Kamala Harris has been vice president for more than four years.
Washington:
The White House on Thursday described as “disgusting” the growing sexist and racist attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris, which intensified after she became the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee.
“I think it’s desperate. I think it’s disgusting and I think it’s a dog whistle. We must not forget that she is the vice president of the United States. She should receive that respect. She has been doing this work with the president for almost four years,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters at her daily press briefing.
“She is a former senator and has been a key partner in restarting the economy and ensuring we deal with the pandemic. And to hear that is, frankly, disgusting,” Jean-Pierre said when asked about the rise of racist and sexist attacks against Harris, who is of Indian and African descent.
It escalated to such a level that House Speaker Mike Johnson had to ask his Republican lawmakers to prevent such an attack.
“When you have the speaker of the House, obviously he is a Republican, and this is something that you all have reported, set up a meeting to tell the Republican leaders to stop being racist, to stop being misogynistic, to stop being sexist, I think it says a lot that they need to be told not to do that,” Jean-Pierre said.
According to Politico, “House Republican leaders told lawmakers to focus on criticizing Vice President Kamala Harris’ record without reference to her race and gender, following caustic comments from some Republicans who attacked her based on her identity ”. At an election rally in North Carolina, former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said that Vice President Harris is “unfit to govern” and described her as a “radical left lunatic”.
“For three and a half years, Lyin Kamala Harris has been the ultraliberal driving force behind every Biden catastrophe. She is a radical left-wing lunatic who will destroy our country if she ever gets the opportunity to take office. We’re not going to let that happen,” Trump said on Wednesday, as he unleashed a torrent of attacks against her.
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