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‘Now that you’re done yelling at me’: Byron Donalds silences Stephanopoulos tantrum on Kamala’s racial identity

August 4, 2024 | | Print Article

Florida Rep. Byron Donalds (R) was having none of the corporate media’s narrative as he made ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos face the source of a supposed “slur” aimed at the vice president.

“George, now that you’re done yelling at me, let me answer.”

With less than 100 days to go before Election Day, the Biden-Harris administration’s foreign policies leading to increased tensions in the Middle East and a congressional recess underway, the Democratic Party’s media allies appeared determined to avoid confronting presumptive nominee Vice President Kamala Harris’ record.

Instead, an effort to accuse former President Donald Trump of using a “slur” against Harris saw Stephanopoulos completely ignore concerns about the potential of World War III to reiterate his projection that it was the GOP leader who seemed focused on the vice president’s race.

“Why is former President Trump questioning the vice president’s racial identity?” asked the “This Week” host of Donalds moments before the congressman would put him in his place, “George, now that you’re done yelling at me, let me answer.”

The lawmaker pointed out that Trump had been responding to a question posed of him during his recent appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists convention before calling it a “phony controversy” and pointing out that it was the Associated Press that had dubbed Harris the first Indian senator when she was elected.

Noting that whether the vice president aligned more with her black or Indian heritage didn’t matter, Donalds tore into how her policies were crushing American families with inflation, had exacerbated the crisis at the southern border and that “she and Joe Biden have unleashed one of the worst foreign policies in the history of our country that has us on the verge of World War III. That is Kamala Harris’ record.”

Out of that, Stephanopoulos chose to continue his focus on Harris identity and asserted, “You just repeated the slur again. If it doesn’t matter, why do you all keep questioning her identity? She’s always identified as a black woman. She’s biracial.”

Acknowledging that it was something people were talking about on social media, Donalds reiterated, “That’s a side issue, not the main issue. The main issue is-”

Stephanopoulous proceeded to rail over the congressman accusing him of questioning Harris’ identity again prompting the lawmaker to push back over the interruption. “George, now that you’re done yelling at me, let me answer. [Trump] talked about it on the stage yesterday in Atlanta for what, two minutes? He spent more than 35-40 minutes going after her record, talking about how radical of a senator that she was. She was the most liberal senator in the..United States Senate. That is a fact.”

“He talked about the job that she did as vice president of the United States; a job I will add which has been a failure for the American people,” he continued. “I know you guys like to glom on to this that he talked about in jest or in a serious manner for about a minute or so, but what you do not cover is the litany of failures of Kamala Harris. That’s what you’re not covering, George.”

As the host harped on the social identity, the congressman reminded again that it was the AP behind the headline referenced during a Trump rally, “We can have this conversation for the entire segment, but none of this matters to the American people. What matters to the American people is, are we gonna have the same policies of the Biden-Harris administration that has been destructive of the American people, or are we gonna have the policies of the Trump administration which put America first, had low inflation, prosperous Americans no matter your race, no matter your color, no matter your creed, and a foreign policy that kept America safe?”

“Those are the facts that truly matter because this issue is gonna come and go. The lives of the American people is what’s going to remain, and that’s what matters more than anything else,” added Donalds.

Sounding every bit like an elementary school kid crying out, “I know you are but what am I,” Stephanopoulos responded, “If it doesn’t matter, I don’t understand why you keep on repeating it; why the president keeps on repeating it why those introducing the president yesterday keep on repeating it,” before continuing to avoid voter concerns by bringing up January 6.

As a reminder, the ABC News host was currently facing a legal dispute with the former president as Trump had filed a defamation suit against the talking head after Stephanopoulos had repeatedly argued that the GOP leader had been found “liable for rape.”

That reality was among the digs handed out to the anchor as social media users reacted to the exchange.

Kevin Haggerty
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