Republican Vice Presidential Candidate JD Vancetold CNN on Sunday that he believes the vice president Kamala Harris “is everything she says she is” regarding her racial identity, while also agreeing with her running mate, donald trumpthat 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 told the “State of the Union” co-anchor. Dana Bash. “Look, Dana, she’s not running a political campaign, she’s making a movie.”
Vance’s comments came 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 candidate, daughter of a Jamaican father and an Indian mother, has long identified as a black woman.
Vance also called Harris a “fundamentally false person” because of her changing positions on policies like fracking, immigration and funding police, saying, “She should have to answer why she presents a different set of policies to an audience and a different set of policies. different from policies for another audience.”
Elsewhere, during Vance’s “State of the Union” appearance, Bash asked him about comments he made in a 2021 interview when he referred to Harris and other Democrats as “childless hot women who are unhappy with their own lives and the choices they’ve 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 (DN.Y.) “childless people.” Harris has stepchildren and Buttigieg adopted twins.
While Vance told Bash that “of course” he recognizes Harris and Buttigieg as parents, he said the vice president is “part of a set of ideas that exist in American leadership that are anti-family” and that she has made some “bizarre statements” in this regard.
“She said things like it’s reasonable not to have children because of climate change,” he said, referencing comments Harris made last year at a college tour stop, where she acknowledged the fears young people have about having children as the climate crisis worsens.
“I think that’s exactly the opposite message we should be sending to our young families… and I think it’s unfortunate that much of our public leadership has become anti-family,” Vance added.
