September 15, 2024

“I make a mean chicken curry,” Republican vice-presidential candidate J.D. Vance told a NBC News reporter today.  Vance was asked about a post on X/Twitter that the White House would smell of curry if Democrat Kamala Harris is elected president. Vance’s wife, Usha Vance, is Indian, with her parents being immigrants from Andhra Pradesh, India.

This was the post on X by Laura Loomer last week: “If @KamalaHarris wins, the White House will smell like curry.” Loomer added, apparently referring to customer service operations outsourced to India by American companies, that “White House speeches will be facilitated via a call center and the American people will only be able to convey their feedback through a customer satisfaction survey at the end of the call that nobody will understand.”

Loomer was responding to Vice President Harris’s post on X that, “As a young girl visiting my grandparents in (Chennai, Tamil Nadu,) India, my grandfather took me on his morning walks, where he would discuss the importance of fighting for equality and fighting corruption. He was a retired civil servant who had been part of the movement to win India’s independence. My grandmother traveled across India—bullhorn in hand—to speak with women about accessing birth control.”

The post by Harris, the Democratic candidate for U.S. President, has gotten 4.2 million views. Some Tamilians, like Harris’s grandparents, are vegetarians.

Loomer’s post has gotten 6.5 million views. She describes herself on X as an “Investigative journalist” and “Free Spirit.” She worked as an activist for Project Veritas and Alex Jones's Infowars. Loomer, 31 years old, was born in Arizona. In 2020, she ran, with Trump’s support, as a Republican candidate for the US House of Representatives from a seat in Florida. She lost to Democrat Lois Frankel. In 2022, she unsuccessfully tried to unseat Representative Daniel Webster in a Republican primary in a different Florida Congressional district.

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