Rep. Ayanna Pressley: Trump Is ‘an Existential Threat to Every Person that Calls This Country Home’

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PHANG: “Turn black? It’s, it’s offensive and I guess the question for you I have is this, Trump ran on the Obama birth or conspiracy, some people running with that when it came to wanting to ascribe to that type of racist concept as well, does this work, l, though? It’s red meat for the Republican Party but when he does something like this, how does this not totally alienate not only minorities, not just blacks by the way, let’s be clear, minorities, as well as women?”

PRESSLEY: “But predictable. It’s a play from a tired handbook but they are desperate. Kamala Harris has been a woman of color her entire life, these racist tropes and sexist tropes , that’s not a new experience for her, and so, we are going to keep doing what we need to do to build this broad and diverse coalition to ensure that we are successful in November. Donald Trump, just like Kamala Harris has always been a woman s of color, he’s always been a bigot and a racist, discriminating against black tenants as a landlord, I could go on, he is an essential threat to every person that calls this country home and ll that is why project 2025 is so frightening because it is institutionalized Trump-ism and it speaks to what would happen with another Trump White House and a weaponized department of—“