CNN‘s Chris Wallace Bluntly Asks Top Dem What’s The Bigger ‘Obstacle’ For Kamala Harris — ‘Her Race Or Her Gender?’
CNN anchor Chris Wallace bluntly asked Maryland Governor Wes Moore (D) whether Vice President Kamala Harris’s race or gender is the “bigger” obstacle to her success during the latest episode of Wallace’s Max series, Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace.
The interview — and Wallace’s stark question — comes just days before Harris will face off against former President Donald Trump in the high-stakes presidential election.
In one exchange, Wallace referenced race — over which Trump has attacked Harris — and the gender issue, which has been raised by former President Barack Obama:
WALLACE: Which do you think is a bigger obstacle to Kamala Harris being the next President of the United States? Her race, or her gender?
MOORE: Ah I don’t think you can separate, separate that, because I think, you know, we have a two headed problem in the United States that racism and sexism both still very much exists inside this country. And we know the bar continues to be higher for her. When you’re seeing the type of campaign and type of antics that Donald Trump is running that people seem to not care about. And so I think you’re dealing with the kind of this, this two headed monster of racism and sexism um and…
WALLACE: But let me just if I may ask you about that, because Barack Obama came out and somewhat controversially scolded young black men and basically said, “I know you’re having trouble voting for a woman.” He was, in effect, saying, “you’re going to vote against a black woman because she’s a woman.”
MOORE: I think that the thing that for a lot of black men, they want to understand and feel that we’re being spoken to and that’s spoken with and not spoken at. But one thing we’ve seen here is that in the vice president, it’s the first time you’ve got a major presidential candidate actually put together an opportunity agenda specifically for Black men. That’s never happened in the history of American politics, that someone specifically is looking at Black men and say, I see you and hear the policies that I’m building for you. The only time people are talking about African Americans, oftentimes it’s in this efficiency posture, like how we need to be fixed. We don’t need to be fixed. We need to be heard. And that’s exactly what the Vice President is doing in this election. And I think that’s why it matters.
Watch above via Max’s Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace.
