Florida Dem. likens calling Vice President Kamala Harris a 'DEI hire' to using the n-word

A Florida Congressman has slammed his Tennessee Republican counterpart for calling Kamala Harris a 'DEI hire' - saying he mightiness arsenic good person utilized nan N-word. 

Maxwell Frost, 27, erupted successful fury aft Representative Tim Burchett insisting on CNN that nan vice president was not nan Democratic campaigner based connected merit.

'They want to telephone her a DEI president, aliases a DEI candidate. She has much acquisition than Trump and J.D. Vance combined, times a million, right?' he told CNN's Jim Acosta Tuesday. 

'She worked astatine nan authorities level, she was nan lawyer general, she was vice president, she was a legislator representing 1 of nan largest states successful nan full country.

'And truthful these are conscionable racist canine whistles. Whenever you perceive DEI, I want you to deliberation astir nan N-word. I want you to deliberation astir group slurs. That's what they really mean,' he concluded. 

Burchett insisted Biden 'just skipped over' achromatic female co-candidate options before calling Harris, 59, mediocre. 

'What astir immoderate different group? Just erstwhile you spell down that route, you return mediocrity.

'And that's what they person correct now arsenic a vice president,' nan Tennessee Republican told nan outlet. '100 percent. She was a DEI hire.'

'Her grounds is abysmal astatine best,' nan 59-year-old politician, who is up for reelection successful Tennessee's 2nd District, said. 

He besides nan Secret Service director, who has since stepped down pursuing nan attempted assassination of Trump, a 'DEI scary show.' 

'Ma'am, you are a DEI scary story,' Burchett told Kimberly Cheatle during a Capitol Hill proceeding connected Monday. 

Marjorie Taylor Green, of Georgia, besides precocious made comments regarding Harris' gender and tegument color.

She said: 'She wasn't chosen because she was genuinely highly classed amongst Democratic voters passim nan country. She was chosen for a reason.

'And it seems to beryllium that her, unfortunately, her gender and possibly her tegument colour was portion of that,' she told Fox News Digital.  

Frost said nan Republican helping would going to a 'racist' and 'misogynistic' way to discredit Harris, who is group to go nan 2024 Democratic nominee aft President Joe Biden dropped retired of nan race. 

But nan Gen-Z leader isn't worried excessively much, arsenic he says he knows Harris is 'qualified' for nan domiciled and continued to take sides her. 

He responded to a tweet that accused respective number authorities labor - including Harris, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, and Frost himself - of each being DEI hires. 

'Just opportunity you dislike Black people. Takes little typing,' Frost responded to nan database that named much than 11 authorities employees. 

A Fox Business impermanent made a shocking activity slur astir Harris connected July 21, calling her nan 'original Hawk Tuah girl.' 

'Kamala Harris, she is nan original Hawk Tuah woman - that's nan measurement she sewage wherever she is, and nan statement is going downhill if it's successful her hands,' Podcaster Alec Lace said.  

The provocative right-winger was comparing nan Democrat to Hailey Welch, who changeable to viral fame aft she described spitting arsenic portion of a intersexual act during an on-street interview.

Lace's inflammatory remark prompted Fox big Dagen McDowell to reply with, 'That was harsh.' 

Lace past took to X to reside his words astir nan VP, writing: 'Did I spell excessively acold on FOX News calling -Kamala Harris nan OG Hawk Tuah woman aliases americium I correct complete nan target?'

As Harris embarks connected her ain statesmanlike campaign, Republican statesmanlike campaigner Trump has already attacked her complete her romance pinch erstwhile San Francisco politician and notorious playboy, Willie Brown, 90, who is 31 years Harris's elder and dated her successful nan 1990s.

In his July 4th message, Trump wrote: 'Respects to our perchance caller Democrat Challenger, Laffin' Kamala Harris.

'She did poorly successful nan Democrat Nominating process, starting retired astatine Number Two, and ending up defeated and dropping out, moreover earlier getting to Iowa, but that doesn't mean she's not a 'highly talented' politician. Just inquire her Mentor, nan Great Willie Brown of San Francisco.'

Throughout her career, nan vice president has been many times forced to contradict that her narration pinch Brown was nan defining measurement successful her governmental career. 

The fling fizzled decades ago, but successful nan years since, Harris has struggled to shirk her relation pinch Brown, whom she later described arsenic 'an albatross hanging astir my neck.'