Published 19:30 IST, September 8th 2019

Kamala Harris apologises for her response to remarks on Trump

Kamala Harris, US Presidential candidate apologized on twitter after receiving criticism for a video where she replies "well said" to a man thrashing Trump.

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Kamala Harris, U.S. Senator and candidate for president apologized on Friday after receiving criticism for a video where she is seen replying "well said" to a voter using offensive terms for US President Donald Trump. video of incident was circulated on social media in a few hours of Kamala Harris taking st at New Hampshire Democratic Party Convention. Harris denied actually hearing term that generated controversy on internet. 

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Kamala Harris issues an apology

Democratic Presidential candidate on Saturday apologized on twitter over incident and called it "upsetting".  She tweeted, "When my staff played video from my town hall yesterday, it was upsetting. I didn’t hear words man used at that moment, but if I h I would’ve stopped and corrected him. I’m sorry. That word and ors like it aren’t acceptable. Ever". After video went viral on social media, netizens reacted saying Kamala should t have allowed somebody to talk like that and demanded an apology. 

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What's video about?

video was taken at  New Hampshire, town hall on September 6 where person who identified himself as somebody from same hometown as Kamala's mor, Chennai in India, spoke on how he spent a lot of effort to live his 'American dream' before Trump took over as President of US. man was seen calling Donald Trump a 'racist bigot' and that Trump does t allow coloured people to stay in US and sends m back to ir own country. This man spoke in a heavy accent on how he is scared for US and people living re. He can n be seen asking 2020 Presidential candidate on how she would get rid of this "mentally retarded action of this guy". crowd over re could be heard laughing and clapping for question put up by this man. Kamala Harris too laughed and replied to man saying, "well said, well said". She n answered man saying that she would work really hard to get re and by next year Trump will be dethroned. She thanked man for having cour to stand up and also said that re are people in country who are living in a lot of fear. 

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(With inputs from ncies)

17:06 IST, September 8th 2019