Byron Donalds spars with ABC host over questions about Harris’ racial identity

Rep. Byron Donalds told ABC host George Stephanopoulos it didn’t matter that Republican nominee Donald Trump challenged Vice President Kamala Harris’ racial identity even as he repeatedly veered into that territory himself.

In a contentious interview on ABC’s “This Week,” the Florida Republican went back and forth with Stephanopoulos over Trump’s remarks in recent days, with the two interrupting and scolding each other multiple times.

“This is really a phony controversy,” Donalds said. “I don’t really care, most people don’t, but if we’re going to be accurate, when Kamala Harris went into the United States Senate, it was AP that said she was the Indian-American United States senator. It was actually played up a lot,” citing the Associated Press.