Trump questions if Harris really black

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania — US Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump suggested on Wednesday that his Democratic rival, Vice-President Kamala Harris, had decided to "turn black" for political gain during a combative interaction with African American journalists in Chicago.

The inflammatory comments marked an escalation of Trump's vitriol against Harris, whom he falsely accused of having identified as Indian but then, "all of a sudden, she made a turn, and she became a black person".

Harris, 59, has long identified as black and graduated from a historically black university.