GA-SEN: Perdue mocks Harris's name before Trump rally: 'Kamala-mala-mala, I don't know'

[RandySF]

Democrats are calling on Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) to apologize after he mocked Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Kamala Harris’s (D-Calif.) name, accusing the Georgia lawmaker of sounding a racist dog whistle.

While speaking in Macon, Ga., of the “insidious” plans Democrats have in store should they take power in Washington, Perdue rattled off several lawmakers, including Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (N.Y.), Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), before moving to Harris, calling her “Kah-mah-la or Kah-ma-la or Kamala-mala-mala, I don’t know, whatever.”

Democrats seized on the remark, pointing out that Perdue was mocking the name of a Black and Asian woman and the first woman of color to be on a major party’s national ticket. Some also noted that Perdue and Harris have served in the Senate for three years, suggesting people who work together for that long often know each other’s names.

“My opponent, GOP Sen. David Perdue of anti-Semitic attack ad infamy, just mocked Sen. Harris' name as ‘Kamala-mala-mala-whatever’ at a Trump rally. We are so much better than this,” tweeted Democrat Jon Ossoff, who is running against Perdue in an increasingly competitive Senate race.



https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/521509-georgia-senator-mocks-harriss-name-before-trump-rally-kamala-mala-mala-i

[no_hypocrisy]

1. If that's the best he's got, then we're good.

[Beartracks]

2. That's so grade-school. Par for the course for Republicans. n/t

[LisaL]

3. Considering that Trump is their idol, I guess they think it's cool to act as a

middle school bully.

[Retrograde]

4. That's how they pronounce it

in Uzbeki-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan

Where does the GOP get these idiotic, blatant racists from?

[Awsi Dooger]

5. Twitter suspended me for comparing it to George Allen's macaca moment

I specifically used the term "macaca moment" to refer to that incident, and not use of the word itself.

I don't get this stuff. I prefer my Las Vegas years, where all references were understood immediately