Republican Rep. Nancy Mace has sparked backlash after repeatedly mispronouncing Vice President Kamala Harris‘ name during an appearance on CNN.
“I will say Kamala’s name any way that I want to,” the congresswoman said after she was called out by other panelists on CNN’s NewsNight Thursday.
Social media users were quick to blast Mace, with some accusing her of being racist towards Harris, the first Black woman and person of South Asian descent to serve as vice president and the Democratic nominee for president.
“Nancy Mace is a garbage human being,” Alex Cole wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
Mace “refuses to pronounce her name correctly and gets torched for it. Then she throws in that VP Harris doesn’t know what a …