Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) criticized former President Trump’s comments questioning Harris’ mixed-race ancestry, saying “we need to condemn this type of bigotry and ignorance.”
“There were people who said the same thing about me,” Frost added, referring to his own primary campaign.
“I’m not black because my mother is Cuban, or I’m not Latino because I’m black,” he said. Post to X.
Thursday Trump Authentic Social Posts He shared a photo of Harris on a family vacation in India, which was first shared during the 2020 presidential election and several months after Harris was announced as President Biden’s running mate.
“Thank you Kamala for the beautiful photos you sent me all those years ago! I am so grateful for your warmth, friendship and love for our Indian traditions,” he posted.
The post doubled down on comments Trump made the previous day during an interview at the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) convention, in which he said the Democratic front-runner had “always been of Indian descent” but then “just happened to become black.”
Harris is the first Black and South Asian woman to hold the second-highest office in the U.S. She was born in California, but her late mother was born in India and her father was from Jamaica.
Frost has previously spoken about growing up in a multiracial home: He was adopted at birth by a Cuban-American woman and a white man from Kansas, and his biological parents were a Lebanese-Puerto Rican woman and a Haitian man.
He previously defended Harris after Republicans claimed she was a “DEI hire,” saying it was a cover for a racist slur and one of the “racist dog whistles” being used against her.
“Every time you hear the word DEI, I want you to think about the N-word. I want you to think about racist words, what that actually means,” Frost told CNN in a July interview.
