Politics, 2024 Election

What Difference Does It Make?

Maria Grant asks, “Why not the best?”

John Dean
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4 min readAug 2, 2024

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Is America “Not ready” to vote for a presidential ticket consisting of two women? Or a woman and a gay man? Or a woman and a Jew? Spy Community Media writer Maria Grant dedicated her column this week to these questions. Her title says it all — what difference does it make? “It” means gender, sexual identity, religion, ethnicity — you get it.

Maria Grant’s column may be read as published here.

What Difference Does It Make?

This week Donald Trump spoke at a National Association of Black Journalists Conference and said that Kamala Harris used to be Indian and now she says she’s Black. He went on to question, “So is she Indian or is she Black?” What I want to know is what difference does it make?

Trump, a man who once claimed that Obama was not born in the United States and that he was the founder of ISIS, this week claimed that Kamala Harris does not really like…

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