Ex-president appears to defend earlier call for death penalty and struggles to account for comments on vice-presidentDuring the presidential debate on Tuesday, Donald Trump appeared to defend his decades-old calls for the reinstatement of the death penalty after five Black and Latino teenagers known as the Central Park Five were wrongfully convicted of rape in New York.When moderators asked the former president and Kamala Harris to speak on the topic of race in America, Trump struggled to account for his previous remarks questioning Harris’s racial identity – and to deal with his fraught history on the subject.Fact-checking the presidential debateTrump rambles falsely about immigrants in debateTaylor Swift endorses Harris in post signed ‘childless cat lady’‘Maga mad libs’: How the debate played out on social mediaPresidential poll tracker Continue reading…
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Author : Alice Herman
Publish date : 2024-09-11 04:12:07
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Trump fumbles debate question about Harris’s race and revisits Central Park Five
