Harris gets grilled on 60 Minutes for alienating millions and millions of voters by calling Trump racist

Vice President Kamala Harris got grilled in a tense “60 Minutes” interview Monday night for alienating “millions and millions” of US voters by calling former President Donald Trump a “racist.”CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker took Harris to task for portraying Trump as “racist and divisive.”“You have accused Donald Trump of using racist tropes when it comes to Haitian immigrants in Springfield, Ohio, when it comes to birtherism, when it comes to Charlottesville.In fact, you have called him a racist and divisive,” Whitaker said.“Yet Donald Trump has the support of millions and millions of Americans.

How do you explain that?” “I am glad you’re pointing these comments out that he has made, that have resulted in a response by most reasonable people to say, ‘It’s just wrong.It’s just wrong,'” Harris, 59, began.But Whitaker pressed, “With so many people supporting Donald Trump — a man you have called a racist — how do you bridge that seemingly unbridgeable gap?”Instead of answering, Harris dodged.

“I believe that the people of America want a leader who’s not tryin’ to divide us and demean,” she said.“I believe that the American people recognize that the true measure of the strength of a leader is not based on who you beat down, it’s based on who you lift up.”As recently as Sept.

10, when Trump and Harris duked it out at the ABC News-hosted debate, the Democratic candidate mischaracterized Trump’s comments, saying it was “a tragedy that we have someone who wants to be president who has consistently over the course of his career attempted to use race to divide the American people.”“Let’s remember Charlottesville, where there was a mob of people carrying tiki torches, spewing antisemitic hate, and what did the president then at the time say? There were fine people on each side,” she added.The erroneous claim that Trump called neo-Nazis “very fine people” at the Unite the Right rally in Charlotte...