What is Vice President Kamala Harris' ethnicity?
President Joe Biden announced earlier this month that he is no longer vying for the White House in the 2024 presidential election against the 78-year-old Republican nominee Donald Trump. He also gave Vice President Kamala Harris his full support to seek the Democratic nomination.
Harris, 59, who already made history as the nation’s first Black and South Asian woman to be elected vice president, has received endorsements from several prominent leaders, including former Democratic President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton.
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During an interview at the National Association of Black Journalists conference Wednesday, Trump falsely claimed that presumptive Democratic nominee Harris failed to pass the California bar exam. Harris has said that she did not pass the exam on her first attempt, but she later passed and was admitted to the California Bar the year after she finished law school.
He also said he questioned the authenticity to her claims about her heritage and ethnicity.
"I didn't know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black," Trump said.
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What is Vice President Kamala Harris’ nationality and ethnicity?
Harris, the former U.S. Senator from California and the state’s Attorney General, Harris, is a U.S. citizen. The daughter of an Indian mother and Jamaican father, she was born in Oakland, California on Oct. 20, 1964.
On the campaign trail, Harris has worked to appeal to Black leaders and voters through conversations at barber shops and historically Black colleges and universities. She attended Howard University, an HBCU, and was a member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, which mobilized behind her and could be spotted at rallies.