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Soon after Kamala Harris’ debate-defining moment when she recounted being bused to school as a little girl, CNN reported that a swarm of Twitter accounts, many anonymous, began spreading disinformation about the senator’s race.
Donald Trump Jr. amplified those attacks when, on June 27, he shared a tweet sent by one user with the assertion, “Kamala Harris is *not* an American Black. She is half Indian and half Jamaican.”
Officials with Harris’ campaign later condemned the response.
“This is the same type of racist attack his father used to attack Barack Obama,” Lily Adams, the campaign communications director for Harris, told CNN. “It didn’t work then and it won’t work now.”
In spite of the blowback from alt-right Twitter, a FiveThirtyEight and Morning Consult poll conducted before and after the two nights of debates showed Harris rising from 7.9 percent to 16.6 percent and Joe Biden falling from 41.5 percent to 31.5 percent. The post-debate poll still had Biden, who was in the Bay Area for private fundraisers last weekend, leading the field. But Harris had vaulted over Sen. Elizabeth Warren into third place and was less than a percentage point behind Sen. Bernie Sanders.
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