To hear Republican senators tell it, Donald Trump was simply being Donald Trump when he questioned Vice President Kamala Harris’ race on Wednesday, claiming she only recently “happened to turn Black.”
“Oh, well, you know he’s not serious,” Sen. Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming said, brushing it off. “You know he’s not serious.”
But Trump has only doubled down since then, repeatedly emphasizing that Harris’ mother was of Indian heritage. And even though her father is from Jamaica, it all seems difficult for him to understand.