Harris tells NABJ she expects to 'earn' the Black vote this November

Vice President Harris spoke to the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) in Philadelphia on Tuesday, about a month after former President Trump spoke to the same group and made waves when he questioned Harris' race.

The event marks Harris' first solo interview with the national media. It was held at NPR's Philadelphia station, WHYY, and was moderated by three Black journalists, including Eugene Daniels of Politico Playbook, WHYY's Tonya Mosely and TheGrio's Gerren Keith Gaynor. The stop marked Harris' 13th visit to the Keystone State this year.

During his July interview with the NABJ in Chicago, Trump drummed up a firestorm of criticism when he said, "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. So, I don't know. Is she Indian or Black?"

Harris was not asked to respond to those remarks from Trump on Tuesday, but she did slam the former president for what the moderators described as racially charged rhetoric about Haitian migrants in a small Ohio town eating people's pets.

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"It's harmful, and it's hateful and grounded in some age-old stuff that we should not have the tolerance for," Harris said of the rumors being circulated by Trump. "We've got to say that you cannot be entrusted with standing behind the seal of the president of the United States of America, engaging in that hateful rhetoric that, as usual, is designed to divide us as a country."

When asked by one of the moderators if this case of "irredeemable racism" deserved some sort of federal response to help the community heal, Harris sidestepped the question.

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