Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) pushed back against ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos when pressed on why former President Donald Trump has questioned Vice President Kamala Harris’s ethnicity, contending he has put a heavier focus on her record as a lawmaker.

The question Donalds was responding to was in reference to Trump’s appearance at the National Association of Black Journalists’ annual conference this past week, during which Trump questioned why Harris had been identifying as black when “she was always of Indian heritage.” The Florida congressman argued that Trump made this comment when responding to a question from ABC’s Rachel Scott, and called the discussion over his remarks “a phony controversy” that most voters ultimately do not care about.