing the false claim that he was secretly born in Kenya, thus making him “too Black” in the eyes of white suburban voters, while also pushing the notion that he “wasn’t Black enough” because of his multiethnic background. That narrative worked so poorly for Republicans, Obama was elected twice.

Nonetheless, we’re now seeing Republicans trotting out the same set of conflicting and histrionic narratives about Kamala Harris. For instance, Newsweek inexplicably published an article from a conservative professor who is insisting that Kamala may not be constitutionally eligible to be President because her parents weren’t U.S. citizens at the time she was born. Nevermind that she was born in Oakland, and therefore is very clearly a natural born citizen, as defined by the 14th Amendment.

At the same time, some of Trump’s other loyalists are trying to make the argument that because Kamala Harris is of Jamaican ethnicity, that means she isn’t “African-American.” Of course this stands in total ignorance of Jamaica’s history, and it’s just a bizarre argument for Republicans to be trying to make. Do Trump’s goons really think they’re going to convince Black voters that Kamala isn’t really Black, at the same time they’re arguing that she’s too much of a “foreigner” to even be a natural born citizen? The arguments coming out of Team Trump are as repulsive as they are ineffective. These are people of no character and no clue. They have no idea how to put a dent in Kamala Harris.

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