PHILADELPHIA – Vice President Kamala Harris will take questions from three members of the National Association of Black Journalists on Tuesday, six weeks after the former president. Donald Trump questioned his ethnicity and clashed with a journalist at the organization’s national convention in Chicago.
Harris refused Invitation from NABJ to attend the August convention because Rep. Sheila Jackson, D-Texas, conflicted with Lee’s funeral.
On Tuesday at WHYY, a public radio station in downtown Philadelphia, Harris will field questions from Tonya Mosley, host of NPR’s “Clean Air” and host of the “Not the Truth” podcast; Gerren Keith Gaynor, White House correspondent and TheGrio’s managing editor for politics; and Eugene Daniels, Playbook co-author and Politico’s White House correspondent.
NABJ said PolitiFact will conduct real-time fact checks, which will be shared on social media using the hashtag #NABJFactCheck and via live streaming. NABJ website.
The event will be broadcast live NABJ’s YouTube and Facebook pages. However, it is not an official campaign event and is open only to select NABJ members and 100 students from historically Black colleges and universities.
Harris’s appearance caused less controversy than Trump’s. Some members of NABJ criticized despite inviting Trump inflammatory comments made about Black people and other ethnic groups over the years.
He attacked ABC News During the Aug. 1 event, reporter Rachel Scott called his first question — several hostile remarks he made about black people and women — “nasty.”
He later claimed he was the best president for blacks since Abraham Lincoln and questioned Harris’ legacy.
“I didn’t know he was Black until he accidentally became Black a few years ago, and now he wants to be known as Black,” Trump gasped. “So I don’t know if he’s Indian or black?”
Harris is expected to face tough questions about her position as California attorney general and vice president, and about the specifics of what her administration will do to benefit blacks.
“NABJ, as a journalistic organization, does not endorse political candidates,” NABJ President Ken Lemon said in a statement last week. “As we demonstrated during our convention interview with former President Trump, this event will not be an election campaign, but will be conducted according to the principles of journalism. The interview with Vice President Harris is intended to inform the public and allow our members to help communicate their report. We hope this event will also help provide real-time training for our budding storytellers. We’re thrilled to be able to work with Harris’ team to conduct a face-to-face interview like we did with his opponent.
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