Republicans Step Up Attacks on Kamala Harris

“The intensified focus on Vice President Kamala Harris as President Biden faces continued calls to withdraw from the race for the White House has made her even more of a target on the right, at times in racist and sexist ways,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Such attacks on Harris—the first female and first Black vice president, as well as the first of Indian descent—aren’t new. But Republicans have focused more on her as Democrats have weighed whether she should replace Biden at the top of the party’s ticket, offering a glimpse of the type of attacks Harris would have to contend with if she were the Democratic nominee.”

“Sebastian Gorka, a former aide to Donald Trump, recently referred to the vice president as ‘colored’ and a ‘DEI hire.’ The former president’s campaign referred to Harris as ‘Low IQ Kamala’ on social media. Some of the former president’s supporters have for years donned shirts, carried signs or sported ‘Joe And The Hoe Gotta Go’ bumper stickers.”