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    Jackie Calmes: Republican racism has finally weaponized Kamala Harris

    Republicans are doing their damnedest to make Vice President Kamala Harris a liability for President Joe Biden's reelection, not without plenty of help from her over time. But as they keep doing stupid stuff underscoring their racial insensitivity — the latest being Florida's and Gov. Ron DeSantis' claim of a silver lining to slavery — Republicans have handed Harris an apt role: The Democrats' ...
    by Jackie Calmes, Los Angeles Times Jul 28, 2023 3 minutes
    Vice President Kamala Harris speaks before U.S. President Joe Biden signs a proclamation to establish the Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley National Monument in Illinois and Mississippi during an event in the Indian Treaty Room of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building at the White House in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday, July 25, 2023.

    Republicans are doing their damnedest to make Vice President Kamala Harris a liability for President Joe Biden's reelection, not without plenty of help from her over time.

    But as they keep doing stupid stuff underscoring their racial insensitivity — the latest being Florida's and Gov. Ron DeSantis' claim of a silver lining to slavery — Republicans have handed Harris an apt role: The Democrats' weapon for calling them on their callousness, and for shoring up the Democratic base while she's at it.

    Harris — the first

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