Presumptive Democratic vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris reported U.S. President Donald Trump and his marketing campaign will “interact in lies” and “deception” just after he floated a new conspiracy very last week about her eligibility to provide as vice president and president.

“They are going to have interaction in an endeavor to distract from the authentic challenges that are impacting the American individuals. And I count on that they will engage in filthy practices. And this is going to be a knockdown, drag-out. And we are all set,” Harris explained to media outlet TheGrio in an interview released Sunday, when asked how Trump endorsing birther conspiracies signals the tactics his campaign will use.

It is her second job interview considering that previous Vice President Joe Biden chosen her as his managing mate. If elected, Harris would be the very first Black and South Asian American vice president.

On Saturday, Trump, who has pushed identical conspiracies about former President Barack Obama, claimed that he would not be “pursuing” inquiries about Harris’ eligibility, but did not dismiss the conspiracy theories as fake.

“I know almost nothing about it, but it is really not anything that bothers me,” the President claimed throughout a news meeting at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club. “I just will not know about it but it’s not one thing we will be pursuing.”

Trump on Thursday would not definitively say whether Harris achieved the demands to provide as president or vice president, indicating he listened to on “social media” that Harris could be ineligible. Harris was born in Oakland, California, earning her eligible to be vice president.

“I listened to nowadays that she will not satisfy the necessities,” Trump reported, referring to John Eastman, the attorney and Chapman University professor who lifted the challenge in a Newsweek op-ed, as “pretty extremely experienced.” Just one Saturday, Trump identified as him a “amazing attorney.”

Eastman gained resounding criticism and accusations of racism just after his op-ed questioned her eligibility since she was born to Jamaican and Indian immigrant moms and dads — despite the truth that she’s a pure born citizen.

Newsweek editors have due to the fact apologized, producing, “This op-Ed is staying utilized by some as a resource to perpetuate racism and xenophobia. We apologize.” They said they are keeping it online for transparency.

Harris is no stranger to accusations about her race. In the course of the Democratic presidential main, Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., retweeted then deleted a critic who stated, “Kamala Harris is *not* an American Black. She is fifty percent Indian and 50 percent Jamaica.” Harris’ marketing campaign slammed the fake attacks at the time, expressing the exact same techniques were used from Obama.

“It failed to get the job done then and it won’t do the job now,” Harris’ campaign communications director instructed CNN in June 2019.

In a March 2019 job interview with The Breakfast Club, Harris was questioned about very similar attacks. “So I was born in Oakland, and lifted in the United States other than for the years that I was in significant faculty in Montreal, Canada,” Harris responded with a giggle. “And glance, this is the similar matter they did to Barack (Obama). This is not new to us and so I consider that we know what they are attempting to do.”

Talking to TheGrio in an job interview taped Saturday, Harris stated, “I’m extremely apparent-eyed about the fact that they are likely to engage, as you explained, in what they have finished all through his administration, which is, let’s just be pretty candid and clear-cut: They’re heading to interact in lies. They are going to interact in deception.”

“Almost nothing that we have ever accomplished that has been about development has arrive with no a combat,” she afterwards included.

Harris also defended her legal justice document in the similar interview, when requested if she understands the criticism that’s been levied from her. Throughout her presidential operate, advocates and progressive activists questioned her prosecutorial file, which includes her final decision to enchantment a federal judge’s ruling, which she called “flawed,” that the state’s implementation of the dying penalty was unconstitutional. She was the state’s initially Black lady legal professional typical at the time. It became a flashpoint in the 2nd Democratic major discussion.

“There are some who just say, ‘Look, but you were prosecutor, period.’ And the inference there or the assumption there is, I was portion of the process that harmed the communities, the local community from which I arrive,” Harris informed TheGrio. “And I think that we require to seriously distinguish that level from the aircraft of we cannot only be on the exterior of these devices that we will need to change. It also demands that we go within.”

Harris included that she is proud of the get the job done she attained.