“Her ethnicity and her gender have nothing to do with this whatsoever,” Johnson said at a press conference on Tuesday. Gretchen Whitmer, Harris and three other Black women, after vowing during the campaign to pick a woman as his vice president. That pledge was separate from his vow to specifically appoint a Black woman to the Supreme Court, which he later did. Advertisement“Of course it’s not appropriate, for heaven’s sakes,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) told HuffPost about the “DEI hire” attack. Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), who is one of only four Black senators in the upper chamber, also slammed the GOP attacks on Harris.

Source: Huffington Post July 24, 2024 03:01 UTC