Back in 2020, Joe Biden made it a point to pick a black woman to be his running mate. In 2024, now that Vice President Kamala Harris is running for president in her own right, MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell declared it “clearly racist” on Tuesday for Republicans to point this out.
Addressing former RNC chairman Michael Steele, Mitchell whined, “It took only a day for the Republicans to attack Vice President Harris in clearly racist terms. Republican Congressman Tim Burchett of Tennessee says the vice president is a diversity hire. I mean, here’s a former senator, attorney general of California, our largest state. Take a listen.”
Mitchell then played a clip of Burchett with CNN’s Manu Raju, where Burchett condemned Biden for excluding women of other races. After Raju asked if Harris was a DEI hire, Burchett replied, “One hundred percent. She was a DEI hire.”
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