July 21, 2024 US President Joe Biden declaredthat is removed from the election of the head of state, and Offered As a new candidate from the Democratic Party, Vice President Kamal Harris. Soon, videos with the participation of a politician allegedly testifying to its incompetence, as well as allegations of some details of its biography, spread over the network. Some speakers are at all insist: according to the laws of the United States, Harris cannot participate in the presidential election. We checked five such statements.
Is it true that Harris does not have the right to run for the presidency?
On the night of July 23, Telegram channel "RT in Russian"(205,000 views at the time of writing this analysis) said that Harris could not participate in the election of the US president, since her father and mother were born outside the United States. The authors refer to an interview with the ex-officer of the US Army Scott Bennett. “None of her parents were an American ... This is a very real obstacle-the probability of establishing that, according to the US Constitution, she cannot be president: vice president-please, but there is no president,” Bennett said.
Harris is really a descendant of immigrants. Her mother, biologist Shyamala Gopalan, born in India, and father, economist Donald Jasper Harris- on Jamaica. They met in California, where they came to study at the university. There, in 1964, in the city of Auckland near the couple Born Daughter Kamal.
In the US Constitution It is said:
“Not a single person, with the exception of a birth citizen or the United States citizen at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, has the right to occupy the position of president; Also, not a single person has the right to occupy this position if it has not reached the age of 35 and did not live in the United States for 14 years. ”
14th amendment to the US Constitution, adopted in 1866, guarantees:
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States and falling under their jurisdiction are citizens of the United States and the States in which they live.”
Experts from the School of Law of Cornell University Explainthat there are two rare exceptions from this law: children who are born in the country of diplomats from other states, as well as among the “foreigners-doctors during the occupation”, are not becoming citizens of the United States. Harris does not fall under any of these conditions.
The allegations that the politician cannot be elected to the highest government posts, since its parents were immigrants for the first time spread in 2020-then Harris first intended to run for the presidency, and then agreed to become the Vice President in the Biden administration. In August 2020, more than 40 lawyers from leading US universities Published An open letter in which Harris was confirmed to be elected to the post of head of state.
Is the video true in which Harris says: “I am a woman sitting at a table in a blue suit”?
On July 22, the day after Bayden’s exit from the presidential race, a video on which Harris says: “My name is Kamala Harris began to spread in Telegram channels. My pronouns are “she” and “her”. I am a woman sitting at a table in a blue suit. ” Bloggers who shared the video accompanied His comments like “Well, the world and the nuclear button are transferred to reliable hands”, “Decent replacement” or “and if I wear Kandibber On the head, this does not mean that I am a woman or ballerina. "
Similar posts placed Telegram channels "Skabeeva"(79,000 views),"The goat screamed"(72 000) and"Tucker Carlson for Russia"(49,000), users Facebook, Livejournal And X.
The video is widespread in the English -language segment of the Internet. So, the owner of the social network x ilon mask Retwitted The post with this video added: “Imagine four years of this ...” The publication collected more than 156 million views.
Video with similar comments was distributed in the summer of 2022 - so, the publication SVTV News It wrotethat "the vice-president of the United States and the Great Oratory met with fighters for the rights of disabled people." “The United States was lucky to have a president who speaks nonsense because of dementia, and vice president who does this by vocation,” the author of the note commented on that video.
July 26, 2022 Harris really participated in a round table with the defenders of the rights of the disabled, which took place on the occasion of the 32nd anniversary of the adoption Law on people with disabilities (ADA). Transcript Politics speeches are published on the White House website, and Video broadcast -On the YouTube channel of the US Presidential Administration. Judging by these sources, Harris really said: “My name is Kamala Harris. My pronouns are “she” and “her”. I am a woman sitting at a table in a blue suit. ”
Similar visual Self -description - A common practice when communicating with interlocutors with visual impairments. Typically, the speaker briefly describes how he looks and what he is dressed in, if desired, adding details, which, in his opinion, can be important for the blind and visually impaired participants in the meeting. Some people with visual impairments (for example, the blind employee of the American association of people with disabilities Jasmine Bailey) They thinkthat visual self -description helps to make the event more inclusive. Chris Danielsen, a PR director of the American National Federation of the Blind, shares this point of view: “Vice President Harris sought to be more inclusive. And we completely respect her intention. ” However, this practice has and Opponents, which They believethat a verbal description is necessary only in the theater, cinema and on television, and at business meetings, excess time is spent on this. In any case, in the context of a round table with the participation of blind and visually impaired people, which Harris performed, such self -description was appropriate. Other speakers at that event Made The same at the beginning of his performances.
Harris included the pronouns “She/Her” in her greeting, probably two reasons. Firstly, so blind and visually impaired interlocutors got the opportunity to avoid awkward situations in communicating with vice president, whose gender could be unknown to him. Secondly, the name of preferred pronouns when communicating with strangers is another inclusive practice promoted by the President Biden's administration. In 2021, the White House added to Feedback form The ability to indicate the pronouns that should use the author of the response letter. Users could choose the options “She/Her”, “He/His”, “They/their” or “Other”, enter their own option or refuse to fill out the corresponding field for personal reasons.
Thus, the video distributed in July 2024, designed to discredit Harris, was shot two years earlier at a round table with the participation of blind and visually impaired. The US Vice President, apparently, sought to comply with the principles of inclusiveness and the recommended practices of communication with people with disabilities.
Is it true that Harris had an affair with the married mayor of San Francisco?
Soon after Baiden, the media and social networks, the media and users of social networks reported that his vice president and the probable new candidate from the Democratic Party in the 1990s met with the mayor of San Francisco Willy Brown, who was married at that time. Some The Russian media not only questioned Harris's ethics, but also saw in her novel with Brown the desire to advance up the career ladder. Similar notes were released, for example, “Komsomolskaya Truth","Tsargrad" And Men Today. This was also reported by the authors Telegram channels, users of social networks (""VKontakte" X) And Platform blog.
In 1994, about rumors about the novel between 30-year-old Harris and 60-year-old Brown wrote a newspaper The Los Angeles Times - Just in connection with the career growth of a young lawyer. At that time she occupied The post of deputy prosecutor of the Alameda district (California), Brown appointed Harris to the Unemployment Council of Unemployment Insurance in California and the medical care commission. Already in 1995, judging by messages California media, the couple broke up. The mayor of San Francisco Brown became Only a year later, before that, a decade and a half was the speaker of the lower house of the state parliament.
This relationship was not a mystery, does not hide the connection and Brown: in 2019 he Published In the publication of San Francisco Chronicle, a column called “Of course, I met with Kamala Harris. And what?" According to the politician, he wrote an article after Harris announced his intention to participate in the 2020 presidential election, and the journalists bombarded him with calls. Brown noted that he was in relations with Harris more than 20 years ago and, although he really influenced her career, helped some other democrats.
As for the statements that Harris met with a married man, back in 1984, The New York Times newspaper Reported: Two years earlier, Brown lovely parted with his wife Blanche Vitero after 25 years of marriage. In the biography of the California policy on the website of the magazine PEOPLE In 1996, it was also indicated that he has not lived with Vitero for 15 years. In 2001, the journalists of The Los Angeles Times Confirmed This information in an article on the imminent birth of the mayor of San Francisco from a child from businesswoman Caroline Karpeneti, indicating that he had gone from his wife more than 20 years ago. That is, Brown broke up with his wife ten years before his novel with Harris and, judging by the media reports, no longer converged with her again.
Thus, in the mid-1990s, Harris really had an affair with a man formally marriage, but he parted with his wife long before the start of his relationship with the future vice president, so the hints that she took the man from the family, at least incorrect.
Is the video true in which Harris says: “Ukraine is a country in Europe. Does it exist next to another country called Russia ”?
July 22 Telegram channel "Uncle Glory" (175,000 views) Published The 17-second record, on which Harris says: “Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a large country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So, in fact, this is wrong. ” According to the TGSTAT service, similar posts in Telegram were in total about half a million views; Some bloggers They called it Harris speech "Reasoning at the level of primary school schoolboy."
Soon notes on this subject were released by the Russian media. “The vast knowledge of Kamaly Harris in geopolitics can be compared with the knowledge of a mentally retarded hippo, just imagine it as a president,” - Curses The publication "Ukraine.ru" is a comment by one of the Internet users. In turn, the Fifth Channel He mentioned A quote from a policy on his website in an article with the heading “The disease made itself felt? Why Kamala Harris cannot speak eloquently. ” The author of the publication suggested that the politician may suffer from aphasia - "a heavy ailment in which a person loses the ability to formulate thoughts."
The audio recording of Harris’s quote has spread on the Internet in the form of a fragment of the broadcast of the Fox News television channel, in which her words are accompanied by a slide with the heading “Vice President Harris: Ukraine is a country”, the literal text of the quote and the signature “The Morning Hustle, March 1, 2022”.
The Morning Hustle is American Podcast, offering "entertaining, humorous and informative view of the city pop culture from the point of view of millennials and generations Z." March 1, 2022, a week after the full -scale invasion of Russia to Ukraine, Harris took part in the record of one of episodes, answering the questions of the leading about the situation in Ukraine, the possible military draft in the United States and the appointment of the Chairman of the Supreme Court. Full record of that release with the participation of a politician can be found on site Podcast and him YouTube channel.
The leading podcast turned to Harris with the following request:
“If you watch news of any level, even on social networks, you saw everything that is happening now in Ukraine. Explain this in simple words for those who do not understand what is happening, and how this can directly affect the inhabitants of the United States. ”
To this, the vice-president of the United States replied:
“So, Ukraine is a country in Europe. It exists next to another country called Russia. Russia is a large country. Russia is a powerful country. Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine. So, in fact, this is wrong. And this contradicts everything that we are for. There are terms that we use - we say that we respect the sovereignty, the territorial integrity of countries, their independence. ”
That is, the recording of the truth, which was dispersed through social networks, but is deprived of the context: the US Vice President responded to the request of the leader to explain the war in Ukraine as simple as possible. However, many YouTube users Remained unhappy The words Harris-under a video with an appropriate episode of the podcast, you can find comments like “everyone’s beloved teacher of a preschool institution came to talk with everyone” or “thank you, the vice president that explained the situation in Ukraine as if we are in kindergarten”.
Over the past two and a half years, Harris Repeatedly in detail She spoke about the war in Ukraine, including during meetings with the president of this country Vladimir Zelensky.
Is it true that the Govtrack project deleted a page from his site, where Harris was called the most liberal senator of 2019?
July 25, the SVTV News publication in its Telegram channel (36,000 views) reportedthat the Govtrack project, which tracks the voting results in both wards of the US Congress, deleted a page from his site, on which in 2019 he called Harris the most liberal senator. “Five years ago, the algorithms calculated that the decisions of Senator Harris turned out to be ultra -willed: from expanding weapons control measures to co -authorship in the Medicare insurance program. <...> The former prosecutor of California knows exactly how to make tracks, ”says SVTV News.
Shortly before this is a similar statement did billionaire Ilon Musk. On his page on the social network X, he wrote: “Literally as far left as possible! They are so trying to erase the Internet, lol. " Twit the mask scored about 47 million views.
In 2019, the independent Govtrack project really called Harris the most liberal senator. Based on the results of 2019, it also said that the politician, for example, less often the other democrats joined bicopartican bills, and also entered the three leaders in the number of votes missed. Now the corresponding page on the Govtrack website Inaccessible, however Saved Archive copy.
LEAD Stories fact Turned For the commentary to the founder of Govtrack Joshua Tauberer. He explained that on July 22, not only the Harris work was removed from the site for 2019, but also Similar notes About all other congressmen. Tauberer noted:
“A few years ago, we stopped creating new annual“ reporting cards ”. We decided that limited data in one year are insufficient to create a reliable portrait of legislators ... and therefore do not serve as a useful tool for our users and the American public. Subsequently, we shot previously published annual statistics for the same reason. ”
The project website is still Available A card with the assessment of Harris for 2020, which presents an analysis of its legislative activity in the 116th convocation of Congress (2019–2021). On this page, the politician is called the left-wing senator-democrat. Among all senators, according to Govtrack, to the left was Only Bernie Sanders, not one of the two largest parties in the United States.
Thus, the allegations of Harris’s attempt to erase some publications on the Internet in order to enlist the support of moderate voters are groundless.
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