Biden named Harris, a woman of color who was born in the United States and is constitutionally eligible to be both vice president and president, as his running mate on Tuesday. She quickly faced attacks that Democrats deemed racist.
“I heard it today that she doesn’t meet the requirements,” Trump said Thursday, citing an article by a conservative law professor that questioned the immigration status of Harris’s parents at the time of her birth.
“So it’s unsurprising, but no less abhorrent, that as Trump makes a fool of himself straining to distract the American people from the horrific toll of his failed coronavirus response that his campaign and their allies would resort to wretched, demonstrably false lies in their pathetic desperation.”The conservative professor’s article cited by Trump followed claims shared thousands of times on Facebook that Harris could not become president because her parents hailed from abroad.
Article 2 of the US Constitution states that “no person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States” shall be eligible for the presidency. Section 2 of the 14th Amendment says “all persons born or naturalized in the United States” are US citizens.Since then, Trump has faced accusations of racism, and has embraced other conspiracies.Receive Alerts on:
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