Donald Trump accuses Kamala Harris of using his racial identity to win votes in the US elections in November. The Republican candidate and former US president has held a meeting with African-American journalists, wondering if his rival for returning to the White House is “Indian or if she is black“.

“Is she Indian or is she black? She was Indian and all of a sudden she made a change and became a black person“, he criticized from Chicago. Trump also answered the question of how he was going to receive the votes of the black population when he called them “rabbits” or “losers.”

“What happens to you is that you work for a ‘fake news’ network, a horrible network. I have been The best president for the black community since Abraham Lincoln“That’s my answer,” he said.

The tense interview was moderated by black journalists Rachel Scott from ABC; Kadia Gobafrom Semafor, and Harris Faulknerfrom Fox News. Trump ended up calling the first two “very rude” and “disgusting” in an exchange in which the journalists insisted on getting answers from the former president.

Harris spent most of her childhood with her mother, but attended Howard University, a predominantly black university. The White House immediately called her “repulsive” and “insulting“Trump’s comment. “No one has the right to tell her (Harris) who she is or how she identifies,” said government spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre, an African-American.

In the interview, Trump also distanced himself from his vice presidential candidate, JD Vance, for criticising the country being run by single women and people without children. “He is a very family-oriented person (…) I know people without families who are very good and in many cases better. Not having a family doesn’t mean there’s something wrong with you“the former president said. Vance has criticized Harris for not having children and has downplayed the fact that she is a stepmother to her husband Doug Emhoff’s children.

“Old show”

Hours later Harris did not hesitate to call the Republican candidate’s attacks “divisive and disrespectful.” Trump has mounted “the same old show” of “division and disrespect,” the Democrat said at an event of a historically black fraternity that took place in the city of Houston, in the state of Texas, according to the newspaper ‘The New York Times’.

“Let me say: the American people deserve better,” the US vice president added to cheers and applause from the audience. “When we get organized, the mountains move“When we organize, nations change. And when we vote, we make history,” he said during his speech.

Harris’ meeting took place at a time when Trump, her Republican rival and former US president (2017-2021), returned to Pennsylvania for the first time since the assassination attempt on him on July 13.