Vice Presidential nominee Kamala Harris has been targeted for everything from her laugh to her dancing over the course of one weekend.
During a campaign rally in Pennsylvania, President Trump mocked Harris’ laughter during her ‘60 Minutes’ interview, which aired on Sunday, the New York Post reports.
According to another New York Post article, Harris started laughing when asked by anchor Norah O’Donnell about whether or not she would bring a ‘socialist or progressive perspective’ to a moderate Biden administration.
“I promised Joe that I will give him that perspective and always be honest with him,” Harris said.
“It is the perspective of — of a woman who grew up — a black child in America, who was also a prosecutor, who also has a mother who arrived here at the age of 19 from India. Who also, you know, l — likes hip-hop. Like, what do you wanna know?” Harris continued.
A day later, Trump suggested there was ‘something wrong’ with Harris, New York Post reports.
“She will not be the first woman president, you can’t let that happen,” Trump said. “I said, ‘Is there something wrong with her?’ She kept laughing at very, you know, serious questions.”
In another incident, conservative columnist Peggy Noonan faced backlash for her op-ed on Harris in the Wall Street Journal, which published over the weekend, Huffington Post reports. MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace and Claire McCaskill discussed the piece’s sexism in a segment of “Deadline: White House” on Monday.
Noonan, a former speechwriter for President Ronald Reagan, criticized Harris for being ‘giddy’ and wrote, ‘apparently you’re not allowed to say these things because she’s a woman.’
“She’s dancing with drum lines and beginning rallies with ‘Wassup, Florida!’ She’s throwing her head back and laughing a loud laugh, especially when nobody said anything funny,” Noonan wrote. “She’s coming across as insubstantial, frivolous. When she started to dance in the rain onstage, in Jacksonville, Fla., to Mary J. Blige’s ‘Work That,’ it was embarrassing.”
In response, Wallace called the piece ‘tone-deaf.’
McCaskill, a MSNBC political analyst and former senator from Missouri, expressed disappointment in Noonan, whom she had admired, Huffington Post reports.
“Well, I’ll tell her what’s ‘embarrassing,” McCaskill said. “A president that pays off porn stars… A president who says he likes to grab women by the you-know-what. A president who uses the White House for campaign events. A president who praises White supremacists.”
Harris, according to ABC, is unfazed. In an interview with ABC’s The View, Harris addressed Trump’s comments and actions, including previous instances when the president and other members of his party repeatedly mispronounced her name.
“It’s so predictable coming from him. I mean it’s childish, it’s name-calling…” Harris said, ABC reports. “You know, look, the name-calling is not new to me — it’s not new to anybody who played on the playground as a child. But this is not the playground.”
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I thought Peggy Noonan’s comments were contemptuous. She sought to belittle Sen. Harris by ridiculing her dancing, which is normal behavior. President Trump dances on stage at his rallies. So; it isn’t the dancing that bothers Peggy, make no mistake it is because Sen. Harris is a biracial woman.
Embarrassing behavior is asking “If you can inject ones self with bleach, or inject a light into your body to kill Covid.” Boiling it down, Peggy’s remarks are mean, silly, and hateful. No excuse for her writing such slurs other than hostility. Let’s call it what it was racist.