Vice President Kamala Harris took a shot at Rep. Byron Donalds' (R-FL) comments on the Jim Crow era.
The Florida Republican, who's considered a potential running mate for Donald Trump, has come under criticism for claiming last week that "the Black family was together" and tended to vote for conservatives during the era of racial segregation, and Harris criticized the lawmaker and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in one fell swoop during an interview with Politico.
“It’s sadly yet another example of somebody out of Florida trying to erase or rewrite our true history,” Harris said. “I went to Florida last July to call out what they were trying to do to replace our history with lies, and apparently there’s a never-ending flow of that coming out of that state.”
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Florida adopted a history curriculum that teaches students that "slaves developed skills" that could be used for "their personal benefit," which Karris called out just last week as "propaganda."
“They want to replace history with lies,” Harris said Friday during a visit to Jacksonville. “They insult us in an attempt to gaslight us, and we will not have it.”
The vice president also reaffirmed the Biden administration's commitment to ensuring abortion rights in the face of Republican efforts to restrict health care options in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade.
“Everyone on that list has supported a Trump abortion ban in their state or has called for a national ban," Harris said. "In fact, many voted this week in the Senate against the right to contraception. That’s how far down the road they are."