GOP candidate Addul Ali infiltrates MSNBC focus group on 'mixed race voters' to trash Kamala Harris

A pro-Trump Republican candidate for congress infiltrated an MSNBC focus group of 'mixed race voters' to slam Kamala Harris.  

Addul Ali, a candidate for North Carolina's 12th Congressional district and host of a conservative podcast, appeared alongside five others in a segment with MSNBC host Morgan Radford.  

Only Ali and another woman said they were Republican. They disagreed with the others over Donald Trump's controversial remarks last month where he claimed Kamala Harris 'happened to turn black.' 

While other panelists branded the comment 'offensive', Ali countered: 'I agree with him. I didn’t know that. I didn’t know she identified as Black because everything I saw was first South Asian, first Indian. There’s none of that identified as Black.' 

Republican congressional candidate Addul Ali (bottom left) infiltrated an MSNBC focus group of 'mixed race voters' to slam Kamala Harris 

Ali, a candidate for North Carolina 's 12th Congressional district and host of a conservative podcast, distanced himself from other voters on the panel and expressed his support for Donald Trump 

MSNBC noted after the broadcast that Ali was a Republican candidate for congress, however the network did not indicate whether they knew Ali's identity beforehand. 

The network did not immediately respond to a request for comment from DailyMail.com, including if it carried out any vetting of the panelists. 

It is not the first time Ali has appeared on MSNBC, however, with his website for his podcast, The Urban Conservative, including a clip where he spoke of how 'there are a lot of people in the middle' of politics who are not represented by either Democrats or Republicans. 

'It is on us to hold these people accountable at the ballot box,' Ali said in the clip, which came before he launched his own congressional candidacy. 

Despite his ongoing campaign against Representative Alma Adams - who is given a 99 percent chance of defeating him, according to The Hill - Ali was able to seemingly slip onto the voters panel unidentified. 

Ali pictured attending last month's Republican National Convention, alongside North Carolina Speaker of the House Tim Moore 

Ali's congressional campaign is centered on traditional conservative values, including bolstering law enforcement resources, securing the border to 'stop the flow of fentanyl', and supporting veterans 'who have sacrificed and served our country'

In the panel, Radford began by asking the voters: 'Does the way that you identify racially impact your politics, or specifically, how do you plan to vote this election?' 

A Democrat voter responded: 'I’m not going to lend my support behind someone who does not support people who look like me.' 

'I don’t think he sees me as a who I am,' another said. 

But Ali distanced himself from the other panelists as he argued that Harris doesn't have 'anything vested in the "Black or Hispanic experience", so much as it would be identified by anybody that lives in those communities.' 

As the conversation turned to Trump's controversial remarks at the National Association of Black Journalists in July, Ali again disagreed with the other liberal voters. 

While one said Trump's comments were 'highly offensive' and another said he was 'tapping into' racist sentiments, Ali said he agreed with Trump's characterization. 

'I didn’t know she was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black, and now she wants to be known as Black,' he said. 

'I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?' 

On the MSNBC panel, Ali questioned whether Harris is 'Indian or Black' following controversial remarks from Donald Trump last month 

The other Republican voter then backed up Ali's remarks, saying that she heard Trump's comments on Harris' ethnicity as a jibe at 'identity politics and the appeal that some take to play up one side of their race over the other.' 

Ali and Radford subsequently went back-and-forth over whether Harris had previously described herself as black before her 2024 presidential campaign, which she had. 

'I've never heard it,' Ali concluded. 

According to Ali's congressional campaign website, he is a veteran and entrepreneur who is focusing his platform on traditional conservative values. 

This includes bolstering law enforcement resources, securing the border to 'stop the flow of fentanyl', and supporting veterans 'who have sacrificed and served our country.'