Far right activist and provocateur Laura Loomer again sharpened her attack on vice president Kamala Harris as she asked what Kamala Harris' religion is. "Has anyone asked her?" Laura posted on X as Kamala Harris confirmed that she would skip the AI Smith dinner scheduled for October 17. Donald Trump, however, said he will attend the dinner. Kamala Harris' team said she would be willing to attend the fundraiser as president if she's elected but on Oct 17, she will be busy campaigning.
Kamala Harris' absence will make her the second major-party candidate to decline an invitation in over six decades and the first since Walter Mondale did not attend the event in 1984.
Laura Loomer raised a storm after she attacked Kamala Harris' ethnicity and said if she wins the presidential election, the White House will smell of curry -- a jibe at Kamala Harris' Indian ethnicity. The attack did not get approval from the Republican party and Donald Trump distanced himself from Laura Loomer's vile comment. Several Republican veterans opposed Laura Loomer and said Loomer does not represent the GOP.
Loomer herself said her allegiance is not to the GOP but only to Donald Trump. The former president called Laura Loomer a private citizen, a supporter who does not work for him or for his campaign but Loomer's closeness with Trump certainly raised eyebrows.
As far as Kamala Harris' religion is concerned, Harris earlier said that as a child she was introduced to both Hinduism and Christianity and now she's married to Jewish Doug Emhoff.
“She has a unique and interesting religious identity. ... She’s been part of both mainline American Baptist churches and Hindu fellowships, and she’s married to a Jewish man,” said Nathan Finn, senior fellow on religious liberty with the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission.
A Texas-based evangelist Lance Wallnau recently accused Kamala Harris of practicing witchcraft. "She can look presidential. That’s the seduction of what I would say is witchcraft. That’s the manipulation of imagery that creates an impression contrary to the truth, but it seduces you into seeing it. So that spirit, that occult spirit, I believe is operating on her and through her," he said.