Kamala Harris becomes US Vice-President-elect: A look at oft-repeated misconceptions about the Democrat leader

Kamala Harris throughout a speech after changing into the US Vice-President-elect. AP

Kamala Harris, the US’ Vice-President-elect, has needed to cope with a considerable amount of misinformation after she was nominated by the Democrats to vie for the submit. These vary from problems with her citizenship and heritage, to far-right conspiracy theories.

Listed below are a few of the factors on which there’s typically misinformation surrounding the Democrat chief.

Citizenship

After Harris turned the Vice-President-elect within the US, search phrases resembling ‘Kamala Harris is Indian’ started trending in India. Whereas the intent of those searches in some circumstances could also be to search out out extra about her household heritage moderately than citizenship, you will need to level out that Harris was born within the US, and is a citizen of that nation.

She was born in Oakland, California to a Jamaican father and an Indian mom.

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Outgoing US president Donald Trump had additionally earlier stoked questions on Harris’ citizenship and her eligibility to run for public workplace. As famous by Hindustan Occasions, some fringe conservatives had argued that whereas she was born within the US, her mother and father weren’t naturalised residents of America on the time.

Responding to the controversy, Trump was reported to have mentioned, “I heard it immediately that she (Harris) doesn’t meet the necessities, and by the best way, the lawyer who wrote the piece is extremely certified, very gifted.”

Nevertheless, the truth that Harris was born in the US makes her a pure citizen of the nation.

Heritage

Deceptive claims on social media have additionally urged that till accepting the vice-presidential nomination, Harris had not recognized as a black American girl.

Nevertheless, she has at all times been clear about her twin heritage.

As talked about by the BBC, she wrote in her autobiography: “My mom understood very nicely that she was elevating two black daughters…She knew that her adopted homeland would see Maya [her sister] and me as black ladies, and he or she was decided to ensure we might develop into assured, proud black ladies.”

‘Pizzagate’ conspiracy concept

‘Pizzagate’ is a conspiracy concept which means that Hillary Clinton and Democratic elites ran a baby sex-trafficking ring by a Washington pizza restaurant. This concept claims that Harris is concerned within the alleged racket as her sister was invited by Clinton’s presidential marketing campaign supervisor to a ‘Hillary pizza occasion’ in 2016.

Nevertheless, the declare about such a concept is baseless and there’s no proof to again it up, as famous by The New York Occasions.