MSNBC’s Alex Wagner interviewed Black voters in Philadelphia who were in favor of former President Donald Trump. Some of them even supported his questioning of Vice President Kamala Harris’s race.
In a special election episode in Pennsylvania, Wagner engaged in a conversation with Democratic and Republican voters.
She also met with members of the Black Republican Club of Philadelphia to discuss why Harris is not garnering the same level of enthusiasm from Black voters as other Democrats in previous elections.
“Do you think it matters that she’s a woman and people aren’t comfortable have a woman in a top leadership role?” Wagner said.
“No, I don’t think that because most men, they love their mothers, they love their wives, so as a woman, most men, they respect the woman, but she just doesn’t have the qualification or the education to really run America,” a voter said in response.
Dr. Alfie Goodwin, a voter, expressed her concerns regarding Harris’s tenure as a prosecutor prior to his election as a senator and subsequent vice president.
“For me, the very first time I ever heard the name Kamala Harris, it was in association to locking up parents for truancy. That was the first time I ever heard of her name, and I really didn’t understand how this person claims to be a Black woman, but yet she’s locking up Black women and Black men and separating families,” she said.
Wagner then also brought up the issue of Trump’s previous comments raising questions about whether Harris was really ‘black’ or not.
Harris’s mother is of Indian descent, while her father is of Jamaican descent.
“Absolutely. When she was sworn into the Senate, it was as the first Indian American,” Dr. Goodwin said in response to Trump’s comments.
“We all know she’s not Black, let’s understand that. We are all clear on that.” another voter concluded.
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