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Kamala Harris is not new to politics, nor the public scrutiny that comes with it. Harris is also certainly not new to attacks. She has weathered it all throughout her career as California’s attorney general, the state’s senator and the vice president of the United States ― the whole time reminding the public of how to pronounce her Indian first name.
Harris has long clarified to the public that her name is to be pronounced “comma-la, like the punctuation mark.” During her 2016 run for Senate,As detailed in Slate earlier this weekwho mentioned the vice president by first name at the Republican National Convention earlier this month had mispronounced it, saying either “Kuh-MA-luh,” “Camel-uh” or “Camilla.” The CEO of Goya Foods even mocked her name as “Que-mala,” which means “how bad” in Spanish.
“Trump’s attacks to delegitimize people of color aren’t new ― he led the birther charge, right ― and what it shows you more than anything, is that Trump and his movement know that the vice president is a tested, proven leader,” a Harris spokesperson told HuffPost., a linguistic term originating from the Bible that in English is defined as almost a slogan or catchword identifying someone with a community or ideology.
“I live in California. If I say ‘pop’ when I go out and I run into another Midwesterner, immediately we have solidarity,” said Holliday, who is originally from Ohio. “So it goes the other way too. If you’re a Republican, or let’s say an independent but leaning Republican, and you say, ‘Kuh-MA-luh,’ then everybody knows … either you’re not really for her, or you’re not consuming the media where people bother to say her name, right?”“If you're a Republican ...
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