Asked about reparations for descendants of enslaved Americans during a radio town hall with “The Breakfast Club,” Vice President Kamala Harris said Tuesday that the issue “has to be studied.”

And then the Democrats’ 2024 presidential nominee offered a word salad of boilerplate and ephemera. She talked about growing up in a middle-class family, the importance of acknowledging the “context of history” when righting past economic inequities, and the “critically important” need to see black men “as whole human beings” who happen to be not just sons but also fathers, uncles, and grandparents.

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“Two other things,” Harris continued, “and then I’ll keep going.” Replied Lenard McKelvey, the radio host better known as Charlamagne tha God, “You’re going to keep going?” She laughed, “You caught that!” He acquiesced to what he called her “filibuster.”

Meanwhile, during an interview at the Economic Club of Chicago, Donald Trump was asked about the world reserve currency. The former president replied bluntly that any nation that considered dropping the dollar would incur a “100% tariff.”

And then the Republicans’ 2024 presidential nominee subsequently bounced from topic to topic in a routine he now describes as “the weave.” He switched from first to third person while talking about how some “love Trump’s policies” but dislike the “crass” messenger, described South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham as “a progressive in all fairness,” and began a story about economic negotiations with France.

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