Jasmine Crockett Flames ‘Ignorant’ Chip Roy for Calling Kamala Harris a ‘D.E.I. Vice President’ 

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) had words for Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) after he referred to Vice President Kamala Harris as a “D.E.I.” hire.

The acronym stands for diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Harris has been in the news amid the maelstrom surrounding President Joe Biden and his reelection bid. Biden performed horribly in his first presidential debate with Donald Trump last month, raising worries about his mental fitness. Since then, the 81-year-old president has done little to quell concerns as to whether he can make the case against the former president, as he has stumbled in recent interviews.

There are reportedly efforts by some donors and perhaps Democratic officials to get Biden to step aside as the party’s candidate to make way for Harris or perhaps someone else to be chosen at the Democratic National Convention in August. On Monday, Roy told Fox Business that Harris – a former attorney general and U.S. senator from California – is vice president because of D.E.I.

“At the end of the day, I don’t think they’ll go there,” Roy said about Democrats forcing out Biden. “I don’t think they can. They’re in a box. They are in a box where they’ve got to choose between a mentally incompetent president and a D.E.I. vice president. And they know that they’re gonna be facing a problem either way.”

On Monday’s episode of The ReidOut on MSNBC, Joy Reid played the clip for Crockett and asked for her reaction.

Crockett called Roy “ignorant” and said, “You can see he wishes he had half the competency of Vice President Kamala Harris. Don’t talk to me about what a D.E.I. hire looks like because we know that you have never engaged in diversity, equity, or inclusion in your office. So we know that you don’t know anything about hiring diversity.”

Watch above via MSNBC.

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