First Chamber member Kamala Harris hit back at the theory of conspiracy in an interview on Sunday, and slammed the Trump campaign for engaging in “dirty tactics.”
Harris was asked during an interview with The Grio about the conspiracy theory that claimed she was unfit to serve as vice president because her parents were born outside the United States.
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Harris is a citizen of the United States born in 1964 in California, which makes her eligible to serve as Vice President under the United States Constitution.
The president was criticized last week for not rejecting the theory altogether, and instead, when asked, replied, “I heard today that she does not meet the requirements,” before adding: I have not idea if that’s right. “
When asked for comment on Sunday, Harris said: “Look, I’m very clear about the fact that, as you said, they’re going to take part in what they’ve done in the whole administration, that’s right, let’s just be very clear be honest and straightforward, they will engage in lies, they will engage in deception, they will intervene in an attempt to distract from the real problems affecting the American people. ‘
“I expect them to engage in dirty tactics and this will be a knockdown drag out,” Harris said. ‘And we are ready. And we are ready. ”
“There’s so much at stake in this election and I’m ready to fight because this is a fight for something, not against something,” she said. ‘This is a fight for where we should be. And as you have heard me say many times, I am very, very clear that we need to concentrate on what can be dismissed by what has been. “
She added: “But as we also know, nothing, nothing that we have ever achieved that has been about progress, came without a fight.”
Harris’ remarks come after a law professor at Chapman’s University, John C. Eastman, wrote for Newsweek earlier after she was named to the Democratic ticket by asking if Harris was a “natural-born citizen,” because her mother was born in India and her father was born in Jamaica.
Newsweek has apologized for the incident, saying the op-ed “is being used by some as a tool to combat racism and xenophobia. We apologize, “Newsweek said Friday in an editorial. “We did not succeed at all in anticipating the ways in which the essay would be interpreted, disturbed and armed.”
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Meanwhile, Joe Biden’s presidential campaign condemned the president over the remarks, referring to Trump’s involvement in the past and heightening false claims that former president Barack Obama may not have been born in the United States.
“Donald Trump was the national leader of the grotesque, racist birthing movement with respect to President Obama and has tried to burn racism and bring our nation apart on every day of his presidency,” Bide director Andrew Bates told Fox News in a statement. ‘So it is not surprising, but no less appalling, that if Trump makes a fool of himself to punish the American people for distracting the terrible toll of his failed coronavirus response that his campaign and its allies would be touching, demonstrable false lies in their pathetic despair. “
But on Sunday, Trump campaign senior adviser Steve Cortes on “Fox News Sunday” defended the president, saying “this is not a problem we will pursue.”
Referring to remarks made by the president at a press conference on Saturday, Cortes said: ‘He said this is not something we will pursue. He never brought this up. The campaign never brought this up. Members of the media have asked him to try to create a controversy that simply does not exist. ‘
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“What he says is that we have not made an issue of this, we will not make a problem of it,” Cortes said. “It’s a nonstarter from our point of view for the president and the campaign.”
Fox Papp’s Alex Pappas contributed to this report.
