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Kamala Harris' campaign team has resurfaced controversial comments made by the U.S. Senate candidate from Minnesota, Royce White, who endorsed Donald Trump's re-election.
A post on X, formerly Twitter, on August 27, showed a clip from a 2023 interview between White and former Donald Trump advisor Steve Bannon, in which White referred to women as being "too mouthy."
"Look, let's just be frank. Women have become too mouthy. As the Black man in the room, I'll say that," said White in response to Bannon's comments about women's view on men.
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Although it's not the first time these comments have circulated online, Harris campaign's post went viral, receiving almost 900,000 views in under 24 hours, as well as hundreds of retweets. Some users suggested White's endorsement of Trump could cause him more harm than good.
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White defended his words in May after the video resurfaced for the first time. He shared a clip from the ABC talk show The View in which guest Ana Navarro joked about straight men being "useless" as the other panelists laughed.
"Let me get this right... I can't say women have gotten mouthy, humorously, but several women can get together laughing and joking that the only 'useful' men are gay men?" White wrote in the post.
The Harris campaign resurfaced the interview following comments White made on August 26, slamming fellow Republicans for targeting "suburban women" as their voting pool.
"Any one of you Republicans out there who thinks suburban women are gonna be the path to victory ... I don't know what to say about you. Just go caucus with the Democrats. We don't have time to play around with you people. You're living in a — you're living in a delusion," said White during his podcast Please Call Me Crazy.
White, who was a professional basketball player before turning to politics, has been accused of antisemitism as well as misogyny, most notably by the Republican Jewish Coalition which endorsed his primary challenger Joe Fraser.
The BBC reported that White has been an advocate for mental health in professional sports after he started suffering from anxiety which ultimately led to him ending his professional basketball career. He also helped organize protests after the death of George Floyd in 2020, although he said they were not part of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Royce White transitioned into politics after his basketball career. In 2022, White ran for public office as a Republican candidate in Minnesota's 5th Congressional District, which he lost. He's now running for senate against Democratic incumbent Amy Klobuchar.
Steve Bannon is currently in prison, serving a four-month sentence after he was convicted of refusing to comply with a subpoena to testify in front of the January 6 House Select Committee that investigated the riot at the U.S. Capitol.
Newsweek has reached out to Royce White's press office for a comment.
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