爱荷华州的竞选活动中，2020年民主党总统候选人卡玛拉哈里斯在被问及唐纳德特朗普总统是否是白人至上主义者时有一些强硬的言论。

       “让我告诉你我对这个问题的担忧，”哈里斯在答复记者时说。“它以问题开始和结束，然后是答案，而不是承认美国作为一个问题在美国的悠久历史。仇恨问题。”

       哈里斯的评论是在她在爱荷华州博览会上为得梅因登记册的政治肥皂盒舞台演讲20分钟后向新闻界发表的。

       “我作为一名检察官处理了仇恨犯罪。作为负责美国司法部第二大司法部的司法部长 - 我将每年发布仇恨犯罪报告，”加利福尼亚州参议员说。“这在美国并不新鲜。仇恨不是新的。仇恨采取种族主义，反犹太主义，同性恋恐惧症，变性恐惧症，仇视伊斯兰恐惧症在我们国家并不新鲜。”

       “我不会参与一个简化这个问题的对话而不承认一个 - 历史，说出真相并承认它发生在[特朗普]在白宫之前，并且它会继续在白宫的这个家伙之后，”哈里斯补充道。

       关于总统所谓的种族主义和支持白人至上主义者一段时间的谈话一直在持续，但当一些批评者认为特朗普未能谴责一群在2017年8月在弗吉尼亚州夏洛茨维尔举行集会的白人至上主义者时，这种情况大大增加。在集会期间，詹姆斯·亚历克斯·菲尔兹（James Alex Fields Jr.）将他的车开进了一群反对者，杀死了希瑟·海尔（Heather Heyer）并打伤了其他30人。

       本周，随着美国人在德克萨斯州埃尔帕索和俄亥俄州代顿遭遇大规模枪击事件的影响，特朗普也因为指责暴力视频游戏，电影和精神疾病而引发愤怒，但未能指责据称埃尔帕索射手帕特里克克鲁修斯。当局说，Crusius在枪击事件发布之前在网上发布了一份宣言，该文件中包含了特朗普在移民方面所使用的一些言论。

       据美联社报道，克鲁修斯向警方承认，他开车前往沃尔玛，发生枪击事件的目标是墨西哥人。然而，克鲁修斯还告诉警方，他的观点早于特朗普总统任期，任何指责总统行动的人都错了。

       哈里斯在接受记者采访时表示，毫无疑问，特朗普正在“煽动美国仇恨的火焰”。

       “但是，如果我们要进行这种对话，让我们以有意义的方式进行对话，因为当我们看到从波威[加利福尼亚]，生命之树会堂，夏洛茨维尔，到埃尔帕索发生的事情的一切 - 我们都应该进行对话，并部分照镜子说“我们在哪里，我们准备做什么？”，“她说。

       哈里斯随后指出特朗普政府决定停止为一项有助于打击国内恐怖主义的计划提供资金，并表示如果在2020年当选，她将恢复资金。

       “我几个月来一直在讨论这个问题：他们关闭了国内恐怖主义的资源。他们只是将其关闭。在资源和支持方面，并承认它是真实的，必须予以对待就像它是什么 - 国内恐怖主义，“哈里斯说。

       根据Politifact的说法，在对前总统巴拉克奥巴马任期结束时批准的31个项目暂时冻结补助金后，特朗普政府于2017年6月批准了26个项目的补助金。这些项目为期两年，白宫做了当补助金于2019年7月到期时，不要寻求续约。
 

KAMALA HARRIS SAYS SHE 'WILL NOT PARTICIPATE' IN CONVERSATION THAT REDUCES RACISM TO JUST DONALD TRUMP

       While on the campaign trail in Iowa, 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris had some strong words when asked if President Donald Trump is a white supremacist.

       "Let me tell you the concern I have with that question," Harris said in reply to a reporter. "It begins and ends with the question and then the answer to that, as opposed to recognizing the long history in the United States of this as an issue. The issue of hate."

       Harris' comments came as she spoke to press after giving a 20 minute speach on the Des Moines Register's Political Soapbox stage at the Iowa State Fair.

       "I as a prosecutor handled hate crimes. As the attorney general running the California Department of Justice - the second largest Department of Justice in the United States - I would publish hate crime reports every year," the California Senator said. "This is not new in America. Hate is not new. Hate that takes the form of racism, antisemitism, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia is not new in our country."

       "I will not participate in a conversation that simplifies this issue without recognizing one - the history, speaking the truth about it and recognizing it happened before [Trump] was in the White House and it will continue after this guy in the White House," Harris added.

       Conversations have been ongoing regarding the president's alleged racism and support of white supremacists for some time, but increased considerably when some critics felt Trump failed to condemn a group of white supremacists who conducted a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in August 2017. During the rally, James Alex Fields Jr. drove his car into a group of counterprotesters, killing Heather Heyer and injuring 30 others.

       This week, as Americans experienced the fallout of mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, Trump also generated ire for pointing blame at violent video games, movies and mental illness, but failing to blame alleged El Paso shooter Patrick Crusius. Authorities have said that Crusius posted a manifesto online just before the shooting and that the document contains some of the same rhetoric Trump has used in relation to immigrants.

       According to the Associated Press, Crusius admitted to police that he drove to the Walmart where the shooting occurred to target Mexicans. However, Crusius also told police that his views pre-date Trump's presidency and that anyone blaming the president for his actions was mistaken.

       Speaking to reporters, Harris said there is "no question" that Trump is "fanning the flames of hate in America."

       "But if we're gonna have this conversation, let's have it in a meaningful way, because when we have seen everything from what happened in Poway [California], to the Tree of Life synagogue, to Charlottesville, to what happened in El Paso — we should all be having a conversation, and partly looking in the mirror to say 'where have we been on this and what are we prepared to do?'," she said.

       Harris then pointed to the Trump administration's decision to stop providing funding for a program that helped combat domestic terrorism and said that if elected in 2020 she would restore the funding.

       "I have been talking about this for months and months which is: they shut down the resources on domestic terrorism. They just shut it down. In terms of putting resources and support into it and acknowledging that it is real and that it must be treated as what it is - domestic terrorism," Harris said.

       According to Politifact, after temporarily freezing grants for 31 projects that were approved at the end of former President Barack Obama's term, the Trump administration approved grants for 26 programs in June 2017. The programs run on two-year terms, which the White House did not seek to renew when the grants expired in July 2019.