By Ashlee Banks
Special to the AFRO
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and other Republican leaders have asked members of their caucus to stop launching racist and misogynistic attacks against Vice President Kamala Harris.
(Credit: AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)
On July 23, Johnson met with Republicans and said that neither Harris’ race nor her gender has anything to do with her running for president.
“This election will be about policies and not personalities,” Johnson told reporters..
This comes after Harris accepted President Biden’s nomination to replace him in the 2024 presidential race after he announced that he would withdraw from the race.
Since then, GOP Congress members have lobbed attacks against Harris in an effort to undermine her run for the Oval Office.
On July 23, U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles, (R-Tenn.) introduced articles of impeachment against Harris over the border crisis and accused her of breaching the public’s trust regarding President Joe Biden’s mental and physical health.
Ogles contended that Harris failed to evoke the 25th amendment to have Biden removed from the White House “when it became apparent that he was…incapable” of fulfilling his presidential duties.
U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, (D-Texas) condemned Ogles for the filing.
“Andy Ogles needs to focus on making sure that he can be an honorable member that people can trust and believe absolutely deserves his spot here in and stop trying to do the bidding of Trump going after the vice president,” Crockett told the AFRO.
The Texas lawmaker added that Ogles does not have a good reason to file articles of impeachment against the vice president.
“These people clearly don’t understand what the requirements for an impeachment are in the first place,” said Crockett. “But, that’s their game because they don’t have anything of substance. We have wasted so many tax dollars because they decided that they wanted to go after the president consistently on a bogus impeachment.”
This is Ogles’ second time filing articles of impeachment against Harris. He did the same last year, however, he did not garner enough support from House Republicans to bring it to the floor for a vote. House Democrats believe history will repeat itself.
After Ogles filed articles of impeachment against Harris, U.S. Rep. Tim Burchett, (R-Tenn.) called Harris a “DEI hire” in a tweet.
“The incompetency level is at an all-time high in Washington,” said Burchett. “The media propped up , lied to the American people for three years and then dumped him for our DEI vice president.”
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, (D-N.Y.) told the AFRO Republicans are threatened by the vice president and will call anyone who has “rightfully earned their place” a DEI hire.
She said this rhetoric comes from a “party of largely one gender and one identity.”
In recent days, House Democrats have reminded Republicans that Harris served as the first Black attorney general in California; she represented California in the U.S. Senate, becoming the second Black woman to serve in the upper chamber after Carol Moseley Braun; and she made history again to become the very first Black vice president.
Harris is expected to be named the Democratic presidential nominee during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in August.
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