Tatishe Nteta, provost professor of political science and director of the UMass Poll, comments on former president Donald Trump’s statements about Vice President Kamala Harris’s race and how the growing multiracial population in the U.S. may impact politics. “You’re seeing the development of what this (multiracial) identity is, both politically and culturally,” he says. “If you can speak to, or at least help define, who and what they are and what they support, you have the potential to mobilize them into your coalition. Where they lie in the political continuum may determine elections going forward.”