Following the joint CNN interview with Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN) on Thursday evening with Dana Bash, an MSNBC panel of mixed-race voters gave their thoughts about Harris' performance and her qualifications to be president of the United States. One female voter unloaded on the Democratic presidential candidate, explaining to host Morgan Radford that she wants to see more from Harris than giggling and "girl moments."
"Do you feel some kinship towards her as a mixed person?" Radford asked the panel.
"Not personally. I find a lot of her trajectory not be my brand of woman leader. We got three major international crises going on and somebody applying to be Commander-in-Chief," the North Carolina voter, Lamarie Austin-Stripling, said. "As a woman, I want to see you do more than appeal to giggling and having a 'girl moment' on the stage."
Another panel member, North Carolina GOP congressional candidate Addul Ali, explained that he believes that Harris may try to appeal to the black community, but her appeals are disingenuous because she lacks a vested interest in the community. "I just don't think Kamala Harris has anything vested in the 'black or Hispanic experience' in so much as it would be identified by anybody that lives in those communities," he said. "Going to Howard doesn't make you black."
The MSNBC host then turned the panel's attention to recent comments President Trump made during a black journalists convention last month in which he questioned whether she was using her identity selectively to get ahead in first California and then in national politics. In response to Trump's comments, Ali said that he agreed with Trump. "I didn't know she identified as black because everything I saw was first south Asian, first Indian. None of that identified as black," Ali said, adding that he's never heard Harris identifying herself as black.
While the pro-Trump voters on the panel were critical of Harris, one Democrat voter on the panel explained that he was happy to see that Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) had an Indian wife and mixed-race children, even though they disagreed with him. "I don't agree with anything JD Vance has to say. Almost nothing, but I think it's incredible that we've gotten to a point where the vice president of the United States can have a wife named Usha Chilukuri and a son named Vivek," one of the Democrat voters, Lenden Meier, said. "That doesn't mean that I won't vote against him in November."
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Kamala just got DRAGGED 🔥
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) August 30, 2024
“Do you feel some kinship towards her, as a mixed person?”
“Not personally. I find a lot of her trajectory not be my brand of woman. We got 3 major international crises going on…I want to see you do more than giggling & having a ‘girl moment’” pic.twitter.com/wNCBvKGXQw
“I just don't think that Kamala Harris has anything vested in the 'Black or Hispanic experience’”
— johnny maga (@_johnnymaga) August 30, 2024
“You don’t think she can help brown people?”
“Nah. Going to Howard don’t make you Black”
LMAO pic.twitter.com/iAN7uFN92b
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