Trump ally calls GOP attack on Harris’s racial identity a ‘phony controversy’

Florida representative Byron Donalds spars with ABC host over Republicans' questioning of vice-president's heritage

Donald Trump ally Byron Donalds and ABC host George Stephanopoulos sparred on Sunday over Republicans' attack line questioning Kamala Harris's racial identity.

During an interview on ABC's This Week, the Republican Florida representative called the issue a phony controversy" and said I don't really care." He then proceeded to double down on the issues - which the former president brought up earlier this week at the NABJ conference - by saying: When Kamala Harris went into the United States Senate, it was AP that said she was the first Indian American United States senator ... Now she's running nationally, obviously the campaign has shifted. They're talking much more about her father's heritage and her Black identity."