The former speaker said calling Harris a diversity hire was 'petty' and underestimated the vice president's credentials.
Former Speaker Kevin McCarthy has criticized some of his fellow Republicans for labeling Kamala Harris as a 'DEI vice president', an attack he said is 'stupid and dumb.'In an interview with NBC News on Tuesday, the former speaker said the DEI label—which suggests Joe Biden chose Harris as his running mate because of her ethnicity or gender rather than because of her governing ability— were 'petty' and underestimated the vice president's credentials.
The criticism is likely founded on Biden's 2020 promise that he would pick a woman to be his running mate. However, after being chosen as Biden's running mate, she got the job of vice president not through diversity hiring practices but by being elected for that office by American voters.When she was elected, she became the first woman vice president and the first nonwhite vice president in the history of the United States.Harris was a district attorney, an attorney general, and a U.S.
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