Lindsey Graham warns Trump to stop birther-like attacks on Harris’s heritage

Lindsey Graham has warned Donald Trump against devolving into birtherism-like attacks against Kamala Harris during the 2024 race for the White House.

The South Carolina senator appeared on Fox News Sunday on August asthe Trump campaign continues to search for an effective message to run against Harris after she became the formal Democratic nominee.

Graham made the remarks after Trump broached the issue of Harris’s racial background during an interview at a conference hosted by the National Association of Black Journalists this week. In front of the largely Black audience, Trump insisted that Harris had only recently decided to identify as Black — drawing groans from the crowd.

“[H]ere’s what I would say to President Trump. The problem I have with Kamala Harris is not her heritage; it is her judgment,” Graham said on Sunday. “Every day we’re talking about her heritage and not her terrible, dangerous liberal record throughout her entire political life is a good day for her and a bad day for us. So I would encourage President Trump to prosecute the case against Kamala Harris’s bad judgment.”

Graham added, addressing Trump: “This is your election to lose. It’s important to win.”

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But Trump’s campaign has doubled-down on that message since his interview at the journalist event went viral. Last week, images were shownat his rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania of news headlines noting Harris’s Indian-American ancestry (through her mother; her father is Jamaican).

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